Brian,

In the two plus weeks since you sent this, I saw one email in support and none 
is opposition.  Given the lack of objections to publishing this as a Proposed 
Standard, I think OK to go forward as a PS.

Bob

On Jul 9, 2012, at 5:36 PM, Brian Haberman wrote:

> All,
>     During the IESG discussion of draft-ietf-6man-lineid, the question was 
> raised as to its appropriate status.  The WG decided to advance the draft as 
> Experimental since it had documented limitations and was targeted to a 
> limited deployment scenario.  Several ADs raised the issue that the above 
> reasons do not necessarily make the draft inappropriate for Proposed 
> Standard, To quote feedback from one of the ADs (Barry Leiba):
> 
> 
> "If the limitations are clearly documented and if that document can be used 
> to target implementations correctly, then I think PS is completely 
> appropriate.  If experimentation is needed to *determine* the limitations, or 
> to determine how to implement the specification to as not to interfere with 
> inapplicable situations, then Experimental is best."
> 
> 
> In my view, there is a clear understanding of what the limitations of this 
> approach are and they can be clearly defined in an applicability statement 
> within the draft.  Additionally, we know the deployment scenario (N:1 VLAN 
> usage in broadband networks) where this approach will be used.
> 
> My question is whether there is opposition or support within the community to 
> move the document to Proposed Standard as long as there is a sufficient 
> applicability statement included in the draft.  Please provide feedback to 
> the mailing list (and the cc:'ed ADs) on this proposed change.
> 
> Regards,
> Brian
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