Hi, Actually Xiaohu reminded me what triggered my work in this area.
As we all know Routing Research Group has met for number of years and as an outcome produced recommendation document which clearly states that before transitioning to loc/id split architecture operational community can use some form of aggregation where prefix growth would exceed forwarding capacity of deployed devices.
Work on VA and simple-va provides a technology to address that precise recommendation.
When IETF issues a RFC this becomes a recommendation for the community and not for WG it has been develop under. There is no reason for another last call of the set of documents in GROW WG. If there is one we need to include much broader community including mid and small operators which do not attend IETF as they will mostly benefit from this functionality.
Many of them provided vendor who supports this enhancement in production os their requirements. Some of them are in native language and not in english.
I recommend proceeding with the documents review by IESG. Otherwise I think we need to collect broader discussion when an AD is authorized to stop progressing useful and deployed technology. Our main goal in the IETF should be focused to serve operators to provide tools for them to realize new services. It should not be forum to reflect given vendor's internal preferences.
Best regards, R.
Folks, One week ago, I polled the WG in an attempt to gage interest in draft-ietf-grow-simple. The following responses were posted: - http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/grow/current/msg02228.html - http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/grow/current/msg02229.html While these two messages are not sufficient evidence of wide community interest in this draft, they do suggest that there may be interest out there. So, I will ask the chairs to conduct another WG last call on this draft. In the last call announcement, please ask folks who want the draft to be published to speak up. Silence will be interpreted as disinterest. Until the WG last call is complete, I will transition the draft to the AD-WATCHING state. Ron
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