Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
While not harmful, I'm not sure this is necessary if the more-or-less
standard naming convention for drafts is followed for non-WG drafts:
draft-conroy-sipping-foo-bar
indicates that the author Conroy believes the sipping WG to be the
appropriate place for discussion, just like
1. You are missing the amount of overhead involved in mapping the wg name to the
information needed to subscribe to the working group.
2. You are assuming that the person reading the I-D is familiar with IETF naming
conventions.
3. Not all I-Ds map to a working group.
If the IETF is to be truly inclusive, it needs to limit the amount of expertise
required for simple interactions by the rest of the community. Giving them the
name of the mail list seems like a pretty small bit of overhead.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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