Re: Sergeant-at-Armss and New proposal/New SOW comment period

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 5:28 PM Randy Bush <[e-mail]> wrote:

> >>> do folk not have delete and delete-thread keys?
> >>>
> >>> Of course, but I don't generally think that imposing the cost of
> >>> thread management on every reader is usually a good tradeoff when we
> >>> have clearly distinct subjects. After all, taken to its conclusion,
> >>> one could argue we don't need separate mailing lists at all.
> >>
> >> or taken to the other conclusion, we could have a whole lot of mailing
> >> lists, most ephemeral if we are lucky.
> >
> >
> > I had thought that was in fact the basic premise of having a pile of WGs
> > each with their own list.
>
> sorry; i did not realize you were proposing to spin up a wg.
>

I'm not proposing that. I'm saying rather that we are already in the state
where we have a large pile of mailing lists (1 per WG), and in addition we
tend to spin them up for new significant work.

ISTM that we're differing on the degree to which this is significant and
long-lasting....

-Ekr


> randy
>