John, some replies are inline below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John E Drake [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:11 PM
> To: Henderson, Thomas R; Richard Ogier; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [OSPF] Adoption of "Single Hop MANET Interface" as WG
> Document
> 
> Tom,
> 
> The primary point of my email was Richard's presumptuousness.
> 

I agree that it may be presumptuous to ask a WG to adopt an as-yet-unpublished 
draft.  However, I for one would like to understand better the decision that is 
being taken in adopting an update of RFC 5820 to solve the use case of 
draft-nsheth-ospf-hybrid-bcast-and-p2mp-01.  Would similar future updates of 
the other MANET RFCs be precluded by such a decision?  Does this mean that 
ospf-hybrid-bcast-and-p2mp-01 will not be considered further as a WG document?

Perhaps we could try to clarify whether the WG intention is to update the 
Experimental RFCs along these lines or rather to work on a single specification 
for the use case introduced by draft-nsheth-ospf-hybrid-bcast-and-p2mp-01.

> The comment about having multiple protocols to do the same thing being
> a bad idea was simply a comment in passing.  And it is a bad idea -
> this was the rationale given by the IETF in taking a position against
> multiple OAM protocols for MPLS-TP.
> 

I understand, but this is one rationale for the experimental track; see for 
example 
http://www.ietf.org/iesg/informational-vs-experimental.html (Section 3 item 4)

- Tom
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