Re: How IETF treats contributors

grenville armitage <garmitage@swin.edu.au> Sat, 04 September 2004 18:45 UTC

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Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
	[..]
> If we want bright young
> people to put work into standards, it is appropriate to give credit for
> that work.  Writing a good standard, and building a consensus around
> it, is a challenging set of tasks that requires a combination of
> technical and political skills that are all too rare, and sometimes
> hard to recognize.

Agreed.

cheers,
gja
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Grenville Armitage
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