Re: Proposed ietf.org email address policy

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Sunday, 13 June, 2021 13:10 -0700 Aqua Q Glass
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> a metadata ammendment towards the [RFC,documents] which
> supersede prior art, as denoted and approved with new
> documents, will provide hypertext and dedupe questions.. and
> additionally a place for IETF to maintain FAQs around
> relatable RFCs, online vs. adhoc email, and with authenticity.

It turns out to be not quite that easy, especially if one tries
to avoid making other significant changes.  This is, however,
exactly the territory that NEWTRK [1] starting about 2004 and
running through 2006 or so, with periodic attempts to restart or
build on that work.

While I believe that, after nearly 15 years, it is time to look
at these questions again, I don't believe anyone who was heavily
involved in that original effort would recommend initiating a
follow-up effort (or a completely new one with similar goals)
unless it was clear that the IESG was prepared to accept and
process whatever conclusions and consensus that WG managed to
reach.

Happy reading.
   john


[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/newtrk/about/