[Bier] status of draft-ietf-bier-oam-requirements

[Tony Przygienda <[e-mail]>]

Dear BIER WG participants, situation of
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bier-oam-requirements/ is
unsatisfactory at this point in time.

The draft was adopted around 2015 but did not elicit any comments or
significant technical changes for the 5 years following or during the WGLC
(which was bundled with 2 other drafts on top). Only activity were some
private discussions among the authors as to the content of the authors
list. A shepherd was assigned quite a while ago, no write-down was provided
and no activity was seen. Given that the response to authors as to their
participation and call for two volunteers to act as editors met with, ehem,
underwhelming response, it looks like we may be flogging a dead horse
forward here towards publication.

Hence, I would suggest that we call a WG LC consensus again to gauge the
interest on this draft. We will need multiple people across multiple
organizations explaining support with more than just "+1" mail and
obviously having read the draft and ideally commenting why they think this
draft is WGLC ready & should be published. On top I suggest that we need
the shepherd to read/comment on the draft. If we get that together then the
document should be forwarded towards IESG (with diminished authors' list
per latest feedbacks given) or otherwise we move it to "Dead WG Document"
status and we may warm it up in the future should the interest perk up.

Opinions? Otherwise the according calls will go to the list in next couple
days ...

thanks

--- tony