Melinda,
folks in the research community (e.g., students) need some publications and
being mentioned in documents is quite important for them.
Now, I know by experience that even significant contributions to an
I-D does not guarantee you a place in the acknowledgement section.
If the authors don't like you then you don't end up there.
OR
If the authors are lazy then they just forget to add you.
In general, I find it important to list those who have spent their time with
a specification. Sometimes it appears that reviewers spend more time with
the specification than the authors.
Ciao
Hannes
-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On
Behalf Of Melinda Shore
Sent: 04 March, 2009 20:21
To: Marc Petit-Huguenin; Ned Freed
Cc: Harald Alvestrand; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Running Code
On 3/4/09 12:17 PM, "Marc Petit-Huguenin" <petithug(_at_)acm(_dot_)org> wrote:
Now, I know by experience that even significant contributions to an
I-D does not guarantee you a place in the acknowledgement section.
So what is the incentive into developing code that 1) will
probably be
obsoleted by the next version of the I-D and 2) will not be
acknowledged at all in contributing to the improvement of
the protocol?
I tend to assume people will be interested in a protocol for
some other reasons than garnering acknowledgements and
fluffing their resumes, and those other reasons will
presumably be sufficient motivation. Implementing something
will tend to be a pretty good way to find bugs,
inefficiencies, or other problems with a protocol
specification. If you're interested in kudos, take the issues
you find to the mailing list rather than directly to the author.
I'm pretty surprised by this argument.
Melinda
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