Re: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] First look: Improved email handling in the datatracker

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Robert,

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On 9/1/15 10:22 AM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote:
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> 4. On these two:
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> charter_external_review To: ietf_announce
>                         Cc: group_mail_list
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> charter_external_review_new_work To: new_work
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> Are there charters that go to external review, that DON'T go to New Work?
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6756 has this:
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>    The IETF maintains a mailing list for the distribution of proposed
>    new work items among standards development organizations.  Many such
>    items can be identified in proposed Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF)
>    sessions, as well as draft charters for working groups.  The IETF
>    forwards all such draft charters for all new and revised working
>    groups and BOF session announcements to the IETF new-work mailing
>    list.
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> (I apologize for not knowing for sure, but I think that's the only RFC
> that describes how this works. But maybe something has changed since I
> moved from the IAB to the IESG)
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> These are separate more to allow control of what appears in the headers of
> what goes to the new-work list than to enable sending to new-work or not.
> (Even if they are always both sent, we shouldn't try to do it with one
> message).
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> The normal workflow would be to send both messages. The tool will allow
> the secretariat to send to only one, at the direction of the IESG.
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Ah, thank you for clearing that up for me. The split makes perfect sense
now.

Spencer