Re: The RFC Acknowledgement

[Eric Burger <[e-mail]>]

Abduussalam -
You probably have seen many responses to your message talking about who goes into the Acknowledgements section. However, I am not sure your original question was answered.

In short, it is the document editor that puts the acknowledgments section in. In most cases it will be obvious who gets listed there. That is the substance of the other messages on this thread.  In rare cases a work group chair may get involved.

As you are new, if you are a document editor, you can always ask your work group chair for guidance. Conversely, if you feel you should be in an acknowledgements section for your contributions, feel free to talk with the document editor (first) and work group chair (second)
- Eric

On Feb 8, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Abdussalam Baryun <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I am wondering how author/ietf-editor fill in the acknowledgement
> section in the RFCs or I-Ds. Does it make sense in IETF, or left for
> author opinion? I am getting requests from IETF WGs, IESG, and IAB for
> comments. My question is do you *make acknowledgements* in I-Ds or
> just *take comments* for I-Ds?
> 
> IMO we get last call request for comments because RFC production is
> all about getting volunteering comments from Internet community to
> make I-Ds better, so does all I-Ds acknowledge (ACK) to any input
> comment before the last call and after or it is only before last
> call?, and if it gets submitted to IESG/IAB, and we comment does that
> have no ACK in I-D?
> 
> I sometimes feel discouraged to participate in any world work if the
> process does not involve my existance, just used with ignoring ACK of
> the reviewers. IMO any comment has value to the authors (e.g. some
> think only experts' comments are important to ACK) and to IETF,
> otherwise, we may delete valuable ACKs in IETF, which is not right.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> AB
> A participant that still did not complete a year working for IETF, but
> trying to continue :)