Re: [aqm] floating a draft charter

[Mirja Kühlewind <[e-mail]>]

Hi Wes,

thanks, that's already very helpful. I was maybe even thinking about a 
milestone on something like 'requirements for initial deployment'... don't 
know if this makes sense though.

Mirja


On Thursday 30 May 2013 18:13:41 Wesley Eddy wrote:
> On 5/30/2013 8:20 AM, Mirja Kuehlewind wrote:
> > But my point is, we should not only to standardize more and more AQM
> > mechanisms because that's a large research area which maybe even should
> > be homed in the IRTF, but we need to find actually deployment strategies.
> > Having a working group on AQM will already help to make people aware of
> > the topic and maybe think about using AQM. But only standardizing more
> > and more AQM queue, might end up in investing a lot of working that
> > no-one will ever use.
>
> I suggest appending something like this to the charter:
>
>   Many AQM algorithms have been proposed in academic literature, but
>   very few are widely implemented and deployed.  A goal of the working
>   group is to produce recommendations that will actually be used, and
>   algorithms that will actually be implemented, deployed in equipment,
>   and enabled.  Towards these ends, the group actively encourages
>   participation from operators and implementers, and will coordinate
>   with the IETF OPS area and other relevant parts of the IETF and
>   Internet community.  Wider research and evaluation of AQM mechanisms
>   shall be coordinated with the IRTF/ICCRG, and significant
>   participation in this WG from the academic and research community is
>   highly desirable, when it is directly relevant to implementation and
>   deployment.
>
>
> We will definitely need to get engagement from some of the operators
> that participate in the IETF, and should solicit participation more
> widely outside as well (e.g. advertise to NANOG list, bufferbloat
> list, etc.) in order to attract operators and implementers that aren't
> already aware of this activity.
>
> Would this help to address your concern?