Amazingly, section 4.5 of the Tao of the IETF, on mailing lists, makes no mention of mail management or filtering, Essential life tools, in my opinion. Lloyd Wood lloyd.wood@xxxxxxxxxxx > On 23 Apr 2021, at 07:00, Adam Roach <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not necessarily saying these topics aren't worth discussing; but it's important to get broad consensus on the documents we publish as RFCs, and we can't afford to lose those conversations under the crush of high-volume topics. The risk of documents in last call getting lost in the noise is far more of a barrier to being "available to the community" than the use of a dedicated mailing list.