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Hi Fred,
(I’m an incoming AD but have had no say nor hand in this, nor any privileged insight. I’m posting as an individual and with an understanding based on the text of the charter.)
First, there is indeed a mailing list:
Mailing list: Address: manycouches@xxxxxxxx To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/manycouches Archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/manycouches/ I’ve dropped iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx, moved
ietf@xxxxxxxx to bcc and cc'd the WG mailing list since you indicated that was your preferred venue.
Second, you seem to be assuming that SHMOO is chartered to shut down in-person meetings. I see no support for that reading in the text. The closest it comes is this paragraph:
- The cadence of meeting scheduling and the mix of in-person versus fully online meetings going forward once the disruptions caused by the pandemic have subsided. The working group is expected to document the expected future meeting cadence as a BCP if consensus emerges to depart from the existing cadence of three in-person meetings per year. Notably, any such guidance will not become actionable until 3-4 years after it achieves consensus, given the length of the IETF meeting planning cycle. The working group will not progress this work item until it has requested publication for all of its meeting cancellation-related work items. Which seems very close in spirit to your own remark that you "can see scaling back”.
In short I think you’re either objecting to something that’s not present in the charter, or your objection isn’t at all clear. By the way, I’m sympathetic if you’re objecting based primarily on the name “Stay Home Meet Only Online”. I’ve objected
to this myself — it’s a case of our institutional love for cute acronyms harming our actual mission.
—John
P.S.: I admire your optimism in thinking circumstances will allow an in-person meeting for 111.
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