Re: [apps-discuss] IETF lists Re: draft-ietf-iri-comparison

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2015-01-28 11:52, t.petch wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roy T. Fielding" <[e-mail]>
> To: "David Singer" <[e-mail]>
> Cc: "Graham Klyne" <[e-mail]>; <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:05 AM
>
> ....Roy
>
> p.s.  Am I the only one that finds it incredibly annoying that the
>        APPS area uses this umbrella list for technical discussions about
>        topics for which we still have the original working group mailing
>        list active, archived, and populated with folks still capable of
>        answering these questions?  Ya know,
>
>           "http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/"
>           "http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-iri/"
>
>
> Roy
>
> Over the years, almost all the lists I deal with have come under the
> umbrella of the IETF administration, giving them a consistent look and
> feel, an adequate set of features, an easy way of reporting when the
> archiving has collapsed (again), advance notice of many of the enforced
> changes to my way of working, etc.
>
> The result is less time spent on useless admin, more on real work.
>
> So separate list, eg arcmedia, fine, under some third party which does
> things differently or not at all .. thanks but no thanks.
> ...

-1

The W3C lists work just fine, and having things (incl historical 
discussions) in a single place makes a lot of sense; that's why HTTPbis 
sticks with that as well.

Best regards, Julian