In message <20030506192040(_dot_)GB4805(_at_)jabberwocky(_dot_)com>, David Shaw
writes:
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On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 01:24:11PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
As was announced yesterday, I'm the new chair of OpenPGP. My goals
(as somewhat explained to me by the ADs) are to finish up the existing
work and try to ramp down the WG. This means finishing up all the
open issues, getting 2440bis out the door, and either shutting down
or rechartering based on what else is left to do.
I'm curious what shutting down actually entails. Once 2440bis is
complete, what happens when/if something needs to happen in the
OpenPGP space? Is the WG officially reconvened, or are things not
that formal? Even if the WG is shut down, I think it would be useful
if this mailing list would continue to exist. It is a good forum,
with an excellent signal to noise ratio, and it reaches nearly all of
the people working on OpenPGP today.
Mailing lists can (and often do) continue indefinitely.
As for the WG -- it can go dormant, or it can be disbanded. If there's
a need for a new WG in that space, one can be spun up -- the issue
would be the charter, since any new WG would be doing something
different. Minor changes could be done by individual submissions.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)