RE: WG Consensus Call: draft-swallow-gmpls-overlay-00.txt

[Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>]

Hi Khuzema,

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Khuzema Pithewan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Whatever u said about the responsibility of OIF, ITU-T, and IETF makes
> sense. Now we have a document from OIF, which was the responsibility of
> IETF.

It was *not* the responsibility of the IETF!!!  (This is another
example of misleading statements.)

> Can't IETF adopt that document?

It's simple: someone produce an *individual* contribution and post
it as an Internet draft.  However, I should first answer your other
point:

> ... instead
> of developing a standard from scratch?

If you read the GMPLS overlay document, you'll see that it *is not*
developing a standard from scratch.  In fact, there are no extensions,
just some slight procedural changes.

So, the alternatives are:
a) take the OIF UNI1.0 doc, remove a bunch of extensions not present
   in the IETF GMPLS, add EROs and RROs and handling procedures; OR
b) take the GMPLS doc, add nothing, subtract nothing, explain ERO and
   RRO handling and addressing ...

Which seems more rational to you?

BTW, the consensus *at the IETF* seems fairly clear.

Kireeti.