Re: [LOOPS] BOF co-chairs thinking on LOOPS next steps

[Mirja Kuehlewind <[e-mail]>]

Hi Carsten, hi Spencer,

> On 25. Jul 2019, at 20:59, Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> My impression, and Magnus might say I'm insane, was that Magnus is right on the edge of whether this work can be chartered without a second, working group-forming BOF. If the LOOPS community can't live without host-to-node, the community should add it. If the community can make use of LOOPS without host-to-node and add it later, the community might consider whether that reduces the scope of the initial proposed charter enough to help Magnus approve it :-) 

Yes, it would be possible to charter without another BoF a small and well-scoped group, however, it also would be possible to work on small and well-defined pieces of work without a new working group. This was one of the reasons why this was not a non-wg-forming BoF because it is not clear yet if a new group is needed or the resulting pieces of standardization work are small enough to fit into an existing group. 

Therefore, I really recommend focus on defining the standardising work items that you think are needed rather than trying to do any word-smithing of a potential charter (that eventually is not needed).

Mirja