[governance] Idea of Instant Messaging for IGCaucus

[Johan Helsingius]

On 29-07-19 08:43, Imran Ahmed Shah (via governance Mailing List) wrote:

> IGC Mailing lists had been an openly viewable platform with subjective
> discussion where everyone can reply in his/er own peace time. Very
> positively served its purpose for last 15+ years. However, I am opening
> a discussion thread for kind review and discussion among the caucus;
> that how much it is useful and practical, if we could also (be able) to
> have (some kind of) instant messaging platform for the IGC Caucus.

Email is still the major tool for communication that needs to be
recorded and accessible. I don't really see what additional benefits
or functionality IM would bring (and note that IM and email has
coexisted for at least 30 years without IM replacing email). The
other problem is that all email systems are pretty much interoperable,
while Im systems aren't, so with IM you would have to pick one
of the many incompatible systems in use, and would cut out users
of other systems.

	Julf