Re: [Dcrouting] [Rift] kicking off the charter discussion

[Alvaro Retana <[e-mail]>]

On January 5, 2018 at 5:48:23 AM, Robert Raszuk ([e-mail]) wrote:

Robert:

Hi!  Happy New Year!

Do we really need yet one more new routing protocol vs relatively minor
extension of existing link state protocols ?


That was pretty much the question asked during the dcrouting BOF in
Singapore.  Starting from the assumption that one size doesn’t fit all, the
room showed interest in working on solutions beyond the current work in
isis/ospf (which was also quickly reviewed there).

To be clear, the intent of chartering rift doesn’t mean that work in other
WGs (including new proposals) should stop.  Quite the contrary, if there is
sustained interest in this effort, then we will go on with it — if there
isn’t (for whatever reason), then it will be clear as well.  Note that I
asked the proponents to constrain the proposed charter to work items that
should be able to be delivered within a short timeframe (around a year) —
so that we can reassess the interest, and re-charter if appropriate.

The above obviously applies to the lsvr (aka BGP-SPF) proposal, so I’m
cc’ing that list here to avoid repeating the discussion there.  Also, I
noticed you forwarded your message to dcrouting, so I’m cc’ing that list as
well.

Thanks!

Alvaro.