On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 04:12:26PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Stracke writes:
> > Thomas Narten wrote:
> >
> > > > 2. IETF working group mailing lists NEED to be run on an IETF system.
> > >
> > > Since no VPN WG was ever formed, this mailing list would not have been
> > > eligible to be an official IETF list.
> >
> > That would be one possible policy. Another would be, "OK, if we're going
> > to hold a BoF, then maybe it'll turn into a WG, and we don't want to
> > migrate the list, so let's host the BoF list at ietf.org".
> >
> > (Mind you, I'm not certain about the premise that having IETF host the
> > lists would help--the current system is a little messy, but it has the
> > advantage of spreading the cost out to the people that are most interested
> > in seeing the work done.)
>
> There was no WG because there was insufficient consensus on just what the
> working group was supposed to do.
>
Was there insufficient consensus because only few people discussed the
topic on a "secret" mailing list?
Anyway. Opening or creating the mailinglist could help us to identify
the subject of the of a possible working group.
/alex pilger
