Jen, You read into my mind... Exactly the same concerns: practicalities & fragmentation
>If people would like to have a place to informal chat nobody could >prevent them. However I have a few concerns. In particular, >segmentation of the information. IRC would one more communication >channel to track (and it is not the best one if you would like to find >out what happened while you've been on vacation, for example). We do >not have so much traffic on ipv6 mailing list so I do not see a use >case for offloading informal discussions to IRC channel to increase >signal/noise ratio. > >If someone would like to have an informal chat about IPv6 @irc - there >are IPv6-related channels around so I'm inclined to use Occam's razor >here ;)
