Route Exclusion

["Adrian Farrel" <afarrel@movaz.com>]

Kireeti, Ron,

You may recall that at SF there was a surprisingly large number of people (30+)
who had read this draft and expressed an interest. (In today's climate, it seems
unusual if all of the authors have read a draft!)

We (the authors) are also seeing a fair bit of interest expressed to us from
people who need the function and want to go ahead and start implementing - they
want to know what the future of the draft is. At the same time, the ASON work
seems to be pulling in this requirement, and I shouldn't be surprised if
multi-area/multi-domain/multi-AS decides it is a requirement, too.

So the question for you is, what do we do with this draft?

There appear to be three possibilies:

1. The draft becomes a WG draft in the near future, and continues to develop
with input from the WG.

2. The authors continue to spend their efforts on the draft with no particular
IETF target in sight and without the GMPLS community having any realistic
expectation of the draft going anywhere. Other standards bodies, needing the
function, develop their own alternatives and so on...

 3. The authors bring the draft forward as an individual submission to the IESG.

 Well, you can guess which I think is the best idea.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Adrian