Re: permanent home for ietf text conferencing

[Marshall Rose <mrose+mtr.ietf@dbc.mtview.ca.us>]

> While I applaud the use of research tools to assist in the refinement of
> protocols and requirements, isn't it a bit premature to declare a permanent
> home for IETF text conferencing when we haven't declared an IETF protocol
> for text conferencing yet?
> 
> I worry that this might send a confused message to the outside world and its
> large population of evil marketing types (as opposed to evil engineering
> types ;-) . . .).

dean - perhaps discussions of a political nature might be better served
on a different list. otherwise, someone might feel tempted to point out
some very uncomfortable truths with respect to what you've written
above...
    
/mtr