James, I'm very sorry about that. I sent the Secretariat a long description when requesting list creation. See it below. I will follow up with the Executive Director to find out what happened. Adrian === -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Farrel [mailto:adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 26 November 2013 20:03 To: 'ietf-action@xxxxxxxx' Cc: iesg@xxxxxxxx; King, Daniel (d.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx); leeyoung@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: FW: Please create and announce a new non-WG mailing list Hi, Please create the a new non-working group mailing list as follows... Name and email address of the submitter: Young Lee, leeyoung@xxxxxxxxxx The name of the list: Abstraction and Control of Transport Networks (ACTN) The URL or email address of the list: actn@xxxxxxxx Name(s) and email address(es) of the list administrator(s): Young Lee leeyoung@xxxxxxxxxx Daniel King d.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The IETF Area to which the list belongs: Routing The URL or other instructions for subscribing to the list: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/actn The purpose of the list: Transport networks have a variety of mechanisms to facilitate separation of data plane and control plane including distributed signaling for path setup and protection, centralized path computation for planning and traffic engineering, and a range of management and provisioning protocols to configure and activate network resources. These mechanisms represent key technologies for enabling flexible and dynamic networking. As transport networks evolve, the need to provide network abstraction has emerged as key requirement for operators; this is in effect virtualization of network resources so that the network is "sliced" for different uses, applications, services, and clients each being given a different partial view of the total topology and each considering that it is operating with or on a single, stand-alone and consistent network. This virtualization is known as Abstraction and Control of Transport Network (ACTN) and facilitates: - Abstraction of underlying network resources to higher-layer applications and users (clients); - Slicing of network resources, to meet specific application and users requirements; - A computation scheme and virtual control capability, via an information model, to clients who request network connectivity and bandwidth; - Coordination of underlying transport layers and presentation as an abstracted topology to the client; This mailing list is intended to enable discussion of the architecture, use-cases/applicability, and requirements that provide abstraction and virtual control of transport networks to various applications/clients. > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Polk > Sent: 03 December 2013 19:41 > To: ietf@xxxxxxxx; IETF Announcement List > Cc: d.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; younglee.tx@xxxxxxxxx; leeyoung@xxxxxxxxxx; > actn@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: ACTN -- Abstraction and Control of > Transport Networks (ACTN) > > Can this "purpose" have fewer words...? > > come on, let us know what's really going on this new list > > James > > At 11:56 AM 12/3/2013, IETF Secretariat wrote: > >A new IETF non-working group email list has been created. > > > >List address: actn@xxxxxxxx > >Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/actn/ > >To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/actn > > > >Purpose: Discussion of Abstraction and Control of Transport Networks > >(ACTN) > > > >For additional information, please contact the list administrators.