Re: dna bof report

["Bernard Aboba" <bernard_aboba@hotmail.com>]

> My experience has been that high level similarities between two 
> technologies
> are insufficient grounds for putting them in the same Working Group. The
> real work of producing a standard has nothing to do with the high level
> similarities, it has to do with the details of how the protocol works and
> how it fits into the existing technology base. I can see these details as
> being quite different for IPv4 and IPv6. My experience has been that WGs 
> are
> more productive when they concentrate on the details of getting a protocol
> designed. If there are still some questions about metadesign, a short
> requirements and problem statement phase (preferably before the WG is 
> formed
> to give the participants an incentive to agree) can help to clarify 
> matters.
I tend to agree, and think that things are tending this way now.  DHC WG 
will probably handle the IPv4 specific work.

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