Re: [PWE3] historical overview?

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Maarten Vissers wrote:

> The PWE3 Charter web page http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/pwe3-charter.html
> presents to date two Internet-Drafts (PWE3 requirements and framework).

That should shortly become three; the protocol layering draft:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pwe3-protocol-layer-00.txt

had one final proofing and was sent in last night and approved as a WG
draft, and the email announcement about it should be trickling through
ietf-announce and appear here soon.


> This is a kind of poor overview of all the work being done and still
> ongoing.

The charter webpage is not meant to be an overview of all the work
being done, but of the work being done that is on-charter, in-scope,
and accepted as being in the direction of the WG. Hence Danny's recent
email about accepting more drafts as WG drafts.

(As I've said before, it would be good if the twenty or so authors of
the three or so competing frame relay drafts could get together and
work something out that could be adopted as a workgroup draft, for
example.)


> Therefore my question if it would be possible to extend the web page with a
> section providing kind of a historical overview of the documents that are at the
> moment still proposals (i.e. not yet accepted by the WG but for which a lot of
> work is ongoing).

That would be tantamount to the WG endorsing all those drafts; sets a
bad precedent for other workgroups, and confuses readers as to the
WG's intended direction. (And would probably involve rewriting the WG
charter...)

If you really want a historical overview of work related (both
closely and tangentially) to PWE3, I would suggest
http://www.watersprings.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=PWE3&idxname=id&sort=date%3Alate

and wading through the 83 documents presented.

L.


> With a list of deliverables identified under goals and objectives, I would
> expect the overview to include:
> - TDM circuit
> - SONET
> - ATM
> - Ethernet
> - Frame Relay
> - MIBs

Ah, deliverables.

The objective is not a set of deliverables.
The goal is multiple interoperable implementations.

<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>




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