On 4/24/2015 7:43 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: > Also, to the extent the current effort cares about prior treatments of > the question of author vs. editor, please take a look at a rather more > recent bit of text that went through IETF approval: > > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7221#section-3 I should also have pointed people to: WG Guidelines & Procedures https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crocker-rfc2418bis-wgguidelines-00 including roughly the latter half of: 2. Basic Structure and Requirements https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crocker-rfc2418bis-wgguidelines-00#section-2 and all of: 6. Staff Roles https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crocker-rfc2418bis-wgguidelines-00#section-6 FWIW, a simple change that we could institute without any fanfare is some conventions for citing in the Acknowledgements section people who filled particular roles, in the development process. Chair, Secretary, whatever. Arguably we've been highly remiss in not doing this all along. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net