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
