Hi, On 2009-10-7, at 2:34, Tom Taylor wrote:
Note that the charter says PCN can define the requirements for a signalling protocol, but cannot specify the protocol itself. That means it's someone else's job to say what PCN's signalling transport is. (AD bait here -- I think thecharter was written making some unstated assumptions.)
OK, I'll bite :-)It's not so much unstated assumption as a strong desire to not charter open-ended WGs, so we tried very hard to chop off the smallest possible set of initial work items when the WG was chartered. So important stuff is missing until after a recharter (e.g., inter-domain behavior, etc.) For signaling specifically, at charter time it sounded like there were multiple different use cases (ITU-T etc.) some of which had pre-existing signaling protocols and which wanted to roll in PCN support into whatever their broader architecture was. Hence, we decided to not mandate one signaling protocol.
If that's now different, we can definitely talk about what to do at rechartering time (when a few more of your initial work items are nearing completion...)
Lars