[Taps] Taps working group status and way forward

[Zaheduzzaman Sarker <[e-mail]>]

Hello working group,

It is a great pleasure to see that the final deliverables under our current
charter have been worked out and moved to the final stages of publication.
The three documents - architecture, interface and implementation, are in
IESG evaluation. The comments and discusses are being addressed and
hopefully we will approve them soon.

We also have been discussing potential new works and rechartering of this
working group for a while. Those discussions didn't really create huge
interest and enthusiasm to take in new works. One of the prominent idea was
about QUIC mapping on TAPS. I have talked with those were interested, and
my view is that we need more motivation to do that, especially as the QUIC
implementation and improvements are still undergoing, this has to be
motivated from QUIC implementers point of views that the QUIC mapping will
be used and required. From that point of view, if the interest grows in
future then QUIC working group would be best place to do that, or we can
create a working group just to focus on that deliverable.

With the current status of this working group, I don't see any need for
rechartering now and I have decided to close this working group after the
current three documents are published. This means, we will not take any new
working group item under the current charter. The working group will remain
open till we publish the architecture, interface and implementation
documents.

I am proud of the works that have been done in TAPS working group and
looking forward to see TAPS in action in the industrial implementations.
Let's hope the developers utilizes the true potential of TAPS standards.

I would like to take this opportunities to thank all the working group
participants and chairs and previous AD for doing a great job.

Please feel free to send any feedback to me.

Cheers,

Zahed
Your responsible transport AD