I say go with the blanket acknowledement.
stu
Dave Morris writes:
> It wasn't difficult for me to verify that the list was incomplete
> and on refelection that several other active contributors are missing.
> So my feeling is that it would be better to not list the whole
> working group but rather just acknowledge the group.
> 
> How about:
> 
>    Special thanks to the many active participants in the HTML
>    working group, too numerous to list individually, without
>    whom there would be no standards process and no standard.
>    That this document approaches its objective of carefully
>    converging a description of current practice and formalization
>    of HTML's relationship to SGML is a tribute to their
>    effort.