Re: WG Adoption poll for draft-ginsberg-isis-te-app

ISIS WG,

I oppose adoption of this draft as a working group item.

After the discussion in Chicago, I proposed alternative encodings that use the 
concept of an attribute set that I was hopeful would be incorporated in a merged 
draft on this topic.

These are described in the following email.
 https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/isis-wg/current/msg05081.html

I believe that these alternative encodings have two main advantages over those
proposed in draft-ginsberg-isis-te-app.

First, they are much less disruptive to existing deployments using the existing 
TE attributes, and they provide a less disruptive migration path.

Second, they are more flexible and useful, because they do not attempt to
define specific applications.  

I am happy to publish the alternative encodings as a stand-alone draft.  I did 
not do so initially in the interest of promoting compromise after the discussion in 
Chicago.  However, the basic encodings in draft-ginsberg-isis-te-app have not changed 
significantly.  They do not capture the advantages of the alternative encodings described above.

Given the current lack of compromise reflected in draft-ginsberg-isis-te-app, I think
that the text is not a good basis for working group work on this topic.

Thanks,
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Isis-wg [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christian Hopps
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 4:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [Isis-wg] WG Adoption poll for draft-ginsberg-isis-te-app


Hi Folks,

The authors have requested the IS-IS WG adopt

    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ginsberg-isis-te-app/

as a working group document. Please indicate your support or no-support for taking on this work.

Authors: Please indicate your knowledge of any IPR related to this work to the list as well.

Thanks,
Chris & Hannes.