Re: [Tools-discuss] tooling: Change of address Q.

On 5/27/21 9:51 AM, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> Ah, ok...
>
> Algo sounds ok.  Thanks for explaining.
>
> I think the last collaborators where i had the problem might not have/had
> datatracker accounts. Luckily th next one will be fine then wrt to this issue.
>
>
> Guess there is still the problem of one not being able to update one's
> own draft without help from others after having changed affiliations and
> hence not being able to validate the dataracker upload approval email
> on the old email. Or is there an algo for that as well ?

If you can still log into the datatracker, you can add new email 
addresses for yourself, and leave others either marked as active, or 
inactive, and those addresses will be recognized as you during submission.

RjS

>
> Cheers
>      Toerless
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 03:11:45PM -0500, Robert Sparks wrote:
>> The draft-<foo>*@ietf.org and <acronym>-chairs@ietf.org aliases are
>> regenerated on-demand, or with a high refresh rate (hourly).
>>
>> If the collaborator changes their preferred email address in the
>> datatracker, it will be used in all of those aliases after the next
>> generation.
>>
>> RjS
>>
>> On 5/26/21 12:50 PM, Toerless Eckert wrote:
>>> So, i run repeatedly into the problem of co-authors or just
>>> contributors to my WG changing association/email-address, and i am
>>> right now not 100% sure about the BCP how they should deal with it.
>>>
>>> So, https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/ietf/<email address>
>>> and global change is clearly part of the BCP.
>>>
>>> But in my past experience, it seems that this will not change the email
>>> addresses of the collaborator on draft-ietf-wg-whatever. And i don't
>>> even know if/how there is a way to change those email addresses. Is there
>>> any tool for WG chairs or the contributor themselves to bulk change
>>> the email adress on those draft aliases ? (even a single draft has
>>> quite a few aliases created).
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>       Toerless
>>>
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