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

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

>> > 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.
>
> 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.

It wouldn't make a difference for me, though for other ADs who work
differently, it might.  For my part, when I get messages about
documents that "belong" to another AD, I usually delete them.  I might
take a quick look, but I might not.  If we re-shuffled things and I
took over that working group later, the mail I got earlier because I
was on the "docname-ad" alias wouldn't help give me context, because I
didn't pay enough attention to it for that.

Barry