RE: [IP-Optical] RE: Arbitrary concatenation proposals

[Vishal Sharma <vsharma87@yahoo.com>]

Scott,

Thanks very much for your clarification. It clears up a doubt I had.

While on the subject, there was a question I had posed to the ADs,
Advisors, and Chairs, regarding the recent call for soliciting "service
provider input" in various Working Groups, requesting to understant exactly 
what that
meant. My query was echoed at least by two others, Neil
Harrisson and Jerry Ash, both of whom work for service providers.

If there was a response to my question, I must have missed it.
I am including an excerpt from my email below for your reference.

Thanks,

-Vishal


On Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:54 AM, Scott Bradner [SMTP:sob@harvard.edu] wrote:
>
>
> > This is really odd.  Perhaps Eve would enlighten us on Lucent's change of
>
> I did not see a message from Lucent I saw a message from an individual
>
>  reminder - in teh IETF we operate as individuals - one should not
> extend the words of an individual to mean that an organization has
> expressed an opinion
>
> Scott


On Monday, May 28, 2001 12:59 PM, Vishal Sharma [SMTP:vsharma87@yahoo.com] 
wrote:
> Dimitri, Bala,
>
> I agree with your philosopy. Especally the part that points out that there 
are
>
<<snip>>

> As for Jerry's point, I think all he is saying is that over the last couple 
of
>
> IETFs,
> there have been formal calls by the ADs, Acting ADs, and different WG
> advisors
> to formally obtain SP input on several items (such as restoration, TE best
> practices,
> etc.), but this does not seem to have been the case for GMPLS signaling 
specs.
>
> (Of course, as Eric rightly pointed out, this does not prevent any SP or
> their
> representatives from providing such input.)
>
> Finally, and others can correct me if I am wrong, isn't there  a little bit
> of
> contradiction in the IETF stance with respect to SP input, given that
> (technically) we
> all come to the IETF, not as representatives of our companies, but rather
> as individual contributors.
>
> If so, I am a little confused about what it means
> to ask for SP input? Are we asking for individual contributors from the
> SP community, and hoping that they will bring in (by osmosis) the overall
> philosophy
> of their company, or are we asking for companies to specifically send
> their representatives to provide inputs on certain topics that have been
> deemed to require SP input?
>
> ADs, Chairs, any comments or clarifications?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Vishal