RE: Network Configuration BOF - comments to IAB

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

[added iesg on the cc: list. Fred I assume that is OK,
 I did not see that there was anything in your email report
 that seemed for IAB only, was there?]

Fred wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Baker [mailto:fred@cisco.com]
> Sent: maandag 17 maart 2003 20:12
> To: iab@ietf.org; Bert Wijnen; Randy Bush
> Subject: Network Configuration BOF - comments to IAB
> 
> 
.. snip a lot of good stuff ..

> 
> As to whether a WG should be chartered, I think that's up to the operators. 
> If they're not going to deploy it, we shouldn't build it, and what I would 
> hope to hear is a strong message from the operator community that this 
> specifically is what they want. Given that, I think the proposal is a 
> reasonable phase I of the project.
> 

Not sure if you were still in the room at the end.
But I asked the BOF chairs explicitly to poll the OPERATORS
My reading was:

- some 30 or so operator hands went up when we specifically asked
  if OPERATORS support this work to be done
- no hands went up when we asked if there were any OPERATORS who would
  object to this work to be undertaken
- Some 10 hands went up when we asked which OPERATORS would commit
  to actively participate in a potential WG.

Randy, was your reading similar?

My own thinking is that we want/need a (co-)chair from the operator
community as well.

Bert