This is an excellent review. More below. On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:11 PM Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking agin at the document, I have multiple problems with adoption of > this document. > > First, as just discussed, it seems to be laying out an archtiecture, but > that architecture is not consistent with the other work going on in the > IETF (specifically in the routing area, and known to many of the > co-authors of this work.) > > Second, the document states that it is Informational, and then is > written as if it is defining the one and only way to structure the > needed system. > > Third, related to the second, this document seems to assert that there > is a specific and correct way to use IETF technology to solve the > problem. Then, about three quarters of the way through it remembers > that there are multiple alternatives for some parts. The IETF rarely > writes implementation specifications. There are other SDOs that do so. > This reminds me what is happening in quic WG which keeps producing implementation specs. > They can wrestle with the problem of defining something that can be > utilized by multiple operators with varying constraints. Why would we > want to get into trying to have that fight? > > For the WG chairs, I am trying to figure out how this even fits the DMM > charter. It is a LOT more than network exposure, which is the closest I > can see in the charter. > > I had raised this charter issue long time before. I pointed out that dmm has to recharter and even maybe make a BOF before working on these. They have all been ignored. Hope that they won't this time :) Folks, +1 on all counts. I have to clarify that this mail is nothing personal, I know some authors, they are my friends, the chairs are my friends. No offense to anyone. Happy New Year! Behcet > Yours, unhappily, > Joel > > > > _______________________________________________ > dmm mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmm >
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