Re: [security-services] Acknowledgement lists...

["Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@sun.com>]

Hi Rob,

Philpott, Robert wrote:
> Hello Eve,
> 
> What criteria are being used to decide which contributor names appear on the
> front page of core (and the other docs)?  I couldn't remember a decision on
> this and a quick scan of the minutes didn't help - did we just agree to
> leave it up to the editors?  
> 
> I think I was busy with another issue when this was discussed so I wasn't
> paying close attention. I previously missed Jeff's response (9-Apr) to your
> mail re: handling acknowledgements. I don't recall the specifics being
> discussed on the call, so I was caught by surprise when I saw the final
> result in core.  I liked the format used in core-32, although Jeff's
> suggestion is fine with me also.  I am just curious about the selection
> process.

I pretty much left it up to the individual editors' discretion.  Jeff's 
recommendation was "folks who've participated in specifying prose and/or 
schema that's been reflected in the docs".  The actual process for 
executing the new plan was a little haphazard, which was my fault; sorry 
about that.

> Both the front list and the TC list in the back describe "contributors" or
> people who made "contributions" so this seems ambiguous.  Are the front page
> contributors those that contributed text or provided key concepts and ideas?
> One could argue that most of the TC members were "contributors", although
> not all were "authors".  I just wondered where the line was drawn.  The
> mechanism used in XML-DSig referenced by Jeff doesn't have the same
> ambiguity.

Jeff's formulation resulted (I hope) in people who actually contributed 
content directly being listed on page 1, and people who were voting 
members of the TC being listed in the appendix.  I reused Phill's 
"thanks for the contributions" appendix wording because it seemed nicer 
than just saying "these people were on the group".

If there are people missing from page 1 in any case, we can easily fix 
those in editorial updates.

	Eve
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