>What is the purpose? >What would be the implication? If you go back to my original message on this topic, the issue was that in many organizations, for better or worse, they measure your productivity by the amount of author credit you get, which is why we see scientific papers with 50 or more co-authors. So if more author credit to WG chairs and ADs would help them persuade their management or tenure committee or whatever that they've been doing work that is worth supporting, we should give more author credit. If we think this would help, my inclination would be to put them in the author list, and if we have a big ugly author list that runs halfway down the page, so what? R's, John PS: In case it's not obvious, the document format is a nit. The issue is what will help people get funding for key IETF jobs. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Chen Request for Comments: 6829 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd Updates: 4379 P. Pan Category: Standards Track Infinera ISSN: 2070-1721 C. Pignataro R. Asati Cisco A. Farrel (AD) Juniper L. Andersson (WGC) Huawei