Could this not be used for an enhancement? The IETF needs to globalize, to
motivate and reward its members (see current analysis), to motivate (cf.
RFC 3869) local Govs (meeting, debates, PR announces) and industries (PR on
products) and to get "independent" and stable money for its budget.
Why not to add an "annoucement" menu on the IETF page. Where announces
could be presented in a mechanism similar to Drafts (with anouncements for
information and some kind of sponsoring for key meeting/announces). With at
least three keys (per WG, per Topics, per Location). This could only help
outreach, Members to meet f2f locally and cross-WG information. Also, this
could be contracted to ISOC or another party to run the commercial
announces in a commercial way (products announces, commercial events, etc.)
and get most probably substantial financial resources for the RFC Editor.
In using an RSS I do not think it would impose an extra worthless reading
on the Members and could help a lot keeping abreast without having to scan
scores of blogs and mailing lists.
jfc
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