Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] First look: Improved email handling in the datatracker

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Barry,

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Alvaro Retana (aretana) <[e-mail]>
wrote:

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> > On Aug 31, 2015, at 5:51 PM, Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>
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> > 3. A question I've always had is whether it makes sense for a
> > document's "ad" alias to include all ADs in the area, rather than just
> > the responsible AD.  I can see occasions when one would want to alert
> > all ADs in the area, but in the vast majority of situations, I think
> > we want only the responsible AD.
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> I agree with that.


I've had that question, too. I think it's worth discussing.

Normally, we'd want the responsible AD, but when we have the responsible AD
who isn't available, the other AD(s) in the area probably do benefit from
having context.

The longest period of unavailability I've seen recently was when Wes Eddy
stepped down at the first IETF in 2013, and I wasn't named as his
replacement for a couple of months, and that gap could have been longer.
I'd guess Martin benefited from from not starting at zero with Wes's
working groups during that time.

You, and the other ADs serving at the time, would know more about that than
I do, of course.

(And when Martin gets back from vacation in a week or two, we can ask him
:-)

There may have been longer periods; I just don't know.

But, worth discussing.

Spencer


> Alvaro
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