Subject: [Model-t] off we go

From: Stephen Farrell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:25:52 +0100

Hiya,

We've now got 50+ folks subscribed to the list so
it's probably ok to start the ball rolling now.

Coupla notes on that:

- It's still holiday-time for lots of people (incl.
me next week) so we should assume a certain amount of
repetition may be inevitable for a few more weeks as
people tune in and out and then back in again.

- My guess is that we'll start discussion and that'll
quickly become pretty wide ranging as people throw in
ideas about this, that and the other. I think that's
just fine - there's no mega-rush (3552 having been
around since 2003 and the sky not having fallen:-)
and we can try winnow things down later, maybe in a
couple of months or so. IOW, if you've ideas or
possibly-crazy proposals in this space, now's the
time...

- This isn't an IETF WG so there's no chair, no
specific work-items, drafts or milestones and no
IETF processes that we need slavishly follow:-)
OTOH, if discussion here is to produce outputs that
are useful, those'll need to be things that are
likely to garner consensus in the IETF and that
can be useful to IETF participants across the full
range of backgrounds and interests we see in IETF
participants. So while we're not process-constrained,
the range of useful outputs here is nonetheless
constrained by the IETF in at least the two ways
I mentioned there.

Other than that, usual mailing list etiquette: do
be nice, try be succinct, and change the subject line
at least once a month:-)

Cheers,
S.