--On 9. januar 2003 12:58 +0000 Matthew Robinson <matthew@crescent.org.uk> wrote: | I think I'm a little concerned that we're in danger of falling into the | 'Consignia' trap. For those who aren't in the UK, the Post Office here | decided that the way forward was to change it's name to Consignia, which | it did at huge expense only to realise that it made no difference to | what the public thought of it and it's services. I believe it has since | changed it's name back. | | My point I think is that we can change to name to something fantastic but | if people don't know what they can discuss then we'll never get new | people to join. While I have quite some sympathy for this particular point of view, I would like to point out that the cost of changing the name of the wg is not that high. I have experienced quite some confusion over the years since the split between local-ir@ripe.net (now closed list for local-ir's) lir-wg@ripe.net (now open list for matters of concern to local-ir's) now over the last couple of years the wg charter is less "matters of concern" to local-ir's and more "open forum for making policy" whats the harm in reflecting that in the name ? | Maybe we need a 'Mailing Lists' link on the RIPE website. Currently you | have to dig under Working Groups, which I think puts a lot of people off | joining. Promoting the working groups as being open and 'hey, come join | us' is, in my view, a better use of effort than name changing. Why not both ? -hph