Re: [babel] Status and Winding down the BABEL WG

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> Wed, 14 September 2022 14:44 UTC

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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
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Subject: Re: [babel] Status and Winding down the BABEL WG
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> Based on discussions the BABEL WG Chairs had with Andrew Alson, our AD, and
> some of the active members of the WG, there is a tentative plan to close the
> BABEL WG in about six months and probably add a "BABEL Maintenance" item to the
> MANET WG Charter. Even if that were not done, future BABEL RFCs could be done
> through AD sponsorship or through the Independent Submission process. And the
> babel@ietf.org mailing list would very likely remain open.

This is reasonable because the Babel RFCs specify that the relevant IANA
registries obey the « Specification needed » allocation policy.  This
means that a new TLV number can be allocated by an Informational RFC, or
even with no RFC just by publishing a specification on the web.

-- Juliusz