On 2022-05-29, at 06:46, Mohit Sethi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear all:
> 
> This is a call for adoption of draft-bormann-lwig-7228bis 
> (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bormann-lwig-7228bis) as a LWIG 
> working group item. Please respond to this call and answer the following 
> questions by 13th June, 2022:
> 
> 1. Do you think this draft should be an LWIG working group Item?
> 
> 2. Would you contribute by reviewing this document?
> 
> 3. Would you contribute text to this document?

As a co-author, obviously my answer to all these questions is yes.

But I think it is worth pointing out why we believe this is a useful WG item.

RFC 7228 was published 8 years ago and is being referenced from about 33 RFCs 
(unfortunately, the datatracker function that gives an easy answer is currently 
not working, but an overview can be seen at [1]).

The idea was to provide common terminology that could be used to more 
productively discuss constrained node networks.  This seems to have worked in 
the IETF, not only in RFCs, but in WG discussions.  There also is impact in 
research.  Some of the 33 RFCs are IRTF documents.  But more importantly:

Google scholar finds 664 matches in scholarly documents [2]; the retrieval 
precision here may not be perfect but the number indicates a strong impact.  
Although scholars often prefer more stable references over an Internet-Draft, 
several scholarly documents already cite the somewhat more obscure 7228bis 
document (this is harder to search for in Google Scholar, but one angle is [3]).

The intention of the 7228bis document is to react what we have learned about 
terminology (and the need for terminology) in this space since 2014.
This works best if there is feedback from the WG on the terms that we are 
proposing.

So that’s why we think that 7228bis should be a WG item.

Grüße, Carsten

(Thanks to Carles for some Google scholar digging.)

[1]: https://www.arkko.com/tools/allstats/citations-rfc7228.html
[2]: 
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=terminology+constrained+node+networks&btnG=
[3]: 
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=zTRon_gAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=zTRon_gAAAAJ:NxmKEeNBbOMC
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