Re: New work items

[Eric Rosen <erosen at cisco.com>]

> If the group can't get its currently chartered multicast work completed in
> more than five years then why should we charter additional multicast work?

Could you point to the particular sentences in the charter that distinguish
what you call the "currently chartered multicast work" from the "additional
chartered work"?

If you cannot do so, then one might conclude that the new work items that
have been suggested fall under the existing charter and no rechartering is
necessary.  One might also conclude that the WG is nowhere near completing
its chartered work.

> Clearly more than six months have passed since the Dublin IETF. However,
> very considerable work has been completed since then

This isn't really accurate.  The work that was recently submitted to the
IESG was substantially completed before that time.  Since then, there was
some review during WG LC, but that was substantially completed early in
2009.

> don't expect the IESG to approve these without some guidance regarding
> what subset of the many available options we expect in interoperable
> implementations.

My practical advice would be that you shouldn't base your expectations about
this too heavily on the guidance provided in any particular document.