Given discussion during the meeting, I agree with the design team recommendation that HNCP should implement the router protocol selection mechanism (that hopefully would select the most ubiquitously supported router protocol). This would allow HNCP to proceed without a mandatory-to-implement routing protocol decision, successfully work with the protocol we do select, and (as Russ described) potentially allow for a different / better protocol to eventually supersede the protocol we choose this year.
Per Ray's statements, I expect there will be a draft created that clarifies the unclear requirements and provides some assessment of the 2 candidates against these clarified requirements. Hopefully this will be quick. But in any case, it shouldn't delay HNCP. If clarity still does not disqualify either protocol, I am very, very, very willing to accept the coin toss approach. Barbara > -----Original Message----- > From: homenet [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian E > Carpenter > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 12:34 PM > To: Sander Steffann > Cc: [email protected] Group; Margaret Cullen > Subject: Re: [homenet] Routing Protocol in HNCP > > Hi Sander, > > On 23/07/2015 04:06, Sander Steffann wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > > >> If that makes sense (for any value of IsBabeliS) I don't think we have a > problem. > >> I would suggesting adding text near the beginning stating that HNCP > >> is agnostic about the routing protocol, but that a single routing protocol > must be used. > > > > And that "single routing protocol" is ... ??? > > Irrelevant to *this* discussion. If we want to get the HNCP draft out of the > door, we need it to be independent of the choice. > > > This basically just ignores the problem > > No it doesn't. It says that it's an orthogonal problem. > > > that a routing protocol must be chosen and might even open the door to > vendor A saying "our single routing protocol is X" and vendor B saying "our > single routing protocol is Y". This decision has to be made at some point... > > Yes, but it's a different decision from "Do we have consensus on HNCP?". > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
