Of course, this interacts slightly with another active issue. I am having visions of someone passing away and being expected by the IETF to reach out from the grave to update (i.e., remove) their email address. Given another recent experience, I have to wonder whether the tools would then tell them that they needed to supply a new email address, either because former authors and contributors are required to have email addresses or because that a working email address was needed to verify the change. I hope I'm joking. john --On Thursday, August 17, 2023 09:45 -0500 Robert Sparks <rjsparks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The datatracker is the best thing we currently have. > > The model there is that the person responsible for the > addresses tells the datatracker about the addresses, rather > than a 3rd party keeping the current address _for_ them. > > The work we are doing on refreshing the RPC tooling will > include using the datatracker address(es) marked active for > contacts like the one you point to below. > > RjS > > On 8/17/23 5:05 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote: >> We could probably go back to something like the old NIC >> handle, create a registry that can be updated and include >> that handle as a reference in documents/etc. >> >> My 02 >> -Jorge >> >>> On Aug 17, 2023, at 04:53, tom petch >>> <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Is there anywhere, ഀ㸀㸀㸀 RFC Editor possibly,ഀ㸀㸀㸀 that tracks changesഀ㸀㸀㸀 of e-mail addressesഀ㸀㸀㸀 for contributors? ഀ㸀㸀㸀 >> I just posted a rഀ㸀㸀㸀 esponse to an Erratuഀ㸀㸀㸀 m and got a number oഀ㸀㸀㸀 f bounces, one of whഀ㸀㸀㸀 ich was a change of ഀ㸀㸀㸀 address, change of aഀ㸀㸀㸀 ffiliation, for an Aഀ㸀㸀㸀 D; this is somethingഀ㸀㸀㸀 which could equallyഀ㸀㸀㸀 apply to any authorഀ㸀㸀㸀 . >> I have also seഀ㸀㸀㸀 en WG Chairs strugglഀ㸀㸀㸀 e to contact RFC autഀ㸀㸀㸀 hors in relationshipഀ㸀㸀㸀 to IPR issues or wiഀ㸀㸀㸀 th respect to updatiഀ㸀㸀㸀 ng an elderly RFC, lഀ㸀㸀㸀 ikewise IANA with reഀ㸀㸀㸀 gard to registrationഀ㸀㸀㸀 s.. >> It would seeഀ㸀㸀㸀 m to me that it mattഀ㸀㸀㸀 ers, sometimes more ഀ㸀㸀㸀 than others, that weഀ㸀㸀㸀 can still contact pഀ㸀㸀㸀 eople who have contrഀ㸀㸀㸀 ibuted in the past. ��㸀㸀㸀 >> >> Tom Petch ��㸀㸀㸀 ഀഀ
