Re: [mpls] Confusion over my comments in MPLS WG meeting

Adrian restatement of what I said. It is not the job of these authors to expand their scope because someone else wants a more general solution. If that someone really wants it the can put in the work in the appropriate venue which IMHO is RTGWG. 

George

> On Jul 19, 2016, at 5:18 PM, Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> During our discussion of draft-shen-mpls-egress-protection-framework-02 I made
> some comments at the mic.
> 
> The Etherpad records me as saying 
> Adrian - Lets not hang up on word framework.
> 
> ...and that was pretty much my message.
> 
> It felt to me that we were obsessing about the precise interpretation of the
> document title rather than what it actually achieves. It is clear (to me) that
> the document could equally have a title like "framework for the use of MPLS to
> achieve foo" or a "framework to achieve foo in an MPLS network" and that that
> would be obviously an MPLS document. On the other hand (and historically) a
> framework is not an architecture: architectures are usually
> solution-independent; frameworks are often descriptions of how to achieve
> something from a number of building blocks. But if the word "framework" gets in
> the way, simply use a different word.
> 
> In the meeting I then rambled into my beard wondering what would be the point of
> an MPLS working group if we are not able to work on this document that I feel is
> clearly an MPLS document (IRRC Hannes and Kireeti also considered this to be an
> MPLS document). Someone may have misheard me as saying "close down MPLS".
> Although Ross' departure might make this a fitting option, it was not what I was
> saying.
> 
> I think George's point was that if someone thinks that there is value in a
> generic (not limited to MPLS) framework, then they are welcome to write one, and
> RTGWG would be a good venue.
> 
> Adrian
> 
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