It's a question of costs and benefits. The cost of the IETF Announce posting is small. There are not that many of them and I don't find them to be a burden. The benefit in openness and transparency is large. Thus the answer is simple and the policy should remain as it is for now. If conditions change, it can certainly be revisited. Thanks, Donald ============================= Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA d3e3e3@xxxxxxxxx On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Hannes Tschofenig <Hannes.Tschofenig@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> The concept is simple: a time-specific gather is a meeting. Meetings >> require prior announcement beyond the working group. > > I am not against a meeting announcement. I am suggesting to announce the > meeting where the audience is -- in the working group. >