Hi Dave, Thanks for your comments. How about we use the first 2 lines from the background section in the wiki - http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/irtf/trac/wiki/nfvrg "Network Function Virtualization is a key emerging area for network operators, hardware and software vendors, cloud service providers, and in general network practitioners and researchers. This area requires exploring new directions and working collaboratively on how to create network services that utilize a virtualized infrastructure." Thanks, Ramki -----Original Message----- From: Dave Crocker [mailto:dhc@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 1:59 PM To: ietf@xxxxxxxx Cc: ramki Krishnan; diego@xxxxxx; dilikris@xxxxxxxxxx; nfvrg@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: Nfvrg -- Network Function Virtualization Research Group (NFVRG) discussion list On 6/3/2014 1:13 PM, IETF Secretariat wrote: > The goal of Network Functions Virtualization Research Group (NFVRG) is to bring together researchers and grow the community around the world in both academia and industry to explore this new research area through workshops, research group meetings etc. at premier conferences such as IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom and inviting special issues in well-known journals. This is opening sentence smacks more of marketing than of IRTF work. The topic is important, but serious work will not be be aided by such language. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net