Re: [mpls] draft-mirskies straddling three working groups

Loa Andersson <loa@pi.nu> Wed, 02 August 2017 13:45 UTC

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From: Loa Andersson <loa@pi.nu>
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Subject: Re: [mpls] draft-mirskies straddling three working groups
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Working Group,

The intent with this mail was to send it to the chairs of the three 
working groups, for coordination. However, if anyone on the mpls wg 
mailing list has an opinion, it is fine to send that to the chairs.

/Loa

On 2017-08-02 11:35, Loa Andersson wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We have three drafts from Greg, they overlap in some fashion between
> our working groups. I think it would be good if we could agree on how
> the work is divided between the wg's, or maybe if if we should keep the
> drafts at one place.
>
> The drafts are:
>
> draft-mirsky-bfd-mpls-demand-01
> BFD in Demand Mode over Point-to-Point MPLS LSP
>
> draft-mirsky-mpls-p2mp-bfd-01
> BFD for Multipoint Networks over Point-to-Multi-Point MPLS LSP
>
> draft-mirsky-spring-bfd-01
> Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) in Segment Routing Networks
> Using MPLS Dataplane
>
>
> I could can think of doing this in different ways, obviously (if we
> want to progress the draft).
>
> We could do:
>
> draft-mirsky-bfd-mpls-demand-01 in bfd
> draft-mirsky-mpls-p2mp-bfd-01 in mpls; and
> draft-mirsky-spring-bfd-01 in spring
>
> That would obviously require quite a bit of coordination.
>
> We could also do all of the in one working group, and if we do that
> I think MPLS is the the stuckee. If someone else want to pick up the
> draft I would not have strong objections, as long as we make sure
> we have enough coordination.
>
> In the MPLS wg we appoint a document shepherd prior to MPLS-RT review
> (part of the adoption process). The shepherd then run the entire process
> of adopting the document (with support from the mpls chairs; and we
> don't start the process until the shepherd is reasonably sure that the
> adoption will take place.
>
> If (big if) we decide to take all documents to MPLS, then I'd like to
> have a shepherd from the other working groups for "their" documents.
>
> Opinions, ideas?
>
> /Loa
>

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Loa Andersson                        email: loa@mail01.huawei.com
Senior MPLS Expert                          loa@pi.nu
Huawei Technologies (consultant)     phone: +46 739 81 21 64

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