Re: [Can] Formation of CATS (was CAN) Working Group

[Adrian Farrel <[e-mail]>]

Many thanks, John.

Hello working group!

Peng and I will be meeting tomorrow to start planning for Yokohama. We expect to come back to you with a call for presentations, and with a draft agenda.

Meanwhile, please post your drafts. Don't forget to call them draft-yourname-cats-....

Best,
Adrian

-----Original Message-----
From: John Scudder <[e-mail]> 
Sent: 02 March 2023 16:59
To: [e-mail]
Cc: Adrian Farrel <[e-mail]>; Peng Liu <[e-mail]>; James Guichard <[e-mail]>
Subject: Formation of CATS (was CAN) Working Group

Hi All,

There is good news, we will be forming the WG as hoped, with the first meeting at IETF 116. Thanks again to all the hard work by the proponents, BOF chairs, WG chairs, and participants. This was approved at today’s IESG meeting, I expect the formal announcement will be coming along soon.

As you know there was quite a bit of discussion about what name the group should have. After carefully considering all the points raised, and consulting with Jim Guichard who will be the group’s AD going forward from IETF 116, we will call the group Computing-Aware Traffic Steering, CATS. This name has the advantage of both being cool, but more importantly, precisely reflecting the mission of the group as documented in the charter for which we have community consensus. I realize it’s not everyone’s first choice but I hope we will all agree that by far the most important thing is we have a working group now and we can get on with the chartered work, and that the name is secondary.

We will close the [e-mail] mailing list soon, and subscribe all those on it to [e-mail]. The IETF Secretariat will also be making other necessary updates to Datatracker to support the rename, over the next few days.

Regards and Congratulations,

—John