Worry item, and sunday agenda: Directorates?

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

Over the years, I've somehow landed on some directorate lists.
They vary very much in how much they are used.
So I looked around...

Directorate	Last mail	Traffic level

dns		04-03		~20 msgs/month (dead in Dec/Jan, though)
ipv6		14-05-2002	Dead
saag		07-03		3-4 msgs/month
subip		20-12-2002	Very few since April 2002
transport	03-03		bursty, 20-exchange discussions every 2 mnth
wireless	07-01		died out in sept 2002

directorates have had a number of good properties attributed to them, 
including the ability to interact with larger segments of the "leaders" of 
the community to make sure noses are pointed in the same direction (no 
comment about whether it's our noses or their noses that should change 
direction...), a place to make sure things that span WGs or aren't WG-ready 
can get an airing before making decisions, and so on.

But my look at mailing lists seems to indicate another pattern:

Directorates die.

Your thoughts?

                Harald