Re: New work items

[<benjamin.niven-jenkins at bt.com>]

Eric, Colleagues


On 21/09/2009 16:49, "Eric Rosen" <erosen at cisco.com> wrote:
> Ross> I suppose that the IDR charter could be re-written to say a very
> Ross> simple "work on BGP enhancements forever". This would be a pretty
> Ross> accurate top-level description of what IDR does, and might not be all
> Ross> that different from the L3VPN WG's charter's current description of
> Ross> multicast work
> 
> I think that's a fairly good model, as it allows for relatively quick
> response to customer demands.  In many cases features are going to get
> implemented anyway, and the IETF should encourage, not discourage, the
> creation of public specifications for IETF review.  If the IESG had to
> pre-approve the addition of every new BGP feature to the IDR charter, the
> IDR WG would be a lot less useful.

My understanding (which of course could be wrong) was the purpose of
re-chartering was not to artificially restrict what L3VPN related things
could be worked on but rather to say "these are some specific work items we
think we will likely focus on as we see a demand for them now or in the near
future"


Ben