- From: <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:50:33 +0000
- To: <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- CC: <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>, <w3c@marcosc.com>, <chaals@opera.com>, <chairs@w3.org>, <spec-prod@w3.org>
+1, we should credit authors and editors for their work. regards, Frederick Frederick Hirsch Nokia On Dec 13, 2011, at 2:08 AM, ext Martin J. Dürst wrote: > On 2011/12/13 2:12, Marcos Caceres wrote: > >> I agree, particularly with everything Julian said in responding to this thread. I think the right thing to do is to do both: include references separated by normative and informative, but I still don't see any use case for including the author, date, or organization that produced the document. > > Well, re. organization, I want to know whether it's from the W3C, IETF, ISO, IEEE, or any of the many other organizations out there. Don't you? > > Re. date, I want to know when this was done. It helps understand whether this may be established technology or brand new, whether I have the right version, and so on. > > Re. authors/editors, I want to know who did all the hard work to write the document. I want to see the people behind the specs. > > And these informations are just standard in references of all shapes and forms, and it would be very confusing to leave them out. > > Regards, Martin. >
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