[Stackevo] Next steps post-SPUD BoF

[Brian Trammell <[e-mail]>]

Greetings, all,

First, I'd like to welcome Robert Sparks, Spencer Dawkins, Aaron Falk, and David Black to the IP Stack Evolution program!

Following a call between the SPUD BoF chairs and proponents earlier this week, it seems to us that moving toward forming a working group is not appropriate at this time. We're not doing engineering yet, and even forming a smallish WG to publish an experimental prototype protocol RFC would merely serve to reinforce the community's uneasiness expressed during the BoF about draft-hildebrand-spud-prototype becoming The Production SPUD Protocol with very little modification.

We have the beginnings of a set of research questions, mainly focusing on which information to selectively expose and incentives to do so, but there's not an RG charter there yet. (Indeed, in trying to figure out what of SPUD or SPUD-adjacent work *should* have a RG chartered around them, after a five minute conversation on IETF Friday afternoon, Mirja, Gorry, and I came up with "HOPS should be an RG." But that's a different thread.)

In short, we're still doing architecture, so the most appropriate home for this work right now is the IAB, and this program. Since the community is engaged in discussion on UDP encapsulation and middlebox cooperation on the [e-mail] list, we'll keep that discussion going, as well as discussion about experimentation with the SPUDlib prototype.

I have a document, draft-trammell-stackevo-newtea, which I'd like to see evolve into a set of architectural guidelines for encapsulations for transport evolution, following list discussion... this might be more appropriately named draft-xxx-spud-arch, since it what it really aims to talk about is "architecture for encapsulations that look like SPUD."  Also, following the example of the privsec program, I'd also like to select a "show runner" for the SPUD focus area; at this point, mainly to keep an eye on the list and to identify / find authors for anything we think might need to be a document coming out of that discussion.

Thoughts?

Thanks, cheers,

Brian