Re: [Tools-discuss] emailing authors of an RFC

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Thu, 13 June 2019 13:52 UTC

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On 2019-06-13 15:49, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2019, at 15:18, Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Let me clarify.  I wasn't trying to say that RFC author aliases wouldn't be
>> a good thing, I was questioning whether the IETF should provide these, rather
>> than the RFC Editor.
> 
> That is a valid question.
> 
> However, the IETF does have the datatracker identities, which can
> make these aliases a bit more sustainable.

Yes.  The datatracker already exports some information to the RFC Editor;
if it is deemed that the RFC Editor should own the RFC author alias email
addresses, we'd make sure they could pull the relevant information from
the datatracker.

Regards,

	Henrik