Re: Need for an open access IPv6 working group at the IETF

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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
In 1999 you asked my predecessor's predecessor:
I wonder if we should not have a new working group within the IETF that
would issue informational RFC's on the topics of equal access
using Internet Protocol technologies.

Well, I'm quite sure the answer is no. That is a business model, policy and
governance question, and these are not areas within the IETF's mission.

I am in agreement that open access issues as they relate to business models, policy or governance, are not areas within the IETF mission.

However, you have avoided giving consideration to the technical guts of my proposal: re: IPv6 flow field range partitioning, IPv6 prefix propagation and MPLS LSP to v6 flow mapping (as they emerge from DOCSIS SIDs). I am not proposing an open access working group per se, but I would like to know what the IETF-ers think about how best to support multiple simultaneous ISPs in an IETF-standardized sort of way. Do not ask me to have these discussions at Cablelabs... they do not want it. So where else?

I've been out of touch for a while, so if anybody can bring me up to speed in a manner that is a bit more enthusiastic, I would appreciate deeply.

Discussion of specific vendor's products is also outside our scope, except
when they directly illustrate technical discussions.

Can one at least tell me whether Multi-VRF is known to be an IETF standard? What is the RFC?

It's clear that producing technical standards that are fair and open is
in the IETF's mission, and that is where we should focus. If you have
technical proposals that tackle this, they are most welcome, in Paris,
Vancouver, or on-line.

I should propose an ID in the IPv6 working group?

You might, however, be interested by RFC 4084.

I do not see the relevance of this RFC.  Anything else?

-=Francois=-
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