Re: Proposed ietf.org email address policy

Scott Bradner <sob@sobco.com> Mon, 14 June 2021 10:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: Proposed ietf.org email address policy
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+1

> On Jun 13, 2021, at 7:37 PM, John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> --On Sunday, 13 June, 2021 13:10 -0700 Aqua Q Glass
> <aquaqglass@gmail.com> 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/
> 
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