[Nea] NEA charter query

["Stephen Hanna" <shanna at juniper.net>]

Khaja Ahmed recently asked this question of the NEA chairs:
> Given that we cannot discuss requirements that pertain to
> internet wide usage, can we still discuss potential impact
> of such a protocol if it were to be used in place it is not
> designed for? ...i.e. the internet.

The applicability limitation in our charter restricts our focus
to "computing enterprise environments, where endpoints accessing
the enterprise's network are owned and/or expected to conform to
the policies set forth by the organization that owns and operates
the network." But this does not mean that the NEA protocols will
only be carried over the enterprise network. Enterprises often
use protocols over the Internet and it's not unlikely that NEA
protocols might have to transit the Internet in a remote access
scenario (with an appropriate PT).

So we should expect the NEA protocols to be used on the Internet
and include relevant requirements in our requirements document
(security, congestion control, loss, wide variations in round
trip time, etc.). But we should not cover non-enterprise use cases
or situations where the endpoint is not owned by or expected to
conform with the policies of the organization that owns and operates
the network.

Thanks,

Steve

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