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

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

On 9/1/15 10:22 AM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote:
>
> 4. On these two:
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> charter_external_reviewTo: ietf_announce
>                         Cc: group_mail_list
>
> charter_external_review_new_workTo: new_work
>
> 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.
>
> (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)
>
>
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).

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.