The MPLS WG Archive

[George Newsome <gnewsome@ieee.org>]

Malcolm Betts wrote:

> Loa, the from the outside looking in the liaison process and the change 
> process are closely coupled.  The liaison process is described in ITU-T 
> Recommendation A.4 and A.5 and in RFC 3356. 
> .........

It seems to me that Malcolm and Monica's remarks, and Steve's 
suggestions to improve the usefulness of the document are all heading in 
the right direction.

I would have thought that the IETF understands very well how to make 
changes to its documents, so a new document discussing that aspect seems 
to have little use.

On the other hand, Loa suggested earlier that the liaison process is not 
well understood, so a document describing how the interaction between 
SDO's can work seems very relevant.

It is difficult or impossible to separate out the fact that other SDO's 
are not individuals, and that formal communications (liaison's) are how 
other SDO's communicate with each other. Steve's suggested changes 
address both of these facts, and are thus helpful.

George