Dear Colleagues,
In the message I sent last Friday on behalf of the IAB, I noted that list confirmation of any tentative conclusions from IETF 106 would take place on rfc-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. This was following a consultation with Heather during the plenary at IETF 105 on where to continue the conversation; her response then was to direct discussion to the rfc-interest list. She was in the meetings where the current plan was discussed and had the opportunity to review the IAB message before it was sent out, so I believe she concurred with the use of rfc-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx for follow-up discussion between then and now.
When I sent the message from the IAB to both the IETF list and the rfc-interest list, I set the reply-to to the rfc-interest list. That worked much less well than it should have as a signal, in part because the iab-chair role account is not subscribed to the rfc-interest list and the message was held in moderation. That meant that the message to the IETF list was seen first and folks reacted there. Sorry for any confusion that resulted.
While folks can of course direct messages to the RSOC or the IAB without cc'ing one of the lists, I do encourage folks interested in tracking this discussion over the long term to subscribe to rfc-interest and contribute there. That list has folks from outside the IETF as subscribers, and we wish to be inclusive of them in this process.
regards,
Ted Hardie
(without having confirmed that this is a consensus opinion of the IAB)
