Re: successful termination? Or interest in resumption of the work?

Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net> Fri, 03 April 2009 06:37 UTC

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Geoff,

> There were the following drafts that are still WG documents at this 
> stage:
>
> - the outstanding applicability draft 
> (draft-ietf-shim6-applicability-03.txt)
>
> - the locator pair selection draft 
> (draft-ietf-shim6-locator-pair-selection-04.txt)
>
> - the API draft (draft-ietf-shim6-multihome-shim-api-07.txt)
>
> There may be work on Illitsch's proposal to perform a faster algorithm 
> in the failure detection / reachability area (he had a draft on this I 
> recall)
>
> There were areas about ULP / SHIM signalling to allow greater levels 
> of control in an instance of a ULP and greater levels of feedback from 
> the SHIM layer.

Right.

> There appears to be interest in multipath TCP, andf the possible 
> coupling of multipath TCP to Shim6

My understanding is that there are folks interested in pursuing 
multipath TCP, but they will have their own BOF, probably in Stockholm.

> There was interest in proxy shim6 and a draft on the topic 
> (draft-nordmark-shim6-esd-01.txt)

Right.

> I must point out that the past two years has been spent largely 
> waiting for the documents to clear the IESG, and the lack of work in 
> this WG in the interim was due to a decision to await these core 
> documents to be cleared through the IESG before picking up more work.

Indeed.

> So if there is interst in picking up this work now, it would be good 
> to hear from intersted individuals in response to Jari's call.

Yes.

Jari