-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >I wonder if we should be publishing, at regular intervals, RFCs >with explicit acknowledgements and maybe contact information for >Areas and ADs, WG Chairs, and, if appropriate, other IETF ... I don't think it would solve the problem. If your boss, or your tenure committee, or your salary review committee is inclined to count IETF work, they're going to look at how many documents have your name as author. I very much doubt that explanations that being mentioned in RFC9900 as a WG chair or reviewer is just as good, even if true, will help much. In areas of scientific research where large teams do the work, it's common to have papers with 50 or more co-authors, probably for exactly this reason. I realize we have a tradition of only five authors on an RFC, but I've never seen a reason beyond that the first page looks ugly if there's a long author list. If more author credit will help people persuade the powers that be that spending time on IETF work is worth it, we should give more author credit, no matter how ugly those first pages look*, to anyone who provided signficant text or othewise provided some significant part of the document's contents. If the AD provides oversight and direction, that includes the AD. It's no worse than listing a professor as a co-author of all of her students' papers. R's, John * - although I expect some twiddles to xml2rfc might help -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlJgkA8ACgkQkEiFRdeC/kU/UQCfca2w7bOlZlh5oZeHZYCyZhQc TcUAnitXOHCJJlvYObUJe5ttr5hj0MVq =nihW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----