Yes, that would make the acknowledgements the most interesting part of the hypothetical document to read. Kind of like reading between the non-existing lines of the "FOO working group has terminated" announcement...
Henning
On Oct 20, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Adrian Farrel <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Henning,
>
> Can Carol also add "Carol thinks this is a pretty dumb idea, but since it is
> mostly harmless and there is some support from people in the FOO working group
> and no sustained objection she did not block its publication"?
>
> Adrian
>
>> I see no problem with a one
>> sentence addition in the acknowledgements section along the lines of "This
>> document is a product of the FOO working group, chaired by Alice and Bob,
>> within the BAR area, with Carol as the responsible area director.", with a
> suitable
>> free-form recognition ("Only their periodic public floggings of the authors
> caused
>> this document to be finished.") added as relevant. The working group is often
>> mentioned already, as far as I can tell.
>
>