It might not meet your requirements for an ietf-wide announcement, but
the announcement of the list and its topic was sent to the IETF list on 19
October 2005, with extended followup discussion.
Although it is a bit strange to have a pre-wg mailing list run on the ietf.org
server, with a closed invitation list, that doesn't really seem so terrible to
me. Seeding initial discussions in this way could be useful to get initial
discussions started, but with some chance of coherence.
But that is strictly as a pre-cursor to an open announcement, of course.
So I think we are back to the concern that the open announcement needs to be
earlier enough to allow serious discussion prior to holding the BOF.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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