Hi, Recently, the Operations and Management Area Directors and Geoff discussed the future of the grow working group since Geoff had indicated to us that he would like to step down as working group chair.
After review of recent activity and the milestones, it was quite clear that the working group has concluded all the milestones on the charter. We understand that, as with some of the deployment oriented working groups in the the Operations Area, that it is not uncommon to have new issues and topics arise that could fit in the charter despite the fact that all current milestones have been achieved. On the other hand, as with all IETF working groups, there comes a time to conclude a working group and we believe that we have reached that point now. We plan on effectuating this plan on Wed, March 21 if we don't receive any comments that will change our mind. We would also like to close the mailing list as we believe that the ops-area wide mailing list is a good place to do any follow up discussion if necessary. As mentioned earlier, we do want to stress that the fact that there is no working group any longer that deals with operational issues regarding scaling in the routing system doesn't mean that the Operations Area is not a good place to discuss such issues. In fact, we would like to emphasize that we are quite open to sponsor individual submissions when the need arises (eg. we are happy to take on draft-ietf-grow-mrt as an individual submission), or even spin up a new working group if we are dealing with a bigger project. In addition, we are bringing up a proposal to the Operations and Management Open Area meeting that it is perhaps time to form an "Operations and Management" working group that can fulfill a last resort role for documents that are considered important but that don't necessarily fit in any of our working groups. We envision that some of the contributions that would have fit in the grow working group can be taken up by such a working group. Also, the IETF as whole is now giving extra attention to the topic of routing and addressing, which might very well lead to new working groups that will be active in this or other areas. We obviously hope that many of you will participate in these discussions as well. Finally, we would like to thank Geoff, all the former chairpeople and obviously all the document authors and contributors to this working group for all the time they have given to this effort. Thanks! David & Dan --- _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
