Re: SONET/SDH label agreement for IETF, ITU-T and OIF

[Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>]

Hi All,

Here's what we got for each option:

1) Trowbridge, Brungard, Vainshtein, Eve Varma, Natale, Juergen, Ash,
   Aboul-Magd, Mack-Crane, Sadler, Sankaranarayanan, Yangguang,
   Zhi-Wei Lin, Silman Lionel, Vissers, Hai Vodinh, Monica Lazer,
   Aguirre-Torre, Kalmanek, Yates, Molinari, Caviglia, Guangzhi Li,
   Dongmei, John Strand.
-> 25

2) Papadimitiriou, Mannie, Bala, Drake, Zhensheng, Kakutam, Saha,
   Ayan Banerjee, Sudheer, Cheng, Dan Guo, TOMOHIRO OTANI, Grammel,
   van_den_bosch, Rousseau, Dieter Beller, Gert Van Hoey, Yakov Rekhter,
   Jonathan Lang, Lou Berger (4/2), Jim Jones, Luc Ceuppens, Hug Werner,
   Emmanuel.Desmet.
-> 23.5

3) John Fee, Curtis Brownmiller.

4) Greg, Sharma, Meehan, Lou Berger.

There were some ambiguous "votes": Lou Berger was counted in 2, as
there wasn't much support for 4.  Meehan seemed to say that 1 was
not acceptable in its current form, but he mentioned both 4 and 1.

If we missed your "vote", or misinterpreted it, please let us know.

Some of you have noticed that "voting" went on past the deadline.
I haven't broken out results by dates.  The deadline was only to
give Eric time to produce a document that matched the consensus;
however, as there wasn't any clear consensus, Eric produced an
interim document just so that there is a basis for discussion.

Others noticed that many folks from the same company voted the
same way.  I didn't :-)  The IETF does not recognize companies
when it comes to consensus decisions -- it's just individuals.

THE OUTCOME IS: no consensus.  Note that these are *not* votes.
In a face-to-face meeting, consensus would mean that the people in
favor of some option raised their hands, and it was obvious without
actually counting that those were by far the biggest group.

So, on to Plan B.  A closed group, including some of the authors,
the chairs and the ADs will meet at the IETF, and see if we can
craft a document that those present will sign off on.  If so, that
version will be published, and there will be a 2 week Last Call
period after the IETF so that everyone in the CCAMP community can
comment on the result.  Note that this Last Call will be limited
to the SONET/SDH issue: i.e., the changes between the current
version of the document and the new version that we (hopefully)
will have after the IETF.

Ron and Kireeti.