I think there was a BCP being worked on. I seem to recall it was being discussed as a Facebook group. But there's no RFC, at least that I know of.
Regards, Hal Ponton Senior Network Engineer Buzcom / FibreWiFi Tel: 07429 979 217 Email: h...@buzcom.net > On 6 Apr 2016, at 19:56, Dan Mahoney, System Admin <d...@prime.gushi.org> > wrote: > > All, > > We recently, at $dayjob, had one of our peers (at Symantec) send out a > network maint notification, putting 70 addresses in the "To:" field, rather > than using BCC or the exchange's mailing list. > > Naturally, when you mail 30 addresses, of the forms peering@ and noc@ various > organizations, you're likely to hit at least a few autoresponders and ticket > systems... > > And at least one or two of those autoresponders are of course brainded and > configured to reply-all. (In this case, Verizon's ServiceNow setup was such > a stupid responder). And that made things fun in our own ticket system, as > our RT setup happily created a bunch of tickets. > > My question for the group -- does anyone know if there's a "best practices" > for sending maint notifications like this? An RFC sort of thing? > > While it would define a social protocol, rather than a truly technical one, > if there's not such a document, it seems like it could useful. And once such > a thing exists, exchanges could of course helpfully point their members AT it > (for both their humans, and ticket systems, to follow). > > -Dan > > -- >
