Re: [splices] SPLICES IETF-80 meeting minutes and start of ML discussion

[Paul Kyzivat <[e-mail]>]

On 4/14/2011 5:11 PM, Simon Pietro Romano wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I went again through the SPLICES session recording in order to derive a
> "faithful" summary of the things we discussed. You'll find SPLICES
> minutes at the following URL:
> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/80/minutes/splices.txt

Wow! You have a promising future as a secretary taking dictation!

> I encourage all of you to go and have a look at them in order to:
> 1. notify me in case you find something which needs
> revision/re-interpretation;
> 2. check once more the main lines of discussion we had in Prague.

Yup, its consistent with what I remember.

> As decided at the end of the meeting, I am herein also asking you to
> formally express your opinion on the main topic we tackled at the
> meeting and which I am copying below:
>
> "Do people believe that all the burden of this service should be on the
> side implementing the service itself?"

I think my position is clear: YES

> I remind you that the sense of the room at last IETF was clearly in
> favor of this solution, which means that we CANNOT touch the far end of
> the session when designing the SPLICES solution.
>
> This said, I warmly invite all of the people who participated in the
> SPLICES session and who fruitfully contributed to the discussion to
> dedicate some of their cycles to SPLICES. I personally keep on thinking
> that we might do some good work here.
> Finally, I encourage the authors of the documents we have been
> discussing so far to raise their voice and explicitly declare: (i) their
> willingness to proceed with the work they proposed; (ii) the main path
> forward they currently envisage in order to let the documents we
> discussed progress.
>
> Let's try and come out of this limbo!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
>