The IAB intends to publish the following document and invites any comments you might have: "Uncoordinated Protocol Development Considered Harmful" http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-mpls-tp-uncoord-harmful-00 Abstract This document identifies various types of damage that may occur without formal coordination and joint development on protocols of mutual interest between standards development organizations. The IAB has selected T-MPLS as recent case study to describe hazard to both the MPLS and Internet architecture as a result of uncoordinated adaptation of a protocol. This experience has resulted in a considerable improvement in the relationship between the two organisations. In particular, this was achieved via the establishment of the "Joint working team on MPLS-TP" which was the first ever joint ITU/IETF group. In addition, the leadership of the two organisations have agreed to improve inter- organizational working practices so as to avoid conflict in future between ITU-T Recommendations and IETF RFCs. Please provide your feedback before June 28, 2009. For the IAB, --Olaf Kolkman IAB Chair _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
