Hi Q,
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At 05:21 AM 31-03-2025, Q Misell wrote:
To dig up an old conversation, the relevance of such a BoF crossed
my mind yesterday.
It probably happens less often than email addresses being deleted,
but people change names. You're probably familiar with this
happening when someone gets married, but there are other times.
It is common for trans people to change their name, and having to
recall or see their old name (commonly called a deadname) can be a
traumatic experience for us. We currently accept RFCs to be
unchanging documents, but I think in some cases there should be room
to update the author's metadata on the RFC.
I would like to organise a BoF to discuss updating the rules on
changing RFCs, and would appreciate some input from people who have
organised a BoF before.
There was a discussion in 2019 about removing a name from a (IETF)
RFC [1]. There are two aspects. One of them is discussed in RFC
5378. The second one is a matter of Stream policy. I suggest
contacting the IESG [2] about the policy aspect.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
1. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/1H6xybhd6eV3IloIO732Ckk4jgs/
2. https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/iesg/about/
