Re: [Banana] Final(?) BANANA Charter Text

[Margaret Cullen <[e-mail]>]

Hi Phil,

> On Sep 20, 2017, at 4:59 AM, <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> What I want to make sure is that the protocols developed in work items 2 & 3 don’t assume or depend on the solution used for work item 4 (the "encapsulation"). Since there's work elsewhere in IETF on MPTCP and other possibilities. 
> I'm not sure the current wording is quite right ("additional" encapsulations" may give the wrong impression?).  
> maybe some wording on the lines:  
> it is assumed that there may be several alternative Banana encapsulation solutions, hence it is the aim of the WG that the protocols developed in work items 2 & 3 can work with different encapsulations / don’t restrict the encapsulation used / or something like this…

This is a good point.  I think there is general agreement about this, which is _why_ we split the signaling protocol off from the “encapsulations”, but it probably would make sense to make this more explicit.  I will try to come up with full wording for a proposed change and request feedback on it in another thread.
> 
> I also think that the term "encapsulations" will be confusing in the future when the caveat doesn’t appear in close proximity (ie when your warning "the use of the term “Encapsulation” does not mean that all BANANA Encapsulations will add an explicit encapsulation header" isnt in an adjacent sentence). Sorry, I don’t have alternative wording at this moment. 

I think we would all like a better word for “encapsulations”, but it is not clear what that word would be.  For a while, we were saying “transports”, but then the tunnel-based approaches didn’t fit in.  I am not sure what better wording would be, either…

> Margaret said:
> << I have proposed three changes to the charter to address issues that have been discussed on the list.  They can be found in three separate threads under the following subjects:
> 
> - Add mention of NAT/remove GRE
> - Problem Statement
> - Use of Existing IETF Protocols
>>> 
> For me, the changes improve the charter.

Thanks for the feedback!

Margaret