Re: [Pals] What should we do with draft-jiang-pwe3-mc-pon

["Dongjie (Jimmy)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Stewart,

An interoperable approach for PON protection may be helpful for the PON deployment in various network scenarios. The codepoints allocated by IANA may refer this document for background information.

Best regards,
Jie

From: Pals [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Stewart Bryant
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Subject: [Pals] What should we do with draft-jiang-pwe3-mc-pon


The authors of http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jiang-pwe3-mc-pon/
have asked us to start a poll for WG adoption. However before we do this
I think that we as a WG need discuss the right way forward for this draft.

In looking at the history of the draft I discover that there has been almost
no technical discussion on the list.

If I look back at the minutes I find:

@ IETF 90

YJS: how much is deployed with the 2:n splitters?
Ed: Bright House would probably do it. The splitter would be in house as
it solves other issues.  PON is growing, but not a great deal deployed
in NA cable.
Yuanlong: used for small cell backhaul. Can protect a bunch of small
cells.
YJS: so far interest in, but not deployed.  2:N splitter needs to resynch.
Why do we need if phy not there.
Andy: please provide comments to the list.
Matthew: readers? 4, only one commenter on the list

and @ IETF 91

Edwin presented the slides
No comments.
The call for WG adoption will be carried to the email list.
The Chairs noted interest in the meetings and on the list.

In the last remark we may have been mistaken given that  all I
can find are eight emails up to this point excluding automatic notifications
and emails from the authors asking the chairs to take an action.

In looking at the draft, the only IANA actions are in the ICC RG
parameter registry which has Expert Review or FCFS codepoint
ranges, thus there is no need for a standards track RFC or indeed
any RFC from this point of view.

In looking at the subject matter itself, I wonder whether this
is a technology where it is expected there will be multi-vendor
deployment within a PON domain requiring multi-vendor
interworking of this feature.

The IESG have recently been pushing back on the publication of
drafts that have limited support, and thus we need to be in
a position to justify moving forward with this draft on whatever
stream we decide is best.

Given the above, I would like to understand the views of the
WG on which stream is most appropriate for this work:

PALS WG - Standards Track

PALS WG - Informational

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Independent Stream

What are the views of the PALS WG on how we should move forward
and why?

- Stewart