RE: I-D ACTION:draft-andersson-mpls-g-chng-proc-00.txt

["Brungard, Deborah A, ALABS" <dbrungard@att.com>]

Maybe lets go back to my hopefully simple question, will the liaison process be included in this draft or not? I (thought) the answer was no. Maybe best to clarify. And not that it is not important, all the mail agrees it is important. Then we can work from this draft with comments, recognizing the liaison process will be separate, e.g. where the draft discusses other sdos, we can add text to clarify.

One comment on all of this from an ITU/T1X1 history, it is difficult to say apriori how a liaison will be processed. We do not have such a process either. Several ways exist to respond:
1. simple thank you for the information
2. here's the answer/clarification based on current work
3. for a quick answer, at the meeting, have a breakout group to address a proposal
4. for new work, send a response saying we invite contributions to our future meetings to progress
   - if no contributions, not anything is done (yes we have done this too)
   - at the next meeting, send several proposals to the other group for their review

I had understood this draft as including option 4. Other mails are raising the concern, as in the past, if no response to the other sdo, the other sdo can not determine the status of the work. That can be part of the liaison process.

Let's first clarify, do we want this draft to include the liaison process or should we do it separate (in parallel?)?

Deborah



-----Original Message-----
From: Wijnen, Bert (Bert) [mailto:bwijnen@lucent.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:47 AM
To: Kireeti Kompella; Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
Cc: Scott W Brim; ccamp@ops.ietf.org; mpls@UU.NET
Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-andersson-mpls-g-chng-proc-00.txt


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kireeti Kompella [mailto:kireeti@juniper.net]
> Sent: donderdag 27 februari 2003 10:09
> To: Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
> Cc: Scott W Brim; ccamp@ops.ietf.org; mpls@UU.NET
> Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-andersson-mpls-g-chng-proc-00.txt
> 
> 
> Hi Bert,
> 
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> 
> > No of course NOT. Many Liasons will want an answer.
> > So we need a process to follow up and to track if a timely
> > response has been (or will be) send.
> 
> Is the IETF process for replying to liaison statements (and of
> generating them) written down, say in some RFC?  If so, could you
> send me a pointer?
> 
Unfortunately, I don't think the process for that has been defined.
That is why I said that "we need a process..."
We do not have it yet (I think... at least I do not know it either).
I think we were all just hoping people would take responsibility and
do the right things... but as we know that is how things fall through
the cracks.

> > But the Liasons communication between ITU and CCAMP/MPLS has not
> > been going smoothly so far (even though we had good intentions).
> > Responses have not gone out in time (or in some cases at all).
> 
> I'll take full responsibility for that.
> 
W.r.t. CCAMP I will share some of the responsibility too. I should 
also have kept a better eye on it.

Bert
> Thanks,
> Kireeti.
>