All, the Integration Panel recently discussed how best to use this list for project-wide communication. This was partially a follow-up on some of the discussions with GPs during the Singapore meeting. The general idea is to to try to use as few lists as possible and to use a publicly archived list for as much of the inter-panel and project-wide communcations as possible - so as to increase transparency of the project. If the mail traffic should become so large, that it needs to be managed, we can discuss alternate strategies when we know better what will be needed. There is one issue that's worth addressing up front and that has to do with whether a posting formally captures a decision or act by a Panel, or whether it's a more informal level of contribution to the discussion. I suspect that the minority of contributions will be "formal" statements, so a reasonable policy would be to require that those are explicitly identified as such. The presumption will then be that /*all other* /postings have not been reviewed and formally approved by the membership of the respective panel. For example, while this particular message, arose out of a discussion during an IP phone meeting, it would be a stretch to say that it represents a formal decision of or request by the Integration Panel. Therefore, under the proposed convention I would not identify it as such. From the contents, you may, of course, infer that I believe that others share my position, so that in my view that on the whole this is something more than just a personal proposal. This does leave a bit of a gray zone, but I think that we have to deal with gray zones anyway everyday, so as long as the formal decisions and actions of any panel are clearly and explicitly identified, we escape having to disclaim every other communication, which should simplify things enormously. A./ _______________________________________________ lgr mailing list lgr@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/lgr