Dear TDWG groups,

I would like to inform you about a new TDWG mailing list that was created today for discussing any TDWG standard definitions on a non technical level. The new list was created to help cross pollination of ideas between the different TDWG groups and avoid the frequent duplication of work that we have encountered so often in the past years.

Every subgroup is free to decide whether they want to freeze their existing mailing list and migrate discussions to the central tdwg- content list. If you want to take this step, please let me know and I will take the required actions. A frozen mailing list will disallow any new posts or member subscriptions, but the existing archive will continue to be publicly available. An autoresponder will also be configured to inform future users of the new content list. By default I will transfer all existing subscriptions to the new list, so people don't have to subscribe again.

You can also subscribe manually to the new mailing list here: http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-content

In addition to that, the 3 existing mailing lists that deal with technical issues have already decided to hold all discussions from now on on the technical architecture group (TAG) list. The existing guid and tapir mailing lists have been frozen today.

Best wishes, Markus Döring