On Nov 12, 2013, at 11:06 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It would be nice to convene a summit of operators (at RIPE or NANOG) and > describe the various mechanisms and rather than ask them which one they like, > ask them which one they would *NEVER* consider. That might reduce the > field by half... I don't think that's practical—they might all vote for a protocol that they wind up not wanting to deploy. The models that are under consideration actually have running code and some operational experience behind them. So asking operators to decide based on a feature list or something of that sort is not a good idea. What we really want is for operators who have realistic intentions of deploying this stuff to weigh in. And they are doing so, in the working group, so we don't really need to go to RIPE or NANOG to get this feedback.