Re: [mpls] Resend: MPLS WG poll on making draft-ietf-mpls-rmr an Experimental RFC

[Kireeti Kompella <[e-mail]>]

Hi Loa,

- I believe the technology in this document will be deployed;
- I have the cycles to progress this document;
- there is interest to progress this as Expt.

Kireeti

On Dec 18, 2020, at 18:35, Loa Andersson <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Workig Group,
> 
> When I sent this out I was uncertain on the date to close the poll, I said "two week" poll. I let us get through the holidays and count from January 1st, the du date is Junauary 14, 2021.
> 
> /Loa
> 
> On 18/12/2020 13:07, Loa Andersson wrote:
> Working Group,
> 
> This is to start a "two week" poll on publishing draft-ietf-mpls-rmr as
> an Experimental RFC.
> 
> Mid-September the responsible AD sent draft-ietf-mpls-rmr back to the
> working group. The direct reason was that there did not seem to be any
> interest by the authors to respond to the IESG review.
> 
> The working group chairs took the action start a poll in the working
> group to see if there were interest (in the wg) to continue progress the
> document.
> 
> There were no other responses, than from the two authors, to this poll,
> and the wg chairs agree that there are no documented interest to
> progress the draft in the current format.
> 
> The logical action would have been kill the draft.
> 
> However, we have been asked id we could make the document Experimental.
> Obviously this will generate problems with down refs and code point
> allocation. But after carefully going through the documents, with some
> innovative writing it the Shepherds Write-Up, this could be managed.
> 
> Please respond to the following questions.
> 
> If draft-ietf-mpls-rmr were made an Experimental document
> 
> 
> - do you think draft-ietf-mpls-rmr is needed and will actually be
>   deployed?
> 
> - do you have the cycles to contribute to progress and review the
>   document?
> 
> - are there interest to progress the document in this fashion?
> 
> /Loa
> for the MPLS wg chairs
> 
> 
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