Re: Moving right along ...

[Stephen Trowbridge <sjtrowbridge@lucent.com>]

Kireeti,
Yes, I have discussed this with the management team of ITU-T SG 15, and
we agree that these will be made available in our new public FTP area,
with an email to you & ccamp to annouce their presence. They do want to
wait for Friday 25 October so you can get the official word on our
decisions.

On the VBI work, as you say, the results are not so urgent.
Regards,
Steve

Kireeti Kompella wrote:
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> > In addition to the time crunch, we have the issue that some comment may
> > be derived from the status of related work in Study Group 15. This has
> > been communicated before, but to summarize some results that are expected
> > by 25 October:
> > We expect consent on the following documents related to GMPLS:
> > G.ason, now numbered G.8080/Y.1304 "Architecture for the Automatic Switched
> >   Optical Network"
> > G.dcm, now numbered G.7713/Y.1704 "Distributed Connection Management"
> > G.disc, now numbered G.7714/Y.1705 "Generalized Automatic Discovery"
> > G.dcn, now numbered G.7712/Y.1703 "Architecture and Specification of
> >   Data Communications Network"
> 
> That would be very useful.  Would these be publicly available?
> 
> > We expect also to be able to report progress relating to the VBI/New
> > Equipment Partitioning work, related to OLI/LMP/NTIP work.
> >
> > While full harmonization of the ITU-T/IETF work may be out of reach
> > for the first effort, people should at least have the opportunity to
> > read the ITU-T documents and consider the impact.
> 
> While this is also very useful (I've glanced at the documents, thanks
> for the urls), as you point out, these relate to LMP-WDM, and that
> document isn't under consideration even as a WG document until we
> resolve whether the IETF or the ITU-T (or both or neither) should work
> on it.  Hopefully, we can get that resolved by the next IETF meeting.
> 
> Kireeti.