The MPLS WG Archive

["Dawkins, Spencer" <Spencer.DAWKINS@fnc.fujitsu.com>]

Hi, George,

I Would Have Thought that http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mpls-charter.html item 3 covers GMPLS, and that this involved some additional work. I'm looking at 

"3. Document additional MPLS encapsulations to allow the operation of label-switched paths over additional lower-layer technologies, such as time-division (e.g.
SONET ADMs), wavelength (optical lambdas) and spatial switching (e.g. incoming fiber to outgoing fiber). "

Am I not reading the (new?) charter correctly?

Spencer (who is also confused, just about different things)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	George Swallow [SMTP:swallow@cisco.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, November 30, 2000 9:02 AM
> To:	mpls@UU.NET
> Subject:	New MPLS charter
> 
> As background to my last message...
> 
> A new MPLS charter was posted on the IETF web site around Nov. 17th.
> This was crafted by the IESG without the consultation of the WG chairs.
> I only caught wind of it yesterday.  Taken literally, all drafts into
> this meeting are outside the scope of MPLS.  Our charter boils down to
> Shut Down!
> 
> In view of this I will not be posting an agenda for MPLS.  Rather I
> wait for word from our Area Directors.
> 
> No one has been forthcoming about the politics which have led to this
> turn of events.  All I get are sound bites like "there's a lot of
> stuff going on".
> 
> ...George