[Tools-discuss] Targeted email/chat group for reaching WG chairs.

["Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

I had an action, I think from a previous IEG retreat, about seeing if we could set up a targeted email alias to reach WG chairs with important information that all WGs chairs would be expected to see/read.

The aim: Have a way of getting limited important information to the WG chairs in a way that is likely to reach them (e.g., in-person meeting announcements, or nomcom requests).  There was some brief discussion as to whether an alias similar the <area>-chairs would be more effective than a standard mailing list, but the conclusion was to seek your expert opinions on this.

Of course, we already have wgchairs@, but some chairs miss some of the announcements sent to the list, or read the information too late.  This may be because they filter it, or there is too much other discussion on the alias which drowns the important news from general discussion.  So, the goal is a very cutdown lists with much more limited emails.  E.g., probably in the order of approx. 1 or 2 per week between meetings, and a bit more in the run up to IETF.

In addition, there was also some discussion about having something similar setup for Slack/Zulip.  I.e., a place to send announcements for WG chairs to read.

A final consideration is that we would probably want to direct follow ups to a more general discussion list, i.e., aiming to keep the volume of the email on the announce email lists (and chat channel) to be very low, perhaps with a restricted sender's group.

Do you have any suggestions as to what is feasible here and what the recommended approach might be?  Could DMARC be an issue with an <area-chairs> type of approach?

Thanks in advance,
Rob