Subject: [Sml] Re: Use Cases for Structured-Email Mailing Lists: Civic Technology
From: Steve Atkins <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:46:51 +0100
List-Id: Structured Email <sml.ietf.org>

> On 28 Aug 2025, at 06:11, Adam Sobieski <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> IETF Structured Email Working Group,
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> With solutions for addressing recipients' (AI) assistants now at hand, I would like to share a list of scenarios for structured-email mailing lists which pertain to (town- and city-scale) civic technology. People's town and city governments and/or their local newspapers (see: [1]) could use structured-email mailing lists to provide people with new services, features, and conveniences.
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> For human recipients, the frequency of their communities' emails could be challenging, daunting, or problematic, i.e., information overload. However, people's AI assistants can readily receive more frequent structured-email messages from their local governments and/or local newspapers to process and organize structured data, synchronize these data (e.g., to people's calendar view apps), and prepare to answer users' questions or to offer them well-timed notifications.

You make a compelling argument that email is not well-suited to this sort of data.

Perhaps you should consider some sort of machine-to-machine protocol, maybe RSS.

Cheers,
  Steve