[shara] Summary and outcomes from aplusp BoF at IETF 76

[Ralph Droms <[e-mail]>]

Thanks to Dan and Christian for chairing the BoF and to everyone who
participated.  I especially thank the participants for staying on
topic and having a constructive and useful discussion of the issues
during the BoF.

There were a couple of aspects of the BoF that I wish I had handled
better.  In particular, I didn't intend to exclude any of the
proponents of the various a+p proposals related to dual-stack lite
(DS-lite) and, in retrospect, we could have done a better job with the
initial formulation of the questions asked at the end of the BoF.
I'll reiterate that I think the chairs did a great job with the BoF,
considering the history and context of the topic, and the shortcomings
of the BoF are really my responsibility.

However, I think that this BoF, considered with the outcome of the
previous shara BoF, came to a couple of useful conclusions:

* there is a need to provide inbound connections to
   subscriber-provided services, and
* a+p has too many side effects, not all of which are known at this
   point, to be a useful mechanism to meet that need.

Comments on these conclusions is encouraged...

Considering this outcome, no work on a+p will be chartered.  I will
ask the softwire WG to consider the issue of inbound connections to
subscriber-provided services as part of their work on DS-lite.  Other
working groups may take on development of techniques for providing
inbound connections in other technologies and scenarios.

- Ralph