Re: (multi6) Requirement document last call /edit (let'sfocus!)

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

RJ Atkinson wrote:
> 
> At 14:36 03/01/02, Michel Py wrote:
> >There is something else we have to deal with in the current charter:
> >"Produce a document describing how multihoming is done today, including an explanation of both the advantages and limitations of the approaches".
> >
> >I do not intend to send a blow to the authors in any way, but does anybody
> >really care about it? I wonder how the chairs and the WG would feel about
> >taking that one out as part of the re-chartering. It never seemed to trigger
> >much interest. In SLC there was not even a handful of people that raised
> >their hand when asked if they have read it.
> 
> It is important to document the currently deployed multihoming approach.
> This is useful for this WG as a baseline reference.  It has broader value
> in documenting existing practice AND (perhaps more importantly) the
> limitations and scaling issues of the currently deployed approach.
> 
> Lack of reading generally just means that folks are busy -- particularly
> so during this past Autumn given the various unfortunate events in the world.

I agree that this document needs to get finished. I don't remember whether I
raised my hand or not, since I didn't read the draft in every detail,
but at a superficial level it seems fine.

   Brian