[Idr] BGP Autoconf design team

[John Scudder <[e-mail]>]

Hi Everyone,

After some delay :-( we have a design team to announce. The team is initially chartered to consider requirements and review the solution space (notably including existing proposals). 

Here are the IESG guidelines on design teams: https://ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/design-teams/ . We plan to stick to these guidelines. They’re short, you can just read them, but here’s one excerpt that addresses the most common concern: "The key point here is that the output of a design team is input to a working group, not a final document. Such a document must not be considered as more important than any other input to the working group.”

What we would like from the design team is proposed requirements and solution space outline to guide our discussion as a WG in producing a solution (which will likely include one or more interim meetings). The design team isn’t forbidden from suggesting a solution, but it’s not one of our specific requests to them.

We had many volunteers for the team, thanks to all of you for volunteering and if you’re not on the team, breathe a sigh of relief :-) and be ready to jump in to the next step.

Jie Dong has agreed to chair the group, thanks Jie. We’ve created a mailing list, bgp-autoconf, for the list members to use for discussion amongst themselves. Mailing list archive can be found at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/bgp-autoconf/

Group members are:

Randy Bush
Jie Dong
Jeff Haas
Warren Kumari
Acee Lindem
Mankamana Mishra
Robert Raszuk
Jeff Tantsura
Xiaohu Xu

Thanks,

—John