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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 13 June 2019 06:39 UTC

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On Jun 12, 2019, at 22:14, Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> wrote:
> 
>> Do we have author aliases for RFCs?  Maybe we don't.
> 
> No.  Not sure if we should.

Yes, we should.  (See the discussion over at 
Archived-At: ⁨<https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/anima/sfev_MdLg-cgZTVFxE8jl3SQCIo>⁩
for an example why this would be a good idea.)

The draft-ietf-*@ietf.org aliases have been serving as a stand-in for the missing RFC author set aliases.  I for one was not aware that these are now being deleted automatically, which makes plugging the RFC author alias hole more important.

(Yes, authors of RFCs for wildly successful [RFC5218] protocols may want to have a way to opt out.  Instead of deleting an alias and causing a non-delivery message, a helpful piece of information how the IETF works and how to reach out to the WG or any successor would be useful for those.)

Grüße, Carsten

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