Re: [Masque] Adoption call for "Requirements for a MASQUE Protocol to Proxy IP Traffic"

[Christopher Wood <[e-mail]>]

As pointed out, the charter and milestones are somewhat unclear with respect to IP proxying. After discussion with Martin, we would like to clarify that, at this time, draft-cms-masque-ip-proxy-reqs is under consideration for adoption as a Support Document [1]. If adopted, we will iterate on it and move it through WG last call, but will not progress it to the IESG for publication as an Informational RFC.

The value of this document is in informing any technical solution for IP proxying. Pursuing publication as an RFC increases this value in two important ways: (1) it garners review from the larger IETF community, and (2) makes the requirements stable. The chairs believe that soliciting early review from the Transport and Internet area directorate groups will help us achieve (1), and pushing the document through WG last call will achieve (2). (This also gives us some freedom to change the requirements, should new or otherwise critical information come to light.)

We hope this offers clarity for the adoption call.

Best,
Chris and Eric

[1] https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/support-documents/

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020, at 5:30 AM, Christopher Wood wrote:
> One of the goals on our charter is producing a requirements document 
> for IP proxying. draft-cms-masque-ip-proxy-reqs is one attempt at 
> accomplishing this goal. Based on feedback received during the last 
> meeting and the document revision since, we'd like to start an adoption 
> call for this document in its current form as a starting point. 
> 
> The document may be found here:
> 
>    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cms-masque-ip-proxy-reqs/
> 
> And the source may be found here:
> 
>    https://github.com/DavidSchinazi/masque-drafts
> 
> This call for adoption will conclude on September 23.
> 
> Thanks, 
> Chris and Eric