-1. I can't think of a single instance I which this would be useful to me unless I were I recruiting mode. I'd ask if this is meant to be a document that's useful when published or more of a digital tombstone ala Who's Who type books. I.e., who is the target audience and why? I don't think this passes even a modest cost benefits analysis. Mike Sent from Comcast mobile -----Original Message----- From: John C Klensin To: barryleiba Cc: ietf Sent: October 17, 2013, 15:53 Subject: Re: Proper credit for work done -- on finding chairs (was CHANGE THE JOB) I had promised I was through for today, but I just had a wild, crazy, suggestion that follows on the retirement of the xx99 and xx00 subseries of RFCs. 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 functionaries, probably including document reviewers and Nomcom members. It would provide both a snapshot of what has been going on and who has been contributing to keeping the process working that is more permanent/ archival and accessible than a collection of web pages. It would also provide a type of formally-published acknowledgement for those sorts of work to which people and their organizations could point. It might have rather high payoff in comparison to the cost of the bits. And I'd think that most of the data could be pulled out of existing sources with a few tools and a little secretariat effort (i.e., little or no additional work for ADs). Or maybe I'm missing a serious downside. best, john