Paul,
As someone who has been active in Apps WGs for 20 years (sigh), I would hate
to see the area disappear, but that kind of thinking has caused the IETF to
hold on to other things much too long.
I wanted to say that while we are talking about changing organisation, we are
*not* abandoning any work. The number of WGs and topics fluctuates, but I
cannot think of many more significant standards efforts at the moment than what
we are doing with HTTP 2.0 for instance. Apps work is very important, and we
continue to be happy to create new working groups and sponsor BOFs. However, we
also feel that slightly bigger group of ADs would allow some flexibility to
deal with the fluctuations, distribute workload better, etc. So - no
disappearance but rather a change in form.
Jari
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