[mpls] Formal poll to abandon draft-ietf-mpls-sfl-control

[Adrian Farrel <[e-mail]>]

All,

As you will have seen, there has been some discussion on the list about the
work still needed to complete draft-ietf-mpls-sfl-control and a bug in the
spec that Stewart has discovered.

I asked on the list (2024-02-26) whether anyone is still interested in this
work
(https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mpls/eW8SpBzEAZRlsiTPhPbSd3DnrPQ/)
I repeated the question (2024-03-04)
Stewart rephrased my questions (2024-03-04) to ask if anyone has implemented
or deployed, or has plans to implement or deploy
(https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mpls/i4IC05iAheiYlKGIFq-8iu7nhjg/)

The only response has been from Loa, suggesting that if someone is willing
to do the work then he would support them, and that (my interpretation) he
would be sad to see the document dropped.

So, this email is a formal call for consensus.

The chairs propose to pull the document back from the AD and drop it from
the working group. This would allow anyone to pick the document up again in
the future, but it would need to go back through the working group adoption
process.

Please speak up if you are opposed to this action. In particular, please
state why you are opposed (e.g., you know something about
implementation/deployment) and how you propose that the document should move
forward (i.e., who would do what work).

In the absence of voices opposed to this approach, the chairs will take the
action.

This call ends on Tuesday 19th March 2024 at 17.00 UTC (i.e., after the MPLS
session at IETF-119).

Thanks,
Adrian (on behalf of the MPLS WG chairs)