Re: [Coin] Minutes of the interim meeting and some words from thecochairs

[Colin Perkins <[e-mail]>]

Toerless,

The COINRG, like every other IRTF group, has a charter that defines what is, and is not, in scope. The charter was agreed with the IAB when the group was formed, and has been reviewed since. One of the roles of the research group chairs is to interpret that charter, and ensure the group remains on topic.

If you believe the chairs are interpreting that charter incorrectly, you may appeal to me, as IRTF Chair. If you disagree with my decisions, you may appeal to the IAB.

Colin



> On 9 Mar 2022, at 19:42, Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 07:32:13PM +0000, Colin Perkins wrote:
>>> Given Colins ask to the folks like Adrian focussing on semantic addressing to first go to coin, i think any such problems should maybe start using COIN at least as a dispatch, and either the discussion about a specific topic
>> 
>> No – that is not correct.
>> 
>> What I said to Adrian was that some parts of the semantic routing work fall into the scope of COINRG, some parts overlap with other IRTF groups, and some parts are outside the scope of IRTF or are better suited to other venues. 
> 
> Ah, thanks for reminding me. I forgot that you wanted to make any useful discusion
> around the work we propose even more impossible by asking to go shopping around a variety
> of existing and non-existing RGs for any individual detail that may not fit a
> particular groups charter.
> 
>> COINRG is not a DISPATCH-style group. Work that does not relate to computation in the network research is out of scope and should be discussed elsewhere.
>> If the work does not fit within the COINRG charter, it should not be raised here. 
> 
> The COIN charter is so broadly written that everything the COIN chairs want to claim
> to be in charter they can, and likewise anything they don't, they can equally do.
> 
> Everything a network forwarding plane does is compute of how to process packets for example.
> 
> Cheers
>    Toerless