Re: [Gendispatch] I-D Action: draft-eggert-bcp45bis-01.txt

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

On 2021-3-29, at 22:59, Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> *  Questions and clarifications concerning IETF meetings, although
>> most of these topics are better brought up on the discussion list
>> for IETF LLC administrative issues [ADMIN-DISCUSS] or the attendee
>> discussion list for a given IETF meeting, such as
>> [IETF110-ATTENDEES] for IETF-110.
> 
> However, since not everybody attends IETF meetings, and therefore
> not everybody is on the attendee lists, we should be clear that
> messages like "we are going to discuss the very interesting topic X
> at the next IETF meeting" do IMHO still belong on the IETF list. The
> previous bullet in the draft already says this, but maybe we could
> reove any doubt by having this bullet start:
> 
> * Questions and clarifications concerning practical aspects of IETF meetings...


If the intent is to makes sure that people are aware of relevant discussions, even if they're not on one of the attendee lists (and I usually decline that), it might be better to use ietf-announce@ -- e.g., in a "rollup" e-mail before the meeting, where submissions are solicited ahead of time. Or with an open calendar / wiki space (we rely on e-mail to much for stateful things anyway).

Again, ietf@ should _not_ be the default place for announcing things. It is a subset of the community.

Cheers,


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