The MPLS WG Archive

[Bala Rajagopalan <BRaja@tellium.com>]

Just ran into this ID. The flow chart, as usual,
was too complicated for me to comprehend, to I
ran it through the decoder software that IESG 
provides to unscramble its policy statements
(see http://www.ietf.org/iesg/policy_faq/demystify.exe).
The flow chart was then rendered human-readable
as follows:


	MPLS and GMPLS Change Process 
	-----------------------------

        +-------------------------+ 
        |   Receive New ID        | 
        +-------------------------+
                   |
                   | 
                   V
       +-------------------------------------+              
       | Briefly wonder about the resilience |         
       | of the MPLS/GMPLS bandwagon.        |                         
       | Start review.                       |
       +-------------------------------------+             
                  |  
                  |  
                  V
       +-----------------------------------+ 
       | Does the draft contain the term   |  Yes 
       | "ASON"?                           |-------> TRASH 
       +-----------------------------------+
                  |   
                  | No
                  V
        +----------------------------------+ 
        | Does the draft contain the term  |   Yes
        | "UNI"?                           |--------> Incinerate
        +----------------------------------+                    
 	           |
	           | No 
	           V
        +-------------------------------+   Yes, I-NNI 
        |   How about "NNI?"            |-----+----> TRASH 
        +-------------------------------+     |
                  |                           | E-NNI
                  | No                        +-----> Shred 
	           V
        +-------------------------------+ 
        | Does the draft mention Call   |   Yes
        | vs Connection control?        |-------> Send a sample
        +-------------------------------+         of draft to CDC,
                  |                               incinerate rest
                  | No
                  V
        +-------------------------------+ 
        | Does the draft have the term  |  Yes
        | "G.xyz." in the title?        |---------> TRASH
        +-------------------------------+  
                  |		         
                  | No
                  V
        +-------------------------------+ 
        | Draft has progressed too far. |
        | Send to Curtis for review.    |
        +-------------------------------+
                  |
                  | 
                  V
             |            |
             |    TRASH   | 
             +------------+  



Seems a bit draconian and no wonder, people are anxious 
about the process and expect the worst.  Still, I believe 
this will help in limiting the generation of useless drafts 
and protocol extensions to
WGs within the IETF and prevent outside groups from doing the same. 

Regards,

Bala Rajagopalan
Tellium, Inc.
2 Crescent Pl.
Ocean Port, NJ 07757
USA
Ph: +1-732-923-4237
Email: braja@tellium.com