How about give different milestones to different items, with some later
milestones? The chairs enforce more strictly the deadlines.

Thanks!

Richard


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Reinaldo Penno (repenno) <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  I do not support all 7. In my opinion it will be more we can deliver.
>
>  The original charter was around, say, 15 months and 4 documents and we
> are late by 2 years.
>
>  I think we need a charter with a small number of documents we can
> deliver in a short timeframe.  Nothing wrong to continue to work on other
> extensions in the meantime and including then in another recharter.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>
>   From: "Y. Yang" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, January 24, 2014 at 7:53 PM
> To: Vijay Gurbani <[email protected]>
> Cc: alto <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [alto] Work items for re-chartering
>
>   Dear all,
>
>  I support all of the 7 items. They provide key functions that together
> will both fill some gaps in the base ALTO protocol and extend ALTO to be
> more useful. As more networks open up to applications (e.g., some recent
> major movement by ChinaTelecom), the new functionalities can be quite
> helpful to allow ALTO to make a bigger impact!
>
>  Richard
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Vijay K. Gurbani <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Folks: Over the last few IETFs, Enrico and I have solicited feedback
>> during face-to-face meetings, WG sessions, hallway conversations, ALTO
>> mailing list and private conversations on how to move ahead with respect
>> to adopting new work items.
>>
>> As we begin the charter discussions, we have identified seven
>> work items to propose as additions to the charter.  The first four of
>> these work items are fairly uncontroversial.  The last three are work
>> items that have a monumental mind share in the ALTO working group and
>> have been found to be extremely useful in controlled networks (e.g.,
>> VPNs).  However, we have to take some care in defining these such that
>> we do not duplicate the functionality available elsewhere (e.g., general
>> routing) in ALTO, nor do we take on an aspect that the working group
>> does not fully understand.
>>
>> Here are the seven items up for discussion:
>>
>> 1. Anycast-based server discovery
>>    (Presented by Reinaldo Penno in IETF 86 and appears to have
>>    some support for adoption.)
>>
>> 2. Third-party server discovery
>>    (Sebastian Kiesel et al. have been driving this work and it
>>    also appears to have support.)
>>
>> 3. Incremental ALTO map updates
>>    (Side meeting held during IETF 86; two proposals have been
>>    studied.  One way forward is to use an ALTO-specific incremental
>>    update that may be more efficient, and the second approach is to
>>    simply use JSON patch.)
>>
>> 4. Server-initiated update notifications
>>    (Jan Seedorf and Enrico Marocco have suggested the use of
>>    Websockets; HTTP/2.0 may provide some mitigation as well.)
>>
>> 5. Extensions to annotate PIDs with properties (e.g., geographical
>>    locations).
>>    (Useful as an extension in controlled environments, e.g., VPNs
>>    where IP addresses are not the only form of identification.
>>    Some drafts, including draft-roome-alto-pid-properties
>>    has already started work in this direction.)
>>
>> 6. Extensions for cost metrics.
>>    (Some drafts, including draft-wu-alto-json-te, have started work
>>    in this direction.)
>>
>> 7. An ALTO format for encoding graphs.
>>    (draft-ietf-alto-protocol already recognizes the need to provide
>>    topology details that are useful in controlled environments.
>>    Richard Yang, Greg Bernstein and others have been working on the
>>    need and use cases for such an encoding.  draft-yang-alto-topology
>>    is a good start.  Projects like OpenDayLight and NetworkX (Python)
>>    have JSON models for graph representation.  Some concrete examples
>>    of how we envision encoding graphs will be useful during list
>>    discussion.)
>>
>> We will like to understand whether the working group believe such
>> additional deliverables, if included in an updated charter proposal,
>> would allow people to do the extension work that has been repeatedly
>> proposed. (Clarification: we are explicitly asking whether people could
>> find such an update acceptable. We understand that anyone will have a
>> preferred flavor of the above.)
>>
>> We are at a point where show of support by whoever is interested is
>> essential for moving forward. If it turns out to be positive, Enrico
>> and I will subsequently circulate actual text, including milestones, for
>> a rechartering request.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> - vijay
>> --
>> Vijay K. Gurbani, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
>> 1960 Lucent Lane, Rm. 9C-533, Naperville, Illinois 60563 (USA)
>> Email: vkg@{bell-labs.com,acm.org} / [email protected]
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