The author get notified **at the email addresses supplied by the draft poster ** Who has no incentive to fake addresses. No sirree. Lloyd Wood http://about.me/lloydwood ________________________________________ From: ietf <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> on behalf of John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, 23 April 2015 11:58:27 AM To: ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Policy and tools regarding the filing of Internet Drafts In article <20150423002625.GF16567@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 03:08:04PM -0000, John Levine wrote: >> >> It already knows who the authors are -- if a new version of a draft >> has an added author, one of the previous authors has to confirm it. Someone pointed out that the authors all get notices when a new draft is posted. That seems good enough for the rare cases of false attribution, so "never mind". R's, John