[RRG] RRG Meeting in San Diego

[Avri Doria <avri@psg.com>]

Hi,

We do have a slot:

FRIDAY, November 10, 2006
0900-1130 Morning Session I
Harbor Island I    	IRTF	RRG         	Routing Research Group

Tentatively Proposed Agenda:

- Update on RRG drafts

- Report from IAB Workshop on Routing - Elwyn Davies
- Report from Wired Workshop on Routing - If I can find a volunteer  
who attended
  http://wired2006.org

- Report on RRG-FS  - Dima Krioukov (asked, waiting for confirmation)
- Formal Models for Path-Vector Protocols - Aaron D. Jaggard
  http://www.math.tulane.edu/~adj/Research/index.html#net

- Discussion:  Does the RRG have a continuing purpose or should it be  
reformed/discontinued.

The RRG has been dormant for far too long and the IRSG chair, Aaron  
Falk, has questioned whether it might not be better to discontinue  
life support.  I am not sure what to answer - on one hand I have  
trouble giving up, but on the other, I don't seem to be getting  
anywhere.  While it is obvious that the need for routing research is  
real, not much of it has been happening in relation to this group.   
There are probably lots of reasons for this  and some people have  
contacted me about research they are doing but which they don't want  
to make public - reasons ranging from fear of ridicule to fear of  
academic theft.  And while there are a good number of people on the  
mailing it is unclear whether any are on the list to do research -  
the argument is that most are on the list just to make sure they find  
out what, if anything, anyone else might be doing.  This meeting  
seems a good time to take stock and discuss whether there is a good  
reason to keep this group alive in its current form.

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Anyone else who has some research they wish to report on should  
contact me soon with topic and references.  And if you already  
contacted me and I forgot to list you, please forgive me and remind me.

BTW: I had proposed bringing in a co-chair, but in discussion with  
Aaron, we decided to postpone doing that until we were sure that  
there was enough life in the RRG.

thanks
a.


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