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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 13 June 2019 13:49 UTC

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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.

Grüße, Carsten

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