Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" sections

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On 3/25/13 9:35 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Monday, March 25, 2013 09:05 -0600 Peter Saint-Andre 
> <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/25/13 1:11 AM, Loa Andersson wrote:
>>> AB,
>>> 
>>> I've been following this first with increasing amusement, ...
>>> not!
>>> 
>>> A search on Baryun for IDs on the RFC Editors web page gives 
>>> the following result:
>>> 
>>> "o Based on your search of [Baryun] in the All Fields field 
>>> zero matches were made."
>>> 
>>> Time to terminate this "discussion"?
>> 
>> Actually the following search ...
>> 
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/search/?name=baryun&rfcs=on&a 
>> ctiveDrafts=on&oldDrafts=on&search_submit=
>> 
>> ... yields ...
>> 
>> draft-baryun-manet-technology-00 	MANET Subnet Technologies 
>> Considerations 	2012-07-30 	Expired
>> 
>> draft-baryun-manet-terminology-00 	Terminology in Mobile Ad hoc 
>> Networks  	2012-07-04 	Expired
>> 
>> draft-baryun-rfc2119-update-00 	Key Words of Conditional Language
>> of Requirements Levels 	2012-07-31 	Expired
>> 
>> draft-baryun-roll-nap-00 	The Node Ability of Participation (NAP)
>> 2012-08-01 	Expired
> 
> And, actually, this is more interesting.  I don't follow MANET or
> ROLL, but the 2119 update got some discussion on the IETF list.  If
> we think we have good ideas, most of us listen carefully to the
> discussions and then generate -01 drafts that attempt to
> incorporate the suggestions and deal with the objections.  Here,
> the documents are abandoned at -00.  The author has moved on to
> complaining about how badly the IETF and various of its WGs are
> broken instead of trying to work with the community to refine the
> ideas.
> 
> That has nothing to do with whether the particular contributions in
> MANET should be acknowledged in any particular document.  Had 
> either of the two I-Ds listed above that were addressed to that WG
> gotten traction we might be having a discussion now about who he
> would see fit to acknowledge.   But, instead, we see expired -00
> drafts and a lot of complaints.
> 
> Sad situation for all concerned.

Indeed. Thus my subtle suggestion that the original poster complete
some real technical work in the IETF community before making more
suggestions about process.

Peter

- -- 
Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/


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