On 3/4/09 12:17 PM, "Marc Petit-Huguenin" <[email protected]> wrote: > Now, I know by experience that even significant contributions to an > I-D does not guarantee you a place in the acknowledgement section. > So what is the incentive into developing code that 1) will probably > be obsoleted by the next version of the I-D and 2) will not be > acknowledged at all in contributing to the improvement of the protocol?
I tend to assume people will be interested in a protocol for some other reasons than garnering acknowledgements and fluffing their resumes, and those other reasons will presumably be sufficient motivation. Implementing something will tend to be a pretty good way to find bugs, inefficiencies, or other problems with a protocol specification. If you're interested in kudos, take the issues you find to the mailing list rather than directly to the author. I'm pretty surprised by this argument. Melinda _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
