>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. If you want Yahoo mail or gmail or pobox.com, you know where to find it. Or people here are, I expect, mostly able to arrange for their own vanity domains. R's, John, abuse@xxxxxxxx