--On Friday, June 11, 2021 16:35 +1000 Lloyd W <lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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, Prior experience with people being allowed to set up IETF-provided mailing lists for discussions that seemed rather far out on the edges of IETF work, deliberate misrepresentations of Informational RFCs or even I-Ds as IETF standards, etc., suggests that it would be a small jump from troll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (and what is a "Member" or the IETF anyway?), disrupter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, or even nutcase@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from even worse misrepresentations about positions and authority. So I think this idea goes into the "proceed carefully and be careful what you wish for" category even if not in the "just plain bad idea" one. best, john
