Abusallam, if you want namecheck credit on an internet draft, may I suggest simply writing an internet draft yourself? (I would also recommend leaving writing drafts until after a PhD is complete; for the PhD, it's academic papers that matter.) Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ _____________________________________ From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Abdussalam Baryun [abdussalambaryun@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 25 March 2013 06:02 To: melinda.shore Cc: ietf Subject: Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" sections Hi Melinda I like what we have so far, but are those connected processes/information reflected into the produced document? Why ignoring names of volunteers? I suggest to fix this, AB +++++++++++++ We have the mailing list archives, we've got the document shepherd writeups, we've got the IESG evaluation record, we've got the IESG writeups, we've got meeting minutes, we've got jabber session archives, we've got audio recordings of meetings, and we've got the document history. Melinda >> So when I read a RFC I may go through the document process and its >> draft versions, while going through the drafts related I see >> acknowledged names so I may find the input on the list for such name. >> In this way we have connections between inputs otherwise the IETF >> system has no connection between its important information. >> >> AB >> >