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Re: [rfc-i] acknowledging reviewers name in RFCs

Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> Thu, 30 May 2019 20:47 UTC

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On 5/30/19 3:06 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> I wrote this back on May 8, but I don't see it in the archives via IMAP.
> A recent change to spam filtering means I've fallen off many lists, so I am
> reposting.   I had CC'ed this to IESG.  It seems I emailed
> rfc-interest@ietf.org, which was wrong, even though it's all hosted on ietf servers.
> 
> Benjamin wrote an email email to tools-discuss awhile ago about how to find
> who did a review reminded me of some things that I'd like to have in
> published RFCs. I believe that it will help with getting more non-authoring
> volunteers into our process if we more publically and formally acknowledge them.
> 
> I'd like to have a standard way to show who was:
>   1) WG chair and AD stick-handling of a document.
>   2) Document Shepherd
>   3) Area reviews, and detailed individual reviews
> 
> While many authors put many of these things into Acknowledgements, it's not
> in a standard format, and it's not easily pulled out in the XML.
> (Such as by Jari's scripts)

Please keep in mind that some people are very concerned with being 
mentioned. If this isn't well defined they may try to game the system. 
Thoroughness of reviews varies widely. I don't know how to draw a line 
regarding what is sufficient to get a reference.

	Thanks,
	Paul

> I know that overall RFC version 3 format is done in RFC7991.
> I looked through 7991, wondering if there is a way to do this simply, but
> my naive eyes don't see anything that can be abused or extended.
> It seems like we want to have additional "author"-like sections in the
> <back>.  It seems that we would need a new section equivalent to references.
> 
> But, before offering a specific solution, I'd like to find out how we would
> get consensus that this is a correct thing to do.  rfc-interest is not a wG.
> Yes, I can write an Internet Draft, and having a clear problem statment is
> probably a good thing.
> I'm not sure who would approve: would it be the IESG/GenAD?
> 
> 
> --
> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
>   -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
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