On 2/8/13 6:55 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
Remembering that we've managed to get ourselves into a situation
in which there is a IPR policy-based requirement for some
acknowledgements, do we really need to debate this topic rather
than saying "author/editor discretion as long as the author or
editor is sensitive to requests for inclusion or exclusion and
to the IPR policy requirements about substantive Contributions".
That's my sense as well, and I think it makes a lot of sense
in terms of process/overhead to just leave it up to the
discretion of chairs and editors. The notion of acknowledging every
single person who stepped up to the mic and made any comment, or
who posted to a mailing list, seems a bit over-the-top to me.
Melinda