Discussion on Charter

To the IEPREP List Members and WG Chairs, 

In the past few IETFs, there has been a growing movement to standardize
the following capabilities via updates to existing standards or new
internet drafts: 

- Preemption of Inelastic traffic sessions
- Routing and QoS for nested VPNs
- MLPP/GETS capabilities for application protocols like SIP, and
signaling protocols like RSVP
- etc. 

targeting the emergency preparedness of standards based civilian and
military networks. However, there is a no single home for this effort
till date and any activity currently has been following the route of
vetting at IEPREP and then WG acceptance in different WGs (for ex,
SIPPING, TSVWG etc.)

In the interest of various vendors, system integrators (for ex. like my
employer Lockheed Martin), as well as end customers (usually various
governments) who are developing these solutions, it would be efficient
to either recharter IEPREP so that it itself  can standardize such
capabilities or consider the formation of a new WG which can address
this particular area. 

It would be good if we can broach the above topic in mailing list
discussions and at the next WG meeting. 

Thanks, 

Pratik