Yes, that would make the acknowledgements the most interesting part of the
hypothetical document to read. Kind of like reading between the non-existing
lines of the "FOO working group has terminated" announcement...
Henning
On Oct 20, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Adrian Farrel
<adrian(_at_)olddog(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
Henning,
Can Carol also add "Carol thinks this is a pretty dumb idea, but since it is
mostly harmless and there is some support from people in the FOO working group
and no sustained objection she did not block its publication"?
Adrian
I see no problem with a one
sentence addition in the acknowledgements section along the lines of "This
document is a product of the FOO working group, chaired by Alice and Bob,
within the BAR area, with Carol as the responsible area director.", with a
suitable
free-form recognition ("Only their periodic public floggings of the authors
caused
this document to be finished.") added as relevant. The working group is often
mentioned already, as far as I can tell.