Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announcement list

I think  this would be helpful to make sure no important messages are
missed.
Thanks for the effort!

Cheers,
Melchior

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 9:27 AM IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org> wrote:

> 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)
>
> _______________________________________________
> IETF-Announce mailing list
> IETF-Announce@ietf.org
> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
>