Re: A thought... Re: BOF Speakers Needed

[James Kempf <James.Kempf@Sun.COM>]

Grenville,


>> The
>> idea behind this BOF is to discuss the requirements in
>> draft-reynolds-mobile-isp-requirements-00.txt and present any additional
>> requirements for wireless ISPs.
>
>At the risk of sounding negative, I'd suggest the BOF also
>discuss how to *remove* requirements from the cited draft.
>

Sure, not negative at all. I'm a big fan of William of Occam. :-)

>Having looked through the document, it seems that upwards
>of 30% of the listed requirements aren't specific to the
>"wireless Internet" or "Mobile ISP" communities. There is
>a lot of good stuff in there that qualifies as "the functionality
>any good ISP would want to have". But I'd suggest taking scissors
>to anything that isn't specifically a unique requirement to support
>mobility or roaming. (e.g. much of the text relating to security,
>authentication, accounting, etc isn't really unique...)  You'll
>end up with a more focussed document that will make it easier to
>explain to the rest of the IETF what MORE is trying to contribute.
>

Well, like I said, the mobile operators are just getting into
this, so it is not suprising if there is some duplication.

If you have some suggestions about specific sections to remove,
please post them to the list or send them to the author.

		jak