Shahram, Since the draft in subject is not specific to the CCAMP or MPLS WGs, or even the SUB-IP area, may I suggest that we don't abuse the mailing lists of these WGs and take the discussion to ietf@ietf.org? -- Alex Thursday, March 6, 2003, 11:35:16 AM, Shahram Davari wrote: > Hi All, > I would like to make an alternative proposal to what is proposed in this draft. > I think that IETF should not prevent other SDOs from developing extensions (minor or major), > to IETF protocols, as long as they don't call those extensions being IETF compliant. > I think IETF could recommend that the other SDOs present their protocol extensions > to IETF (in the form of a draft). The IETF community then has 3 choices: > 1) IETF agrees with the requirements and nature of the extensions and find them useful. In that case IETF could engage in technical discussions with the other SDO and reach to a mutually agreeable > draft, which could then be advanced to Proposed Standard. > 2) IETF agrees with the requirement, but does not agree with the proposed extension, and prefers other solutions/extensions that it thinks meet those requirements. In that case IETF could develop > its solution and present it to the requesting SDO. If that SDO is satisfied with > IETF's solution, then fine, otherwise nobody can prevent them from developing their own extension. If that happens then there would be two solutions for the same requirements > and we should let the Market decide which solution/extension do they prefer. > 3) IETF does not agree with the requirement for such extensions at all. In that case, the > other SDO should be free to developed their own extension, provided they don't call those extensions to be IETF compliant. > Thanks, > -Shahram