Sounds like an argument for having WG/mailing-list info in or near the Authors Address section. Thanks, Donald On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, John Stracke wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:24:28 -0500 > From: John Stracke <jstracke@centive.com> > To: ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: Network Working Group > > Donald Eastlake 3rd wrote: > > >I sometimes put the working group name on drafts also. But an RFC is > >never issued by a working group. It is issued by the I* after IESG > >review and usually after IETF Last Call. I'm dubious about putting the > >WG name in the RFC but if that were done, > > As a practical matter, if one wants to find people to discuss an RFC > with, knowing what WG it came from (if any) can save steps. The > authors' addresses are included, of course, but those sometimes go stale > before the WG closes down.