[ESDS] ESDS BOF approved, and comments

The ESDS BOF request was approved by the IESG and IAB today, although  
the discussion raised quite a few questions not answered in the  
overview or drafts.  I've forwarded one of the comments received  
(below) and I'm working with the other commenters on either  
forwarding their issues or scheduling a conversation with the draft  
authors.

FYI, the date of the BOF meeting is not yet known, because the agenda  
has not yet been built.  However, the Apps Area people traditionally  
meet Monday Morning and discuss various topics of interest.  The  
Sunday reception is also a great time to meet people and arrange  
conversations for later in the week. 	

Thanks,
Lisa Dusseault

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Elwyn Davies <elwynd@dial.pipex.com>
> Date: January 31, 2008 6:06:02 AM PST
> To: IAB <iab@ietf.org>rg>, "Iesg (E-mail)" <iesg@ietf.org>
> Subject: ESDS BOF comments
>
> ...The proposed charter (http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/esds/ 
> current/msg00020.html)
> appears enormous (17 work items).
>
> The charter appears to envisage both the schema and the protocol  
> work (indeed at least 3 protocols).
>
> Given the concerns about reusing/adapting/overloading DNS I don't  
> see much work in the charter relating to the distributed storage  
> system that probably needs to be addressed before designing both  
> the schema and the protocols - or maybe it is subsumed in item 11..  
> but I would have thought that needed to come earlier.
>
> The charter doesn't offer a timescale:  Further to Dave's concerns  
> about the constituency, are there enough people interested in the  
> project to carry throigh such a large work program?
>
> Elwyn
>
>