On 24-Aug-22 20:46, tom petch wrote:
On 22/08/2022 18:03, Donald Eastlake wrote:
Area Dispatch WG
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ART DISPATCH
GEN GENDISPATCH
INT INTAREA
OPS OPSAWG
RTG RTGWG
SEC SECDISPATCH
TSV TSVWG
In some cases it is a "pure" dispatch WG that never processes documents
itself. In other cases, it handles documents in the area that it does not
dispatch in some other way.
Donald
Thank you for the prompt and comprehensive response. Clearly it is
easier to know than I imagined but how could I have found that out? As
you may infer, I did search the datatracker, IESG wiki and such like to
no avail. I see that the charters for e.g. intarea and rtgwg do include
mention of this function albeit not using the word 'dispatch'.
The very notion of a separate forum for 'dispatch' discussions is quite new,
whereas 'area' WGs have existed for many years and are (IMHO) the natural
forum for such discussions. I don't know why ART and SEC areas decided to set
up separate groups (that doesn't imply that I have any objection, those
are simply areas that I don't track). I do know why the GEN area did so -
there was no GENAREA WG at all, so there was a real gap.
(When I was GEN Area Director, I assumed that ietf@xxxxxxxx was the forum
for general IETF discussions.)
Brian
