> How do we establish the political coalition necessary to act? 1. Form a political coalition. 2. Get an existing coalition such as MAAWG to take on the work. 3. Get the USISPA to take on the work http://www.usispa.org/ 4. Get the USIIA to take on the work http://www.usiia.org/ 5. Get the USISPA, USIIA and MAAWG to join forces and take on the work. Choose one... > There is clearly additional discussion necessary within the > IETF community to achieve a measure of consensus. I agree > that the IETF list is not the place for that. Yep. > We need more than just consensus in the IETF though. We need > to convince the ISPs to act who in turn must persuade the > vendors of SOHO routers. Writing the spec of a SOHO gateway could be done in the IETF because it is primarily a technical document. It is analogous to work the IETF has done before. --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf