There is no fixed position for a Contributors
section or an Acknowledgments section within the body of the RFC. If
they appear, they must appear later than the Abstract section and
earlier than the Author's Address section.
It seems to me that these sections are most often at the end, just
prior to the Author's Address. I'd like to see some recommendation
to continue this, or at least acknowledge it as common practice,
because I think it would detract from most documents to have such
sections appear early.
At 5:58 PM -0400 5/20/02, The IESG wrote:
The RFC Editor and the IESG have not yet decided whether this document
will be published separately or as part of a revision of
draft-rfc-editor-rfc2223bis-02.txt (itself a revision of RFC 2223), but
wish to gauge the IETF consensus on this specific issue.
I think this is more properly a part of the instructions to RFC
editors, but I can see why people may want it to be its own document
-- to highlight it and address a timely issue.