Re: [Banana] Reaching Consensus on Problem Statement

[Margaret Cullen <[e-mail]>]

Hi Mirja,

> Also having an agreement for the problem is of course the first step. Howeve,r my understanding from the BoF was that there are already quite a bunch of people working on different solutions. So what’s really needed is agreement on the solution (and if there is one for all or different things or multiple solutions  are needed). Only if there is a first proposal for one (or more?) protocol(s) that this group would work on, it makes sense to think about chartering.

I agree that we also need to reach consensus, as a group, on how to move forward on one or more solutions, but I don’t think we can move forward on solutions until we have:

- Consensus that we have a well-understood problem statement, and
- Consensus that we think the problem is something it would be useful for the IETF to work on.

Once we have agreement on those things, we can discuss whether it makes sense to standardize only a single solution to this problem, or whether the trade-offs between different solutions mean that more than one solution may be needed for different deployment scenarios.

Does that make sense?

Margaret