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Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> Fri, 11 June 2021 19:52 UTC

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:51:56 -0500
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Subject: RFC793#ietf.org (was: Re: Proposed ietf.org email address policy)
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Following up on one point ...

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:31 PM Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
wrote:

>
> I know we have draft-xxx@ietf.org aliases, and those can get updated via
> the
> DT, I'm unclear if I can email rfcxxxx@ietf.org to reach the authors, and
> that's not what's listed in the RFC.
>

I just made sure - I sent to the address that would be my most recent RFC,
and got back "550 5.1.1 <rfc8462@ietf.org>: Recipient address rejected:
User unknown in virtual alias table".

So, that's a "nope".

The minor question is that I'd expect such addresses to be
RFC793@rfc-editor.org(*) addresses, but let's ignore that for now.

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

So it would be good to figure out what the objective would be - to find
someone who might still be knowledgeable about the topic of the RFC, or
still caring about the topic of the RFC, or still reading e-mail, or what,
exactly?

One objective might be to find someone who "is responsible for" the RFC -
I was chasing down who was responsible for the work produced by a concluded
WG, literally "yesterday", so that objective seems worthy, but I'm sure
there are others.

Best,

Spencer

(*) Yes, I chose one of Jon Postel's RFCs on purpose ... 😢

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