Re: [dispatch] IETF 113 - do you have something for DISPATCH?

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Anton Tveretin <[e-mail]> writes:
> I wrote two I-Ds, namely, draft-tveretin-dispatch-l2tp-sdp-02 [...]

For reference:  draft-tveretin-dispatch-l2tp-sdp-02.txt is "This
document registeres new media type (application/l2tp) to be used with
SDP, and clarifies procedure to be used by peers for L2TP tunnels."

As always, the question is "How much support do you have?"  That has a
lot of aspects.  One is, "Are there people interested in working on this
document?"  Another is "Are there people interested in implementing
this?", which is closely related to, "Do people feel a unsatisfied need
that this would satisfy?"

Often the answers aren't well-correlated with, "Would this be a good
idea in principle?"

I'm reminded of when I did some work on "Happy Earballs", working out
how a SIP client should attempt to contact a SIP server in the general
case when the server's hostname resolves into multiple IPv4 and IPv6
addresses of unknown reachability.  The problem had even been raised by
some of the long-term experts in SIP.  But nobody was interested in
actually implementing it, which I strongly suspect is because in
practice SIP is used to replicate traditional telco networks, with
tightly controlled signaling paths in a network that has an overall
architecture -- if a client knows of a server's name, the architecture
ensures the addresses will connect.  (Which is much different from the
typical HTTP case.)

So the first step is what is called "socializing" your proposal, talking
to people in a fairly informal way to determine what interest you can
raise in the work.

Dale