Re: [art] Alia Atlas' No Objection on draft-ietf-appsawg-mdn-3798bis-15: (with COMMENT)

On 11/29/16 3:47 PM, Ben Campbell wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2016, at 17:43, Ben Campbell wrote:
>
>> On 29 Nov 2016, at 17:40, Barry Leiba wrote:
>>
>>>> Should the Media-Type registration go to the authors of the draft, as
>>>> specified, or instead to the appsawg & eventually defaulting to the
>>>> IESG?
>>>
>>> We're inconsistent about whether we do or don't like having individual
>>> contributors as contact points for these things.  I'm one of those who
>>> don't like it, preferring a (relatively speaking) stable address over
>>> an individual who may change jobs (and thus change email addresses),
>>> leave IETF work, retire, die, whatever.
>>>
>>> For my part, I'd prefer to stop using individuals as contact points
>>> for registrations that come from working groups or areas, and always
>>> use a working-group or area mailing list.
>>
>> I agree with Barry in general, though I don't have a strong opinion
>> one way or another for this particular document.
>
> Oops, I meant to go on to say that I prefer not to use mailing lists
> that don't already have some reason to live mostly forever--At least
> without making it clear that the contact may change over time.
speaking as the one-time culler of mailing lists. we used to have quite
a few that  had zero traffic for years, I don't thing there's much more
assurance that an official mailing list is manned then an email address.

joel
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Re: [art] Alia Atlas' No Objection on draft-ietf-appsawg-mdn-3798bis-15: (with COMMENT)

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