Re: Concerns about individual submissions process (c.f. RFC5647 AES-GCM for Secure Shell)

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 02 September 2009 21:56 UTC

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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:54:21 +1200
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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To: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
Subject: Re: Concerns about individual submissions process (c.f. RFC5647 AES-GCM for Secure Shell)
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Nico,

On 2009-09-03 07:54, Nicolas Williams wrote:
...
> I do not subscribe to the IETF list
> (ietf@ietf.org), for the very obvious reason that its signal-to-noise
> ratio is too poor, thus completely missed the IETF LC of draft-igoe-
> secsh-aes-gcm

Last Calls are announced on the ietf-announce@ietf.org list,
which is a read-only list with relatively low volume.

The reason for that is to avoid exactly the problem you describe.
If you're not subscribed to ietf-announce, you won't see *any*
Last Calls, or other important announcements.

http://www.ietf.org/list/announcement.html

    Brian