[Qirg] document status

[Rodney Van Meter <[e-mail]>]

Thanks for a very successful meeting today.  There were excellent comments/questions from the floor that will really advance the documents, which will have a positive impact on the embryonic networks that people are building today.

Here’s what I think the current document status is.  n.b.: of course
the official status is in
https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/qirg/documents/, this is a snapshot
for discussion and FYI.

I was concerned about having screwed up the naming of several I-Ds, but we’re in good shape.

RG drafts:

1. Architectural Principles for a Quantum Internet
   draft-irtf-qirg-principles-00
   status: adopted as an RG work item in the meeting 2019/3/26
   (status was already "adopted" in datatracker, so we confirmed that)
   No objections?
   (Because we adopted the draft, the current I-D name is fine.)
   Wojciech is currently the only author, but numerous hands went up
   in the session today when asked if they would contribute to such a
   document.  I expect this will go forward and that those who
   contribute substantially will be added as authors of the document.
   (In the pleasant hypothetical where a lot of people contribute,
   we'll reorganize a bit into "editor(s)" and "contributors".)

Individual drafts:

1. Advertising Entanglement Capabilities in Quantum Networks
   draft-kaws-qirg-advent-02
   status: active individual submission
   I haven't talked to the authors directly, but this I-D jumped to
   -02 *today*.  Can the authors comment on what the changes are to
   the document, and how they want to proceed?

2. The Link Layer service in a Quantum Internet
   draft-dahlberg-ll-quantum-01
   status: active individual submission
   This I-D moved to -01 *today*.  Axel, can you comment on what
   changed between -00 and -01?  There were *excellent* questions
   today that I'm sure will drive some interesting design decisions,
   especially around identifiers for nodes.  (Not that _anyone_ in
   IETF *ever* has an opinion about a naming/identifier/locator
   architecture...)

3. Connection Setup in a Quantum Network
   draft-van-meter-qirg-quantum-connection-setup-00
   status: active individual submission
   This is what our current Quantum Internet simulator *does*, in
   terms of the content of messages exchanged.  As it moves to
   implementation for a real network, those messages could be carried
   over a variety of mechanisms.  We're happy to have feedback on
   relevant protocols that might be amenable to extensions for this.

—Rod