Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: CACAO

Full disclosure: I approved this list, so feel free to be unhappy at me.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
wrote:

>
> Hiya,
>
> On 13/09/18 03:37, Barry Leiba wrote:
> > This really should have come with a fuller description: I shouldn't
> > have to contact the list admins just to find out whether a new mailing
> > list ought to be on my radar or not.
>
> Yeah. And the archive's empty. And it uses the almost
> always meaningless prefix "cyber" over and over in
> many predictable (but meaningless) ways.
>

Well, the archive is empty because it was created today, so I don't think
that's much of a critique.

I'll take responsibility for not insisting on there being a very detailed
description. I generally find the descriptions pretty uninformative (see,
for instance https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/cicm) so my bar isn't
very high here, but I see how others might feel differently.

So that's all bad signs IMO then (except for the
> existence of the draft.)
>
> I'm also a bit sad that we've gotten to the point
> where we're setting up lists driven to any extent
> by what's really an ill-defined marketing buzzword.
>

> OTOH, the goal according to [1] is an information
> model, so it could be mostly to totally harmless I
> guess;-)
>
> Only other thing to note is that this happens so
> often (new list for who knows what) that maybe the
> tooling's a bit wrong and encourages folks to ok
> or ask for lists without considering that others
> don't have the same (or any) context.
>

I think you and I are just going to have to disagree here. Lists are cheap
-- they're not WGs -- and I bias in favor of facilitating discussion. I
think this is appropriate especially in view of the fact that one of the
first questions we ask for a proposed BOF is whether there has been a lot
of list traffic. Again, you're free to feel differently.

-Ekr

> Cheers,
> S.
>
> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jordan-cacao-introduction-00
>
>
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 4:58 PM, IETF Secretariat
> > <ietf-secretariat@ietf.org> wrote:
> >> A new IETF non-working group email list has been created.
> >>
> >> List address: cacao@ietf.org
> >> Archive: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cacao/
> >> To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/cacao
> >>
> >> Purpose:
> >> This email list will be used to discuss Collaborative Automated Course
> of
> >> Action Operations (CACAO) for Cyber Security
> >>
> >> For additional information, please contact the list administrators.
> >>
> >
> >
>