Re: [homegate] Proposed Charter Update - 2010/09/09

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

At 10:56 PM -0400 9/9/10, David Harrington wrote:
>Initial can be individual, adopted later.
>Arch doc can morph while the WG decides on scope and priorities, and
>finish after recharter.
>I don't see a problem.
>
>Maybe we have different assumptions about the contents of the arch
>doc.
>Home networks take many forms, so I don't see one stable architecture.
>If the WG reaches consensus on home network arch contents and finishes
>earlier than I anticipate, that's fine.

OK, that all makes sense. It's not what we typically see IESG members asking for, but if you're willing to defend this charter to the IESG, that's good enough for me.

>Ray raised a point - is the arch doc about home network design, or is
>it a framework that describes how various technologies (the seven
>bullets) fit together?

It should be both. We can then see if we believe that things actually "fit together".

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium