Re: WGs/AD [IETF areas re-organisation steps]

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 26/12/14 19:40, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 27/12/2014 06:46, Alia Atlas wrote:
> ...
>>> I'm a little bit surprised that the RTG area load has gone up like this,
>>> and so quickly.  Is it the various SDN things that are pushing this, or is it
>>> that the RTG area currently has the most enthusiasm for YANG work?
>>>
>>
>> It's a mixture of things combined with RTG already being at the very top edge
>> of workload.  In RTG we have/will have about 21 active WGs; if we add a
>> third routing AD,
>> then RTG will absorb 3 WGs from INT.  Granted that one is not active and may
>> be merged in, we are still looking at about 23 WGs for RTG with a more
>> average load being about 8 WGs/AD.
> 
> So let's be frank about this. Today (excluding the General Area AD
> with his crippling load of 1 WG) we have 129 WGs for 14 Ads,
> which is 9.2 WGs/AD. That is clearly too many, so should there
> be a target ratio and a plan for reaching it?

I don't think so. There are just huge differences in how different
WGs impinge on AD workload. I think we should look to try to spot
any imbalances that exist and adjust where needed. We do that already
within the SEC area, and ADs in other areas also do, but I don't
think we can use a number-of-WGs-per-AD metric except as the most
coarse grained measure. (And the out-of-area AD thing gives us
another tool to balance workloads.)

S.


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>     Brian
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