Re: [Gendispatch] Ending [e-mail]

[Jay Daley <[e-mail]>]

> On 7/04/2021, at 8:07 AM, Rob Sayre <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:50 PM Jay Daley <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>> 
>> I might simplify the proposal to:
>> 
>> [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>: 
>>  - “Discussion of technical issues that are candidates for IETF work, but do not yet have an appropriate e-mail venue”
> 
> 
>>  - “Questions and clarifications concerning IETF meetings”
> 
> This one should be [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>.
> 
>>  - “Discussion of IETF administrative policies”
> 
> This one could be [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> if the other areas with admin responsibilities agree.  I would prefer that to avoid confusion.
> 
> Those suggestions sound reasonable to me, although it might be a good idea to have that list, last-call, the IESG, the IAB, and the RFC Editor post summaries to ietf@ periodically, much like some WGs do with GitHub activity.

I would prefer that to be [e-mail] as that list already has a high volume and a wide range of subjects.

Jay


> 
> That way, people can track what's going on, but have a place to follow up. All of those areas have (slightly) different norms at the moment, so that actually sounds an improvement to me. I suppose that gets closer to Rob Wilton's suggestion of a read-only alias.
> 
> I think it might be ok to leave it as a writeable list, though. That way people can ask questions (which will hopefully get swiftly redirected).
> 
> thanks,
> Rob
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