[ipv6-wg] Promote the use of IRC

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Daniel Baeza (Red y Sistemas TVT)
<d.baeza at tvt-datos.es> wrote:
> Yesterday, I've started a discussion in the member list about promoting the
> use of IRC instead of Mail List for some kind of discussions, chit chat,
> etc.
>
> Not much members answered, but all who did said yes.
>
> The goal is to have, at least, one channel per mail list, but not limited to
> only that.
>
> For this list, an #ipv6 channel will be created and administrated by the WG
> Chairs.

[WG-chair hat on]
     What does 'administrated' mean in this case? I'd love to know
what I've been volunteered for ;)
     Especially taking into account that WG chairs have other day jobs
and are not necessary able to
     monitor IRC channel on regular basis.
[WG-chair hat off]

If people would like to have a place to informal chat nobody could
prevent them. However I have a few concerns. In particular,
segmentation of the information. IRC would one more communication
channel to track (and it is not the best one if you would like to find
out what happened while you've been on vacation, for example). We do
not have so much traffic on ipv6 mailing list so I do not see a use
case for offloading informal discussions to IRC channel to increase
signal/noise ratio.

If someone would like to have an informal chat about IPv6 @irc - there
are IPv6-related channels around so I'm inclined to use Occam's razor
here ;)


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