On Sep 17, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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, Would it? Why? I publish some papers in other places. I wear substantially different hats in other areas -- drafts published in the IETF reflect (in theory) IETF consensus, so they are not really *my* views, they are the views of a group of folk. So, it is not that folk can read a document in another context and then say "Wow, that's interesting, let me see what Warren's views on IETF subjects is" and then go find *my* IETF views (if they wanted that, looking at mailing lists is probably a better option :-)) I guess a universal identifier could be useful so that future employers / people in bars could look me up, see that I've contributed to N documents in M SDOs and then be all impressed. This does not seem very useful to me. W > and that single identifier is not going to be an @ietf.org email address. -- Consider orang-utans. In all the worlds graced by their presence, it is suspected that they can talk but choose not to do so in case humans put them to work, possibly in the television industry. In fact they can talk. It's just that they talk in Orang-utan. Humans are only capable of listening in Bewilderment. -- Terry Practhett