We've been asked to wait a few days before actually doing the
cut-over. The cut-over has been scheduled for Friday, 29
February.
Jim
-- On Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:19 AM -0500 James Galvin
<galvin+discuss at elistx.com> wrote regarding this list is moving
and being renamed as apps-discuss at ietf.org --
> The IESG has decided that all ietf.org mailing lists should be
> in the ietf.org domain. In almost all cases this decision has
> no effect and is invisible for all practical purposes. IETF
> hosted mailing lists have always been valid in the ietf.org
> domain regardless of their sub-domain.
>
> This mailing list is one of the very few exceptions, caused in
> large part by the fact that the apps.ietf.org domain has been
> delegated and hosted off-site, but the mailing lists were never
> really delegated. In addition, the new infrastructure enforces
> virtual domains while the old infrastructure did not. In
> combination, these two facts are what caused the discuss list to
> fail after the cut-over.
>
> We are aware that some mailing lists, this one included, are
> listed in RFCs and other formal documents. For these lists
> backwards compatibility will be maintained.
>
> This list has the additional problem of being named "discuss",
> which was not a problem in the apps.ietf.org domain but is too
> generic for use in the ietf.org domain. Therefore, this list
> will be renamed as apps-discuss.
>
> The old archives will be left in place. The new archives will
> be created and maintained by Mailman, although they will not be
> accessible for a short while.
>
> The IETF has historically managed its own archives for its
> mailing lists. This means we have home-grown scripts for
> creating the text archives and the web archives. The web
> archive script uses MHonArc.
>
> We are going to migrate all IETF hosted mailing lists to use the
> Mailman archive system, leaving all old archives intact. Until
> that change takes place, Mailman only archives will be
> inaccessible. We expect this change to take place within the
> next 2-3 weeks. Please be patient about accessing the archives
> until that time.
>
> All subscribers of discuss at apps.ietf.org will be moved to
> apps-discuss at ietf.org. A notice will be sent to the new list as
> soon as the move is complete. This change will take place later
> today. You may want to update any filters you have that depend
> on this information now.
>
> For those who "remember" their Mailman password for the discuss
> mailing list, you will need to set a new password for the
> apps-discuss list using the usual Mailman process, after the new
> list is operational
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>