[lisp] WG Charter

["Joel M. Halpern" <[e-mail]>]

One of the things Luigi and I as chairs would like to do in Prague is 
spend some time discussing among the WG participants what we want to 
work on going forward.  To enable this, we would like to start 
discussion on the list.  We will also follow the face to face with a 
summary to the list and further discussion.

There are two aspects that are related but distinct, so to start this 
off I want to identify them and ask folks to comment on them separately.

First, there is the question of direction for the basic LISP 
specification.  We can leave it as it is.  However, folks have asked us 
about moving it to Proposed Standard.  Based on our reading and 
discussion with relevant ADs, one path to do this would be to refocus 
the specification away from the core Internet scaling problems, and 
instead towards a scalable anxd flexible overlay technology.  This would 
not change the technical procedures, but would have significnat impact 
on the descriptive text.

Does the WG think this is a good idea?  If so, do folks want to do it?

Second, there are a large number of pieces that people have proposed 
(many with drafts).  There are probably too many to include everything 
in the charter.  Which things do people think are important for the WG. 
  In particular, explanations of why particular items are important, and 
comments pro or con from folks who are not the document authors are 
particularly useful to the community.  (I doubt that there will be 
significant negative comment since I have not seen proposals that are 
bad ideas.  However, the WG has to prioritize and choose.)

Yours,
Joel