Sounding — where the discussion stands

A morning digest that tells you how far the discussions you follow have got. Self-hosted, for network engineers first.

What Sounding is

For each IETF mailing-list thread you follow, you get:

what is in dispute
how far consensus has got
what is still open
what moved since last time

RSS and Atom items go into the same digest. It does not show everything, only what matches your interest profile. It runs on your own machine and uses your own LLM key.

Where the name comes from

A sounding is a measurement of water depth, taken to find out where you are (taking soundings). To sound out is also to probe opinions and see how far agreement goes. Sounding measures where a discussion stands in a sea of primary sources, and feels out the temperature of consensus in the IETF sense. One word covers both.

Install

Docker Compose is required.

curl -sSL https://sounding.pathvector.dev/install.sh | bash

This address redirects to the install.sh attached to the latest release. You can read it first: latest release, or install.sh in the repository.

What is sent where

Output is summaries and source links only. Message and article bodies are never redistributed, and fetched bodies are deleted after the retention period.
The LLM is bring-your-own key (Anthropic or OpenAI-compatible). The default is none: nothing leaves your machine until you add a key.
Email addresses are masked before anything is sent to an LLM.
You choose how to open it: this machine only, LAN with a password, Tailscale, or Cloudflare Tunnel + Access.

Status