RE: How IETF treats contributors

> >     9. Acknowledgements
> >
> >        Variations on the idea of using a DNS record to check the
> > legitimacy
> >        of an email address have occurred multiple times. The earliest
> > known
> >        work is [Vixie]; others include [RMX], [SPF] and [CallerID].
> >
> >        The current document borrows heavily from each of the above,
> and
> >        incorporates ideas proposed by many members of the MARID
> working
> >       group.  The contributions of each of the above are gratefully
> >       acknowledged.

> Ted,

> My personal practice, when writing such acknowledgement sections, is to
> write down the names of the individuals who contributed the idea, or
> contributed significant comments to a draft.

> It is true that if one follows references such as [RMX] one eventually
> find the list of authors of the proposal, but they are still at least
> one level of indirection away. The MARID draft could just as well say
> something like "The earliest work was submitted to the IETF by Paul
> Vixie [Vixie]; others include ..." ASCII bits are cheap.

This would be a very reasonable thing to do IMO.

				Ned

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