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Re: [Tools-discuss] Draft email aliases aren't forever

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Wed, 11 May 2022 14:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Draft email aliases aren't forever
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Martin:
> 
> I just tried mailing the authors of an expired draft using the draft-...@ietf.org alias.  The mail bounced.
> 
> What sort of guarantees exist for these email aliases?  The name of a draft is forever, so I'd suggest that it makes sense for the aliases to be kept indefinitely also.
> 
> Or is this an important part of maintaining the fiction that drafts expire?

People change their email addresses.  Sometimes people stop participating in the IETF, so the datatracker does not know a working email address any more.

Anyway, the amount of time that these alias continue to work is really an IESG policy decision.  Currently they work for six months after I-D expiration.

Russ

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