Re: [security-services] CD acknowledgment

["Eve L. Maler" <Eve.Maler@Sun.COM>]

Steve Anderson can supply a list of TC members on any arbitrary day 
-- he's a magician at this. :-)  I hadn't thought about implications 
for the new templates, but our policy had been to list only editors 
(people who directly touched the document) and contributors (people 
who supplied text or did significant reviews) on the title page. 
OASIS has a rule that only OASIS members can be listed on the title 
page, so anyone in these two camps who isn't a member (e.g. because 
they dropped halfway through the release cycle) can be listed in the 
Acknowledgments appendix.  Our policy has been to first list all TC 
members as a courtesy, and then others.

The Approved Errata doc is an example of this, where Jahan left the 
group but, of course, was a huge contributor to all the errata work.

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22894/sstc-saml-approved-errata-2.0-cd-01.html#3.References|outline

	Eve

Tom Scavo wrote:
> On 6/6/07, Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu> wrote:
>> Tom Scavo wrote:
>> > In the appendix of a CD I'm working on right now, it says
>> >
>> > "The editors would like to acknowledge the contributions of the OASIS
>> > Security Services Technical Committee, whose voting members at the
>> > time of publication were..."
>> >
>> > However, in a template I recently pulled down from the OASIS web site,
>> > it says
>> >
>> > "The following individuals have participated in the creation of this
>> > specification and are gratefully acknowledged..."
>> >
>> > I assume the latter is the preferred text (correct?),
>>
>> It's up to each TC, I believe, and the TC's position has been to just
>> list the voting members and not worry about it.
> 
> The voting members at the time the CD attained CD status?  That
> doesn't seem all inclusive since members fall off and on the voting
> member list all the time, but if that's the procedure, okay.
> 
>> We list explicit editors
>> and material contributors up at the top, I think.
> 
> There is no "Contributors" list on the front page of the official
> template, so I acknowledged a special contributor in the appendix in a
> previous CD.  I see that Paul did same thing with the Tech Overview,
> so I think I'll do that here for consistency.
> 
>>  > but in any case,
>> > how do I determine the precise list of names and affiliations to
>> > include in this appendix?  FYI, this CD was voted to CD status and
>> > Public Review at the last SSTC meeting (Jun 4).
>>
>> Use Kavi and you can get a list of the membership, and then you just
>> include anybody with an Office position or Voting status.
> 
> Okay, I'll try that, thanks.
> 
> Tom
> 

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