On Mar 24, 2013, at 7:42 AM, Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambaryun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You mean the editors of this draft (I will note them as not
> acknowledging participants, for my future review). I am a MANET WG
> participants, but if you mention the names that made efforts it is
> more true because many are MANET participants and never send a
> comment. Please note that IETF mentioned, Request For Comments= RFC. I
> commented on the draft, and will only continue commenting on drafts
> that are edited and monitored by acknowledging IETF participants.
> ...
It is non-sensical to expect document editors to track and list everybody
who had input on a given draft, particularly when one considers the volume
of comments received on many of the mailing lists and working groups.
The "Acknowledgements section" has a long tradition of listing those folks
who provided substantial contributions to the document, and often has all
others by reference in a "members of the Foo working group" mention in that
section.
In my opinion, it would be a shame for any IETF energies to be diverted for
the purposes of second-guessing the good faith efforts of document editors
by revisiting this tradition where we already have successful running code.
/John
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