Dear Nigel, On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 03:30:36PM +0000, Nigel Titley wrote:
Discussion on the db-wg mailing list has sometimes been difficult to kick start. As Denis says, we then tend to bring it up at the DB WG meeting at RIPE and raise an action on the RIPE NCC based on the discussion at that meeting.
I personally see no difference between online (db-wg@) and offline (RIPE[0-9]+), and little value in regarding RIPE meetings as a "flag day" of sorts. I'd want to avoid a loop from mailing-list to meeting back to mailing-list due to community indecisiveness. :-) We can ask the RIPE NCC communications department to help engage our community in conversations on this mailing-list. Maybe they can do a tweet "Spring clean-up: Do you like or dislike the 'referral-by' attribute? Have you ever used it? Voice your opinion on db-wg@ripe.net!". Already 6 people are involved, and importantly: with quite unanimous sentiment. Why would we not try to reach consensus in the next four weeks? Kind regards, Job