Re: [Model-t] Next steps from Tuesday's breakfast meeting

[Jari Arkko <[e-mail]>]

Thanks Robin and all.

On Melinda’s question — the following is my personal opinion:

First off, I think we need to produce IETF outputs. It is great that the IAB has kicked off work and is hosting the mailing list, but I ultimately this is primarily IETF results. Definitely the 3552 change needs to be.

Secondly, as Stephen says we’ll benefit from some parallel and independent works at the moment. That being said, I think there’s some value in brainstorming a bit even in the short term about where the different pieces of work might develop into. I’ve also chatted with some of you about this. From the document that me and Stephen have, we’re going to do one round of introducing additional materials, already in ÷  on our editor’s version but not yet published. Things like taking into account points made in our meeting this week and at the SAAG meeting last time. But moving forward, I think I see our document evolving/split into different parts:

* Analysis of why things have changed & architectural considerations (the bulk of our current doc)
* Suggested edits to 3552 (we have some of that now, but I suspect at some point someone is going to write a cleaner and better standalone document about it)
* Guidelines for designers on what to do avoid some of the issues (we have some of that, but again might be better as standalone document, or perhaps with competing proposals)

But in addition to this, there are many other parts that might benefit from having independent documents. E.g., a discussion of attacks and issues that we’ve seen that support the case for more careful consideration of these issues (Dominique or Ali perhaps). Or, a document on trust and where that comes from and plays with architecture (Melinda or Ted/Martin perhaps). A vulnerability analysis (Robin, perhaps). And I don’t mean to say we should avoid competing documents, those are very welcome at this point as well. But it is still worthwhile to think about the different aspects that one might want to write about, and focus a particular piece on a chosen angle.

Jari