On Sep 7, 2011, at 1:58 PM, Alain Durand wrote:

> Fred:
> 
> The way I phrased the call for the interim meeting on the mailling list might 
> have created some unwanted confusion.
> 
> Yong and I are going to publish the agenda for the interim meeting very soon.
> There will be ample time to discuss the various propositions on the table in 
> the 'stateless' arena (that I can define loosely as no centralized CGN)
> Some more stateless than others, some more stateful than others, some based 
> on tunnels and some based on translation.
> Giving ample time to discuss all those solution is the very reason of the 
> interim meeting.
> 
> Is that clearer?

Hopefully. There is a pretty strong concern here that the meeting is being 
arranged to encourage certain outcomes. I'd really hope for a level playing 
field, whatever the outcome may turn out to be.

>   - Alain.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
> 
>> Alain:
>> 
>> I have a question. In your recent note to softwire, you seem to be changing 
>> the charter that you and Jari stated in v6ops at IETF-81. At IETF-81, you 
>> stated that there was no need for a translation-related working group 
>> because translation (specifically the dIVI proposal, but more generally 
>> translation) would be part of the ongoing softwire charter. In your more 
>> recent statements, you appear to be saying that the topic would be discussed 
>> in a "vs" setting and buried "because the IETF has decided to not work on 
>> translation". I'll remind you that the IETF has not only chosen to work on 
>> translation, but to standardize it along with tunneling technologies.
>> 
>> I call on you to not only give lip service to discussion, but to allow and 
>> support open discussion of stateless a+p tunneling (as apposed to ds-lite, 
>> which is stateful) and translation, as you said you would.
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>>> Alain's "translation" statement is ~2hrs 57 min into the recording at:
>>> http://www.ietf.org/audio/ietf81/ietf81-205abc-20110728-1256-pm.mp3
>>> 
>>> Transcript:
>>> 
>>>  Alain: This is done in Softwire.  We are planning to organize
>>>  an interim meeting in September, in some part of the world,
>>>  to actually go through all the technical solutions that have
>>>  been put forward and analyze them and do what we did at the
>>>  beginning of Softwires.  Pretty intensive interim meeting,
>>>  locked in a room, and figure out what we need.
>>> 
>>>  Fred: So, Alain, we are finally going to have the discussion.
>>> 
>>>  Alain: We are actually going to make technical progress on
>>>  this - more than just discussing.
>>> 
>>> Jari suggested doing everything in one group (implying a new WG).
>>> 
>>>  Alain:  there are no more groups.  We will just do it now.
>> 
> 

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