Acknowlegment glitch

I believe that the following sentence in the acknowledgments sections  
of our document is inappropriate:

"""This document is the product of the OWL Working Group (see below)  
whose members deserve recognition for their time and commitment."""

I don't recall ever seeing such a statement in an acknowledgments.  
Isn't the actually acknowledgement sufficient?

See:
	http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#ack

""'This document reflects the joint effort of the members of the RDF  
Core Working Group. Particular contributions were made by Jeremy  
Carroll, Dan Connolly, Jan Grant, R. V. Guha, Graham Klyne, Ora  
Lassilla, Brian McBride, Sergey Melnick, Jos deRoo and Patrick  
Stickler."""

	http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
"""This document is the result of extensive discussions within the  
Web Ontology Working Group as a whole. The participants in this  
Working Group included:"""



	http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Acknowledgements

"""This specification was developed and approved for publication by  
the W3C XSL Working Group (WG). WG approval of this specification  
does not necessarily imply that all WG members voted for its  
approval. The current members of the XSL WG are:"""

Why do we need to *say* that we deserve recognition just before  
giving that recognition? Seems a bit self-praising.

Cheers,
Bijan.

Received on Tuesday, 31 March 2009 11:23:37 UTC