Re: [grobj] Referral definition and its purpose?

[Sheng Jiang <[e-mail]>]

> IETF/IRTF work that I can think of that is relevant: NSIS, EME
> research group, the MPLS one about using management entities to set up
> LSPs, Shim6, MPTCP, LISP.  I'm sure there are more.  But those are all
> about mechanisms for determining good paths.  GROBJ is about how to
> represent referrals.  GROBJ shouldn't concern itself with how paths
> are chosen, just with how to represent those results.

Oops... We are not discussing GROBJ anymore though we are still use 
grobj mail list. The new BoF we proposed for next IETF is Refer BoF. The 
current charter is to study the problem of referral and the 
correspondent requirements. (We may move to a nre refer mail list later 
if needed.)

The reason is when we had GROBJ BoF back in Horishima, we found out 
people, even ourselves, did not understand the referral scenarios deep 
enough. So, we took a step back to study the referral problems. After 
that, we may continue to define referral transfer mechanisms/protocols, 
and the format of referral information. By that time, we may choose 
GROBJ appoarch. But at this stage, we don't want and should not discuss 
Grobj as we have made choice.

I would like to draw our discussion back to referral definition, 
scenarios and how it can help.

Regards,

Sheng