Has the IESG considered renting out @member.ietf.org or @supporter.ietf.org addresses as a potential revenue stream? Throw in a free github account to sweeten the deal and so that access to discussion is not unnecessarily limited. Lloyd Wood lloyd.wood@xxxxxxxxxxx At last, I'll be able to hide the shame of using a yahoo address. > On 11 Jun 2021, at 03:53, IETF Chair <chair@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We are proposing a policy regarding the allocation of individual > administrative email addresses in the ietf.org domain. The proposal > was motivated by a few community members that raised the concern that > continued allocation of individual email addresses under ietf.org > could at some point create collisions for IETF mailing lists. > > Historically, the only email addresses created under the ietf.org > domain were for IETF-associated mailing lists, e.g., for working > groups, the IESG, directorates, etc., for aliases for certain roles, > e.g., chair@xxxxxxxx, or for administrative purposes, e.g., > support@xxxxxxxx. This was not the result of following any explicit > allocation policy, it just happened that way. > > This expanded slightly a number of years ago, on an ad hoc basis, and > now a few individuals - all of them IETF LLC employees - have work > email addresses under ietf.org. > > Therefore, the IESG and LLC Board are considering formalizing a policy > concerning ietf.org email addresses: > > * new email addresses for general and administrative roles under > ietf.org must be chosen to avoid conflicts with potential IETF > mailing list names > > * the IESG must be consulted before any new email addresses under > ietf.org are created and will have the sole responsibility for > approving and managing addresses under ietf.org > > * new individual email addresses for LLC personnel will be allocated > under a new staff.ietf.org subdomain, with the LLC being solely > responsible for the approval and management of those addresses > > * existing individual email addresses under ietf.org at the time the > policy goes into effect will continue to receive email, which will > be forwarded to new staff.ietf.org subdomain addresses; and > outbound mail should be preferably be sent from staff.ietf.org > addresses or role-based ietf.org addresses > > We invite the community to send feedback on this proposed policy to > admin-discuss@xxxxxxxx by 24 June 2021. > > Lars Eggert > IETF Chair > > Jason Livingood > Chair, IETF LLC Board >
