Re: Corporate email attachment filters and IETF emails

[Robert Moskowitz <[e-mail]>]

IETF Member Dave Aronson wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>   
>> ALL my IETF mailing lists come to email accounts that I control on my own
>> mail server. but....
>>
>> I recently submitted my first Internet Draft since my company was bought by
>> a BIG TELCO, and it has BIG email filtering rules.  In large part these
>> rules were developed by my colleagues in the other part of my company that
>> was bought by the BIG TELCO.
>>
>> But the short of it is that only a small selection of email attachments are
>> let through and otherwise the email is dropped silently.  Thus the email for
>> validating an ID submission never got to my corporate email account.
>>     
>
> Maybe you could point out to The Powers That Be, that if they want any
> glory for their company for your work in helping shape the future of
> Teh Intarwebs, their silly mail rules are interfering.  Don't expect
> them to change their rules, just point out that you have a perfectly
> valid reason not to use a company email addy, for this sort of work.
>
> Meanwhile, use one of your personal addresses.  That's probably more
> permanent anyway; even if you don't leave the company, as you've seen,
> companies get bought.  The new owner doesn't always maintain the email
> processing for the old name(s).  Getting your own domain (or multiple)
> is generally your best bet.
>
> -Dave (owner of davearonson.com for mainly that reason, and a few others)

I have had htt-consult.com since '95.  I have wanted htt.com, but it was 
already taken by some guy in Spain.

Old email addresses has always been a problem here.  My email in RFC 
1918 has not worked for almost 12 years.

I also have an IANA enterprise number:  6715 that I actually used a 
couple times for some X.509 attribute work...