What about moving IETF LC discussions / reviews to a dedicated list?
These are examples of targeted topics that come up for the general
community to consider from time to time. The current question of how
best to handle bullying and harassment is another example.
Whatever venue is used, we aren't very good at staying on point for such
topics. Witness the sequence that the current thread is part of.
We tend to jump to whatever bright, shiny new item attracts a few folk
next, rather than staying focused. Note that this tendency essentially
enables a denial of service attack by posters; and whether the effect is
intentional or not does not matter. It becomes the community's fault by
not managing the discussion focus.
So I suspect that what we need is not a new venue but active
facilitation/management of threads that need to converge on an explicit
outcome.
Working groups often do this, with a facilitator (chair or someone else)
maintaining an issues list, periodically doing a summary, and
periodically offering their sense of the groups. (And yeah, in some
cases that is a rough consensus assessment.)
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net