The solution to this self-limitation problem [1], if the Internet MUST be the only communication path used by someone, is to use IETF web forms that go directly to the server. Anyone can access the web forms and submit their communication to the relevant persons/WGs. If the site is down, try later.
Cheers, Ed Gerck
[1] If someone wants to only use email for communication, this means that email will be his single point of failure in communication. Even if it's an ietf.org email. And, one may ask, what's wrong with using a postal address if email fails? After all, IETF IDs and RFCs include the postal addresses of authors. And some also have phone, fax, pager, IRC, IM, etc., available. Insisting on using only one communication path is un-Internet.
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