Re: VPN Mailing list administrator?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at research.att.com>]

In message <380B7608.77EF2F61 at ecal.com>, John Stracke writes:
> Thomas Narten wrote:
> 
> > > 2. IETF working group mailing lists NEED to be run on an IETF system.
> >
> > Since no VPN WG was ever formed, this mailing list would not have been
> > eligible to be an official IETF list.
> 
> That would be one possible policy.  Another would be, "OK, if we're going
> to hold a BoF, then maybe it'll turn into a  WG, and we don't want to
> migrate the list, so let's host the BoF list at ietf.org".
> 
> (Mind you, I'm not certain about the premise that having IETF host the
> lists would help--the current system is a little messy, but it has the
> advantage of spreading the cost out to the people that are most interested
> in seeing the work done.)

There was no WG because there was insufficient consensus on just what the 
working group was supposed to do.

		--Steve Bellovin