On Sep 17, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Hector Santos <hsantos@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9/17/2013 1:55 PM, Michael Tuexen wrote: >> On Sep 17, 2013, at 7:48 PM, Scott Brim <scott.brim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Michael Tuexen >>> <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> I was always wondering the authors can't get an @ietf.org address, which is listed >>>> in the RFC and is used to forward e-mail to another account. > > Me too! I would even suggest that all I-D authors, at the very least, should need to register with the IETF to submit documents. Optional @ietf.org offered. Having an IETF identity is OK if all you ever publish is in the IETF. Some of our participants also publish at other SDOs such as IEEE, W3C, ITU, and quite a few publish Academic papers. Using the same identifier for all these places would be useful, and that single identifier is not going to be an @ietf.org email address.