[rfc-i] Mailing lists overlap - merge them ?

[Mark Nottingham]

Hi Roger,

I suspect that there's still a need for tools-discuss, because there are other tools.

However, it'd be *great* if we were more rigorous about moving discussions to the appropriate venue. In particular, if I care about the XMLv3 format but not about the xml2rfc tool (which is *one* implementation of it), I should be able to subscribe only to the rfc-interest list to see relevant discussion. 

Cheers,


> On 9 Feb 2021, at 2:57 am, Roger Price <roger at rogerprice.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2021, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> 
>> On 2021-02-08, at 10:36, Roger Price <roger at rogerprice.org> wrote:
>>> If the lists are not to be merged, then they are to be clearly separated.
>> 
>>     +-----------------------+
>>     |                       |
>>     |   rfc-interest        |
>>     |                       |
>>     |                       |
>>     |                       |
>>     |                       |
>>     |        ...............|..
>>     |        : tools-discuss| :
>>     |  ,------------------, | :
>>     |  |     :            | | :
>>     |  |     :            | | :
>>     |  |     :            | | :
>>     +--+------------------+-+ :
>>        |     :            |   :
>>        |     :            |   :
>>        |     -------------|----
>>        |  xml2rfc,        |
>>        |  xml2rfc-dev     |
>>        '------------------'
>> 
>> 
>> Exercise for the reader:  Please disentangle!
> 
> If the truth were known, I suspect that the diagram would show that the
> tools-discuss readership is almost entirely covered by rfc-interest and xml2rfc.
> 
> rfc-interest already excludes the IETF standards process and general IETF organizational issues.  If it also sent the technicians to xml2rfc for technical questions, then tools-discuss could be retired, and there would be little need for double posting.
> 
> Roger
> 
> (Figure stolen from Carsten and adapted.)
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