[ipv6-wg] Promote the use of IRC

Hi Daniel and list,

"Daniel Baeza (Red y Sistemas TVT)" <d.baeza at tvt-datos.es> writes:

> Yesterday, I've started a discussion in the member list about

exactly which list are you writing about?

> promoting the use of IRC instead of Mail List for some kind of
> discussions, chit chat, etc.
>
> Not much members answered, but all who did said yes.

Hmm, from what I've seen in the community here, that doesn't really mean
much.  If people don't respond it can mean they agree (and wait for a
consensus call to keep the noise down) and it can also mean they
consider the idea a complete waste of time (and wait for a consensus
call to keep the noise down).

The problem I see with discussions per IRC is that a lot of us work in
the kind of job where we can't keep hanging around in the IRC; or put
bluntly, every once in a while I find it impossible to ensure I catch up
on the list every evening.  So moving discussions and possibly even
decision making to the IRC will effectively keep people like me out of
that discussion.

> The goal is to have, at least, one channel per mail list, but not
> limited to only that.
>
> For this list, an #ipv6 channel will be created and administrated by
> the WG Chairs.

Hmm, have Dave and/or Jen agreed to take care of that job?  If so, then
fine, but I can't possibly take on that job myself.  And I'm most
definitely not spending time on trying to catch up with discussions by
reading whatever transcripts every night or so.

Which leads to another problem: While there are a lot of people who
write e-mails faster than they think, those people are reasonably rare
in this community; but IRC leads to much more noise, which adds a lot of
unnecessary work.


Cheers,

    Benedikt

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