RRG thoughts (was [Bier] [pim] Q on the congestion awareness of routing protocols)

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 12:54:57PM -0800, Dino Farinacci wrote:
> > path exploration? but consider the shadow pricing...
> 
> Just something semi-formal where we can meet regularly. But first, please lets articuulate the problem very clearly. And bring operators in so they can confirm the problem that researchers are stating are real problems that need solving.

I actually would love to just have a standing forum to better bring routing researchers
together with industrial routing experts. Aka: not focussed on a specific issue
(as Tony's past RRG instance). E.g.: where researcher can ask questions to the experts, or propose
research and ask if/how this is useful to the industry, and where industry folks can
ask for researchers to look into specific issues (i think there are for example a lot of
simulations to investigate behaviors that we'd like to have from the undustry).

Not sure if "Research Group" is the right name for this. I think it would be a lot
closer to the SIG concept (https://wiki.ietf.org/en/group/iesg/specialinterestgroups),
except that that concept was built and specified around interaction between IETF
and operational considerations of a specific community. Not on bringing more researchers
back to the IETF.

We do have a subset of what i think such an RRG would do in rtgwg - researchers bring ideas -
and then they most often figure out that they can only proceed when they throw themselves
fully into the RFC process (which most of them cannot/wantnot do). And from what i 
understand even this is not always welcome by rtgwg, because it does take a significant
amount of time that folks feel should better be spent on actual WG deliverables.

Of course, i am mostly interested in the ietf->research direction, e.g.: where the IETF
community can better raise the questions of interest to be researched because the way i
see it, there is no forum whatsover for this part.

Cheers
   Toerless