Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" sections

"Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com> Mon, 25 March 2013 02:23 UTC

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I think I at least partly disagree.  The acknowledgements section of 
RFCs was not, and to the best of my knowledge is not, concerned with 
capturing the history of where specific changes or ideas came from.  It 
ought to be concerned with giving credit to folks who made particularly 
large, but not authorship level, contributions to the document.

I have seen I-Ds which included change logs which made an effort to 
capture the major changes to a document and their cause.  these were, at 
best, ungainly.  And are, as far as I know, always removed before 
publicaiton as an RFC.

Yours,
Joel

On 3/24/2013 8:55 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote:
>   Just to make things clear that the intention of documents
> acknowledging is to reflect the truth of any document process and
> connect information or resources. IMHO, it is not the purpose to show
> credit to any person including authors, it is to show how changes were
> developed and show true document-history.
>
>   So when I read a RFC I may go through the document process and its
> draft versions, while going through the drafts related I see
> acknowledged names so I may find the input on the list for such name.
> In this way we have connections between inputs otherwise the IETF
> system has no connection between its important information.
>
> AB
>

"Acknowledgements" vs new Contributions section. Hector Santos
Re: [manet] New Version Notification for draft-ie… Abdussalam Baryun
Re: [manet] New Version Notification for draft-ie… Jiazi Yi
Re: [manet] New Version Notification for draft-ie… Abdussalam Baryun
On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" sectio… John Curran
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… David Morris
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… SM
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Abdussalam Baryun
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Abdussalam Baryun
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Melinda Shore
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Melinda Shore
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Joel M. Halpern
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Paul Hoffman
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Glen Zorn
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Fernando Gont
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Abdussalam Baryun
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Melinda Shore
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… John Curran
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Abdussalam Baryun
RE: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… l.wood
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Abdussalam Baryun
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Abdussalam Baryun
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Melinda Shore
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Loa Andersson
It's a personal statement (Re: On the tradition o… Carsten Bormann
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Brian E Carpenter
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… SM
Re: [manet] New Version Notification for draft-ie… Jiazi Yi
Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the traditi… Abdussalam Baryun
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Arturo Servin
Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the traditi… Paul Hoffman
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Peter Saint-Andre
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… John C Klensin
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Dave Crocker
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… John C Klensin
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Scott Kitterman
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Dave Crocker
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Abdussalam Baryun
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Scott Brim
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Melinda Shore
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Joe Abley
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Elwyn Davies
Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the traditi… Hector Santos
Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the traditi… Carsten Bormann
Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the traditi… Joel M. Halpern
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… John C Klensin
Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the traditi… Dave Crocker
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Sam Hartman
Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the traditi… Sam Hartman
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Hector Santos
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… t.p.
RE: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… l.wood
Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the traditi… Donald Eastlake
RE: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… l.wood
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… joel jaeggli
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Ulrich Herberg
RE: It's a personal statement (Re: On the traditi… l.wood
Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the traditi… Stephen Farrell
Re: [IETF] Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On … Warren Kumari
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Peter Saint-Andre
Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" se… Keith Moore