On Sat, Sep 25, 2021, at 12:56, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
3. I do object strongly to classifying "Last call announcements for I-Ds"as non-important. They are such a fundamental part of the IETF process that they really must go to everybody, and specifically to everybody who is*not* in the WG concerned. In fact, this would amount to an end-run around RFC2026, for standards track and BCP drafts.
I would pretty strongly push back again this. There are whole areas of the IETF in which I have no interest, or even if I have interest, I have no special expertise that would make my contribution on them valuable.
I'm significantly more interested in seeing everything in my area (ART) because I'm more likely to have something of value to add - but even there, it's a wide enough cross section that there are parts I don't particularly need to know about and spend mental energy on.
And I'm pretty invested and interested in the IETF compared to plenty of people who want to come in and work on one particular thing. If we want the IETF to be welcoming and non-overwhelming to new people, making "you have to have an opinion on every piece of work in the firehose" be the default is pretty unfriendly. It just doesn't scale.
Bron.
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