Hopefully most of you will recall Brian Carpenter's suggestion of starting a work item around the topic of "managing IETF mailing lists." A number of people volunteered to take part in this effort. We created a small "design team" and have come up with an idea to get this work item started. A "-00" internet-draft was submitted, for which you should see an announcement in the next day or so. Brian has allocated some time during the General Area open meeting to discuss this work item. Among the questions to be asked during the meeting is whether or not this a work item we should progress and, if so, is the concept described in the internet-draft a reasonable starting point. A mailing list has been created to help get the discussion started. The purpose of this message is to call your attention to the list and invite you to subscribe if you are interested. Discussion can start once the I-D has been announced and folks have had some time to review it. To subscribe to the list send an email message with the single word "subscribe" in the body of the message to: ietf-maillists-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks, Jim (on behalf of the team> "Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Brian E Carpenter <brc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> Eric Gray <Eric.Gray@xxxxxxxxxxx> Margaret Wasserman <margaret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Martin Hannigan <hannigan@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@xxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf