Re: [GROW] Virtual Aggregation as GROW working group item

[Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow at gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Paul Francis <francis at mpi-sws.org> wrote:
> Is it ok if I make a few changes/fixes and then post that with the new
> naming?

s'okay by me.

>
> From:
> Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow at gmail.com>
> To:
> Paul Francis <francis at mpi-sws.org>
> Cc:
> grow at ietf.org, grow-bounces at ietf.org
> Date:
> 05/20/2009 06:38 PM
> Subject:
> Re: [GROW] Virtual Aggregation as GROW working group item
>
>
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> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Paul Francis <francis at mpi-sws.org> wrote:
>> Christopher Morrow  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Re: [GROW] Virtual Aggregation as GROW working group item
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> I THINK all that's required is a consensus that the doc should be
>>> homed in 'some group' (call it grow-wg for this discussion) and then
>>> to officially adopt it as such (via chairs sending the requested doc
>>> forward as an accepted WG doc, where it gets renamed from
>>> draft-paul-blah to draft-grow-blah)...
>>>
>>> Are there any folks attempting to block this as a work-item for Grow?
>>
>> If there are such people, I don't think they will come out until we take
>> the next step here.
>>
>> So, I suggest that we go ahead and call these grow-wg accepted
> documents,
>> and issue them under the grow name.
>
> Agreed, it's been ~3wks since the last note on VA to grow, with no
> folks piping up saying otherwise, could you re-send your doc to the
> editor with the proper naming?
>
> -Chris
>
>>>
>>> -Chris
>>>
>>> > adopting this work.  If the WG wants to do this, and if the chairs
>> want some
>>> > help dealing with any procedural obstacles, I am happy to help.
>>> >
>>> > Paul Francis wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> From:
>>> >> Paul Francis <francis at mpi-sws.org>
>>> >> To: grow at ietf.org
>>> >> Date: 04/24/2009 05:01 PM
>>> >> Subject: [GROW] Virtual Aggregation as GROW working group item
>>> >> Sent by: grow-bounces at ietf.org
>>> >>
>>> >> Gang,
>>> >>
>>> >> I would like to start the discussion of making Virtual Aggregation,
>> which
>>> >> I presented at the GROW meeting in SF, a working group item.
>>> >>
>>> >> A new version of the document has been posted, which mainly consists
>> of
>>> >> minor clarifications from folks who make up an expanded author list
>> (Zhang,
>>> >> Jen, and Raszuk).  It is at
>>> >> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-francis-intra-va-01.txt.
>>> >>
>>> >> Note that there are two companion documents associated with this,
> one
>> each
>>> >> on the specifics of MPLS and IP-in-IP tunnels in support of VA.
>>  These
>>> >> have not been updated, though we expect them to be soon.  (These are
>> at
>>> >> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-francis-va-tunnels-mpls-00.txt and
>>> >> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-xu-va-tunnels-gre-00.txt
>>> >> respectively)
>>> >>
>>> >> I think that there are mainly two things to discuss:
>>> >>
>>> >> 1.  What additional documentation, if any, is needed (requirements,
>>> >> scenarios, MIB, ....)?
>>> >> 2.  What should the status of the produced RFCs be (informational,
>> BCP,
>>> >> standard)?
>>> >>
>>> >> Regarding the first, I do think that a requirements/scenarios
>> document is
>>> >> a good idea, but would like to hear opinions.
>>> >>
>>> >> Regarding the second, there are arguments for and against each type.
>>> >> Strictly speaking no protocol changes are needed (except for a case
>>> >> involving GRE tunnels with key values, which require an extended
>> communities
>>> >> attribute to convey the key info).  So informational or BCP could
>> both work.
>>> >>  I'm inclined towards BCP, but would like to hear opinions.  Even
>> possibly
>>> >> we could start this as a working group item without making this
>> decision
>>> >> just yet.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks all,
>>> >>
>>> >> PF
>>> >>
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