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

["Ben Campbell" <[e-mail]>]

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.