The MPLS WG Archive

[Bala Rajagopalan <BRaja@tellium.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Villamizar [mailto:curtis@fictitious.org]

> > Going forward, I hope the IETF makes it mandatory
> > to have outside work examined in the relevant WGs with
> > the same seriousness as regular WG items (or assign
> > evaluation teams, like design teams). This would bring
> > overall sanity and be beneficial for all groups.
> > 
> 
> Any organization or representative may sumbit an internet draft and it
> may be given consideration by the WG.  It carries no more weight than
> any other individual WG submission.
> 
> If the WG is not interested, that is the end of it.
> 
> Curtis
>

This is precisely the problem. The above mode of operation is fine
when considering work to be done within an IETF WG. But it
results in the sort of grumbling we heard recently when external 
orgs do independent work. There needs to be a process to
look at external work more rigorously (or, ignore "uninteresting" 
work completely and not worry about IETF protocol changes elsewhere).


Bala