Re: Planned experiment: A new mailing list for last-call discussions

[Richard Barnes <[e-mail]>]

+1

I have no comments on this.  You even answered my usual question about
"experiments", namely what the success criteria are.  Ship it.

--Richard

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:07 AM Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:

> +1. This seems like a great idea.
>
> -Ekr
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 9:14 AM Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
>> As we discussed in the plenary session at IETF 105 in Montréal, some
>> community members have suggested moving document last-call discussions
>> onto a dedicated "last-call" mailing list, and off of the general
>> <[e-mail]> list.  The latter is a high-volume list with a lot of
>> varied discussion, and some think that it would be useful to separate
>> the general discussion from the last-call discussion, to allow people
>> to choose which discussions (or both) to follow.  In the IETF 105
>> plenary, support was expressed for that separation.
>>
>> The IESG agrees, and wants to try an experiment to that end.  We
>> propose to create <[e-mail]> and to direct last-call
>> comments and discussions there (the last-call announcements would
>> still go to <[e-mail]>, with "reply-to" set to the new
>> list).  That list would be monitored by volunteers recruited by the
>> IETF Chair, and digressions would be nudged back to <[e-mail]>,
>> while we would ask people having last-call discussions on this list to
>> please move them to the new list.  We would get the tools team
>> involved so that the distribution lists for directorate and
>> review-team reviews would be updated appropriately.
>>
>> Our plan is to create the new list and pre-subscribe everyone who is
>> subscribed to <[e-mail]> at that time.  Of course, anyone could
>> unsubscribe to either or both lists immediately or later, but we think
>> that doing it this way would minimize the likelihood that people would
>> miss important stuff because of the move, and folks can choose what
>> they prefer from there.
>>
>> After six months, we would do an initial evaluation, including getting
>> feedback from the community, to see how the experiment is working.  If
>> it seems worth continuing we would do so, and at a point that the
>> community decides that the experiment is a success (should it so
>> decide), we would start an update to BCP 45 to formally move the
>> location for last-call discussions, and we would update the 2007 IESG
>> Statement on Last Call Guidance.
>>
>> We invite comments, here, on this plan, by the end of September. As I
>> say above, we've heard support from the community for the general
>> idea, and we'd like to make sure this direction is what the community
>> wants.
>>
>> Barry, for the IESG
>>
>>