Hi David, I haven't yet listened to Friday's meeting, so perhaps some of my questions would be answered by that.
My understanding of the RRG's role and planned timeline is based on: http://www.irtf.org/charter?gtype=rg&group=rrg http://psg.com/lists/rrg/2007/msg00686.html (2007-12-02) The Routing Research Group (RRG) is chartered to explore routing and addressing problems that are important to the development of the Internet but are not yet mature enough for engineering work within the IETF. The group will produce a list of prioritized design goals and a recommendation for a routing and addressing architecture. - floor stays open for new innovative solutions - at the same time we encourage efforts on identifying fundamental commonalities and differences among proposals, and design tradeoffs. - starting from March'08 we will drive the group effort towards convergence - we hope to reach a final recommendation by March '09. So I understand that the RRG aims to form rough consensus for a recommendation to the IESG in March 2009 about what approaches should be recommended to the IESG for engineering development in an IETF WG. That could be zero, one or more distinct proposals, perhaps various sub-units of a complete solution, maybe two conflicting proposals or something else. I guess the preferred option is to achieve rough consensus on a single cohesive proposal or set of modular proposals which are regarded as both better than the alternatives and promising enough to use as the basis for development and deployment. Does your BOF announcement mean something like this? 1 - You think LISP is so practical and desirable that it is "the" routing scalability solution to the exclusion of others - and perhaps for other purposes. 2 - You think the RRG's timetable is too slow and due to the urgency of the situation you want to move LISP into the IETF WG phase ASAP. In the absence of further information, it is easy for me to get these impressions. Also, I don't assume that all people who have written IDs regarding LISP are part of a tight-knit team, so I don't know how much your BOF proposal reflects the intentions of all these people. I note that your announcement includes a list of the LISP IDs you presumably consider to be relevant, but that this does not include draft-lear-lisp-nerd. Your announcement lists a new ID "draft-farinacci-lisp-multicast" which hasn't been mentioned on the RRG list yet, and which can't be found at the IETF site or via Google. Some other new ones which likewise can't be found like this are: http://www.1-4-5.net/~dmm/draft-meyer-lisp-eid-block-00.txt http://inl.info.ucl.ac.be/system/files/draft-mathy-lisp-dht-00.txt - Robin -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
