Dear IETF-Announce Subscribers: As you are aware, the preponderance of messages sent to the IETF-Announce mailing list are I-D Action announcements, the messages that inform the community that a new Internet-Draft has been posted to the IETF Web site. To better serve you, the IETF Secretariat is creating a separate mailing list, I-D-Announce, expressly for this purpose. Postings to the will be limited to I-D Action announcements. All other announcements will continue to be sent to the IETF-Announce list. I-D-Announce will be created as a Mailman list. At the same time, the existing IETF-Announce list will be migrated from Majordomo to Mailman. The transition from the current IETF-Announce list to the I-D-Announce and new IETF-Announce lists will be implemented in four steps: - Step 1: Create I-D-Announce and IETF-Announce Mailman lists with the same subscribers as the existing IETF-Announce mailing list. Step 1 has been completed. - Step 2: Provide instructions to current IETF-Announce subscribers regarding how to *unsubscribe* to each of these lists should they wish to do so prior to the split. Step 2 is now in progress. Instructions for unsubscribing to the I-D-Announce and new IETF-Announce lists are available at http://www.ietf.org/new-announce-list.html. If you wish to continue to receive all types of announcements, then you need do nothing (since you are currently subscribed to both lists). If you wish to receive all announcements except for I-D Action announcements, then you must unsubscribe to the I-D-Announce list. Finally, if you wish to receive only I-D Action announcements, then you must unsubscribe to the IETF-Announce list. - Step 3: Activate the I-D-Announce and new IETF-Announce lists, and modify internal procedures so that all I-D Action announcements go to the I-D Announce list. - Step 4: Update the pages on the IETF Web site that refer to IETF-Announce to reflect the existence of I-D-Announce as well. All messages will continue to be sent to the existing IETF-Announce list until 9:00 am ET on March 30, 2004, which is one week from today. Steps 3 and 4 will be implemented at that time. If you wish to comment on this change in procedures, then please send a message to ietf@ietf.org. The IETF Secretariat.
