Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announcement list
IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org> Fri, 24 September 2021 07:26 UTC
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Subject: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announcement list
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:25:55 +0300
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Hi, at the moment, ietf-announce is the main announcement list of the IETF, seeing regular posts from various roles and bodies in the organization, and from the Datatracker. Over the last year, ietf-announce has seen around 1200 emails, averaging around 4.6 emails per workday. The ietf-announce lists currently distributes the following types of announcements. All but the first type are automatically generated by various tools: 1. Announcements sent manually by the IETF Chair, the IAB Chair, the IRTF Chair, the Chair of the LLC Board, the IETF Executive Director, the NomCom Chair, and the IETF Secretariat 2. Announcements of new and updated WG charters 3. WG closure announcements 4. Announcements of new non-WG mailing lists 5. Announcements of new RFCs 6. IESG and LLC telechat announcements 7. Announcements of document actions 8. Announcements of IESG conflict-review results 9. Last call announcements for I-Ds 10. Interim WG meeting announcements The ietf-announce list currently has 3095 subscribers, which is a fraction of the overall IETF community. Only 961 of these subscribers have Datatracker accounts; out of 13311 overall Datatracker account holders. When asking IETF participants about why they are not subscribed, the volume of email on the list - especially automatically-generated Datatracker email - is the most often mentioned reason. The IESG is therefore considering creating a new mailing list for important organizational announcements only. We are hoping that a subscription to a new low-volume mailing list will be acceptable to IETF participants that find ietf-announce too noisy, and will help us disseminate important news and announcements more widely and effectively. Here are the details about this proposal: * The name of the new mailing list is important-news. - The ietf-announce mailing list will continue to operate as-is. - Posting rights to important-news are restricted to the same set of roles as for ietf-announce. - All emails sent to important-news will be CC’ed to ietf-announce. * Posts - important-news will only receive the first type of announcements in the numbered list above, i.e., important announcements that are manually sent by various organizational roles. - important-news will not receive any of the other types of email sent to ietf-announce. In the rare case that one of these is of sufficiently broad community interest to be distributed via important-news, this will occur as a manual action by one of the roles authorized to post to important-news. * Subscriptions - Every participant with a current Datatracker account will be automatically subscribed to important-news. - Every participant creating a new Datatracker account will automatically be subscribed to important-news. - important-news is also open to manual subscriptions to anyone without a Datatracker account. A welcome message will be sent to new important-news subscribers, explaining what it’s for and that we’d hope they stay subscribed. It will also include instructions or ideally a link for unsubscribing. - Any important-news subscriber can unsubscribe at any time. The IESG is inviting community feedback to iesg@ietf.org about this proposal by 7 October 2021. Lars Eggert IETF Chair (on behalf of the IESG)
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- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Christian Huitema
- RE: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Adrian Farrel
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Eliot Lear
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Salz, Rich
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… David Noveck
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Tim Wicinski
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Lucas Pardue
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… John C Klensin
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… tom petch
- Re: [irsg] Proposal: an "important-news" IETF ann… Lars Eggert
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Lars Eggert
- Re: [irsg] Proposal: an "important-news" IETF ann… Lars Eggert
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Lars Eggert
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Eliot Lear
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Lars Eggert
- RE: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… MORTON JR., AL
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Stephen Farrell
- RE: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… STARK, BARBARA H
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Eliot Lear
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Carsten Bormann
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Marc Petit-Huguenin
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Barry Leiba
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Alexey Melnikov
- RE: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… MORTON JR., AL
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Robert Sparks
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Michael Richardson
- RE: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… STARK, BARBARA H
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… John C Klensin
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Barry Leiba
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Barry Leiba
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… John C Klensin
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… tom petch
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… tom petch
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Michael Richardson
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- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Jay Daley
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Barry Leiba
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Jay Daley
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Martin Thomson
- Why last calls matter more than ever [Re: Proposa… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: making upcoming calendar more useful John C Klensin
- Re: making upcoming calendar more useful Warren Kumari
- Re: making upcoming calendar more useful Barry Leiba
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… tom petch
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Michael Richardson
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… tom petch
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… John C Klensin
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Spencer Dawkins at IETF
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Michael Richardson
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Robert Sparks
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… Michael Richardson
- Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announceme… John C Klensin
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