RE: Request to advance rfc4214(bis) to standards-track through ADsponsorship

["Durand, Alain" <Alain_Durand@cable.comcast.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Baker [mailto:fred@cisco.com]
>
> On Mar 30, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> > You mentioned 'softwire' as a candiate work-group for the rfc4214 
> > (bis), but I have some concern for the charter. Since Mark 
> Townsley is 
> > the Intenet Area Advisor, I would like to ask Mark to 
> either sponsor 
> > the rfc4214(bis) as a shepherding AD or advise as to how 
> this work can 
> > be brought into the softwire wg.
> 
> then it is somewhere between you, Mark, Ron, and Dave. One 
> could argue, for example, that ISP-and-residential-customer 
> doesn't describe the whole Internet, and the softwire working 
> group should expand its scope to cover non-ISP models. I'll 
> leave that to the four of you.

The Softwire wg made a huge effort to winnow down the solutions
it was considering to standardize for both the Hub&Spoke and
the Mesh solution. We now have one single solution for each
case, and I consider this a great success, as we were not
running out of smart candidates.

I think it will be unwise to re-open this discussion now,
especially for a transition mechanism that does not fit
in the softwire problem statement:
draft-ietf-softwire-problem-statement-03.txt

Sometime less is more.

  - Alain.