Re: [rtcweb] Protesting the QoS document decision

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

Thank you, this resolves my practical issues, and the acknowledgement of 
the communication & transparency issues seems adequate to help prevent a 
repeat of this stall.

I'll also take this as instructions to the group to replace all 
references to -rtcweb-qos  with referenes to draft-dsheikan (or its 
successors).

On 12/19/2013 05:12 PM, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
> Harald, WG,
>
> We apologize for the failure to inform and keep the WG aware of the
> discussion and TSV ADs request to move draft-ietf-rtcweb-qos with it's
> then content to TSVWG. A request chairs and authors accepted in the end
> more than a year ago. This is clearly a failure by us chairs to ensure
> sufficient transparency and a venue to timely protest that decision.
>
> After reviewing this with TSVWG chairs, the non-recused RTCWEB chairs
> (Magnus and Ted) do believe that the DSCP aspects require TSVWG action,
> and that draft-dhesikan belongs there as a result. If there are aspects
> of the QoS approach that are outside draft-dsheikan's current remit,
> those might still belong in RTCWEB. We might also be able to pull some
> pieces out of draft-dhesikan for local progress, but we can't take the
> full document as it stands. Thus nothing prevents the WG from creating a
> new QoS related WG document assuming a different scope than the previous
> document. If any WG participants see a need for such a document they are
> welcome to submit an individual document as a proposal for such a WG
> document.
>
> We note you protesting the lack of progress of draft-dhesikan in TSVWG,
> and state that as one reason why this document should be in RTCWEB WG.
> After reviewing mailing list discussion, meeting minutes and talking to
> the TSVWG chairs, it appears that the main reason it hasn't been making
> more progress have been the lack of an draft update to resolve the issue
> raised in the Berlin TSVWG meeting. We have good hopes that the document
> can make fair progress in TSVWG assuming author and RTCWEB participants
> make timely contributions to the document.
>
> Harald, does this provide a clear enough way forward or, do you wish to
> continue your appeal?
>
> Best Regards
>
> Magnus Westerlund
> Ted Hardie
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2013-11-13 21:21, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>> This mail concerns both administrative and technical issues, which is
>> why it is explicitly copied to the ADs of RAI and TSV. I hope I have
>> managed to keep them separate in the message.
>>
>> Magnus said in an email yesterday, concerning draft-ietf-rtcweb-qos:
>>
>>> Okay, we might not have been public enough on this. It was requested by
>>> the Transport ADs quite some time ago that doing the QoS document in our
>>> WG was not appropriate and requested us to direct the document to TSVWG.
>>> Which was done, and where it hasn't made progress.
>>>
>>> You might have noted that James Polk did comment in the milestone part
>>> in the monday session of IETF88 about our QoS milestone should be killed.
>> I want to protest this - both practically and formally.
>>
>> To get the formal stuff out of the way first:
>>
>> Changing the deliverables of the working group *without telling the
>> working group* is totally inappropriate in an open, consensus-driven
>> process.
>> Changing the deliverables of the working group *without telling the
>> working group why* and *without allowing those reasons to be debated* is
>> totally inappropriate in an open, consensus-driven process.
>>
>> I protest against this action.
>>
>> ACTION REQUEST 1: I request that this decision be declared null and
>> void, and that the relevant ADs send out a message to RTCWEB (and TSVWG
>> if appropriate) *PROPOSING* such an action, and giving a reasonable
>> timeline for when they will make a decision based on mailing list feedback.
>>
>> In practice:
>>
>> The draft as it existed before its untimely demise consisted of two things:
>>
>> - A description of how QoS mechanisms could be useful in the RTCWEB use case
>> - A description of existing mechanisms that could be appropriate for the
>> RTCWEB use case
>>
>> The first one is clearly something that needs RTCWEB consensus. It seems
>> to have no need for, nor likelyhood of gathering interest enough for, a
>> TSVWG consensus.
>>
>> There could be some argument that the second part needs TSVWG consensus,
>> especially if it was redefining any mechanisms, or it was making choices
>> between mechanisms where TSVWG had strong opinions about which
>> mechanisms should be chosen, but had not chosen to document that in any
>> document on which IETF consensus had been declared (that is to say,
>> existing RFCs).
>>
>> My archive shows 36 messages where the title refers to this draft. It
>> shows no messages declaring that feedback has been incorporated and
>> calling for new review - something that is usually necessary to get a WG
>> consensus on any document. The debate hasn't been conclusive, but then,
>> it hasn't been pushed hard either.
>>
>> The people who know how RTCWEB works are in this working group. Some of
>> them may be in TSV, but I think the locus of knowledge for saying what
>> QoS mechanisms are appropriate for RTCWEB are here, not in TSV.
>>
>> This results in my second request.
>>
>> ACTION REQUEST 2: I request that the chairs declare that based on the
>> debate about the QoS functionality so far, the document should be
>> resurrected, and will continue to be  worked on in the RTCWEB working
>> group, bringing in advice from TSVWG as required to make sure the
>> descriptions of underlying mechanisms, and the choice of such
>> mechanisms, is correct and appropriate.
>>
>>
>>
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