Re: lots of dead addresses, was RFC793#ietf.org (was: Re: Proposed ietf.org email address policy)

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 11 June 2021 21:10 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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It appears that Spencer Dawkins at IETF  <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> said:
>We might be able to pull this off, going forward, but we're doing AUTH48 on
>drafts in the 9040 range now. I'd bet that there are a *lot *of past
>authors who aren't reachable at an email address that the RFC Editor knows
>about for a variety of reasons

No kidding.  Every month I mail a survey to authors and document shepherds of RFCs published
the previous month.  The author addreses are taken from the XML, the shepherds from the Datatracker.
Every month a few of the messages bounce because the addresses are bad, even though they presumably
worked less than a month ago.

I suppose we could try and keep a voluntary address change database, perhaps starting with
the collecion of addresses in the datatracker but I have little confidence it would be updated
reliably enough to be useful.