[Banana] Use of Existing IETF Protocols

[Margaret Cullen <[e-mail]>]

The current text in the charter can be interpreted to say that we intend to produce three new “BANANA protocols" for provisioning, signaling and encapsulation, even if there are existing IETF protocols that would work for that purpose.  I don’t think that was anyone’s intention.  For instance, I think we would all expect to produce a DHCP option or RA record, or something similar, for provisioning, rather than inventing a new provisioning protocol.  To make this more clear in the charter, I would propose the following change:

OLD:

The BANANA WG will consider existing IETF protocols, where applicable, as the basis for the work items listed above.

NEW:

The BANANA WG will consider existing IETF protocols, or extensions to existing IETF protocols, as the basis for the work items listed above.  If an existing protocol is used, the WG deliverable could be a document describing the use of that protocol for Bandwidth Aggregation and/or a set of options or extensions to an existing IETF protocol to make it useful for Bandwidth Aggregation.

Thoughts?

Sri, would this address your concern about the WG intending to produce three new protocols, even if suitable IETF protocols already exist?

Margaret