[PANRG] SCION in PANRG

["Brian Trammell (IETF)" <[e-mail]>]

Greetings, all,

At today’s PANRG meeting in Prague, we discussed potential next steps for working on SCION in the IETF/IRTF space, and an emergent idea came out of a discussion with the Eliot (the ISE), Eric (INT AD), and Colin (IRTF chair):

- The current three SCION drafts (control plane / data plane / PKI) should be published on the Independent Submissions stream, as a snapshot of the deployed SCION network at the present point in time.

- These drafts should branched and further developed within PANRG (as “implementation drafts”), as necessary, to address open questions (e.g. applicability of the SCION protocols to use cases outside those presently deployed, scalability of the control plane, development of transition technologies toward long-term coexistence between SCION and the IP-based Internet, and other questions in line with RFC 9217).

We’d like to open a period of discussion on the mailing list to understand how the RG feels about this plan. This is *not* an adoption call for versions of the core SCION drafts at this time — though should the discussion here show RG consensus for this broad direction I expect one will come before our next meeting.

Thanks, cheers,

Brian (for the PANRG chairs)