Future of the TRADE Working Group
Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 <Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com> Fri, 26 March 2004 19:06 UTC
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From: Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 <Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com>
Subject: Future of the TRADE Working Group
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Hi, The poor attendance at the last several TRADE working group meetings (approximately zero in November 2003 in Minneapolis) and, even more important, the very low traffic level on the TRADE WG mailing list over the past year and more, indicate that there is now relatively little IETF community interest in this working group. About the only evidence that there is still community interest is the 148 email addresses subscribed to the TRADE WG mailing list. Although the group has accomplished a lot over the years, producing the IOTP v1 document, many documents supporting IOTP v1, and good drafts in the digital voucher and ECML areas, it seems like a good idea to finish getting the current drafts through and wind up its activities. The remaining milestones in the current version of the WG Charter, http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/trade-charter.html, all relate to new documents on IOTP and an IOTP v2. This seems to be the area with the least interest. I therefore think that these remaining milestones should be dropped. Similarly, the two WG drafts that have not yet been submitted to the IESG, draft-ietf-trade-iotp-http2-00.txt and draft-ietf-trade-srv-higher-services-01.txt, should be detached from the working group and allowed to time out. The four drafts which are now pending with the IESG, however, in my opinion, are useful work and should be progressed to RFC pubication: 1. The -papi- draft had one minor IESG comment, has been revised and posted. and I think it likely that it will be approved relatively soon. 2/3: The two voucher drafts had slightly more comments but have been revised and posted for a while and no negative comments have appeared. I plan to post a separate message initiating a two week working group last call for comments on these drafts. 4: By far the most IESG comments were on the ECML v2 draft. This was intended to become a Proposed Standard. But, since it seems unclear that there will be the interest needed to progress it along the standards track, I am inclinde to change the target status of this to Informational instead or Proposed Standard. This would make it easier to get approval and would remove the expectation that further work would be done to progess it along the standards track. But it would still become a permanent document as an RFC. Feel free to post any comments on the above ideas. If the working group is dissolved, the mailing list would stay in place and a new working group could always be chartered in this area in the future. Thanks, Donald =========================================================== Donald E. Eastlake III Donald.Eastlake@Motorola.com Motorola Laboratories 1-508-786-7554 (work) 111 Locke Drive 1-508-634-2066 (home) Marlboro, MA 01752 USA
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