Re: OPES Re-Charter

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Markus Hofmann wrote:

> From previous discussions, the following candidate topics for
> re-chartering have been discussed:
>
> (1) Rules Language
> (2) OCP profile for SMTP
> (3) Support for streaming media
> (4) Others?
>
> Please indicate which topics are of interest to you, and whether you
> can commit to work on the respective item(s). We can move forward only
> if folks are able to spend the time required for making progress.

I hope to be able to actively work on P Core and OCP/SMTP profile,
provided there are other people willing to help or lead.

Also, we should discuss whether the charter should include an "OCP
Security" draft that details negotiated features like transport-level
security and agent authentication. Is anybody interested in securing
OCP communications. Does anybody want to take a lead on that?

As you know, there have been P and OCP interest a few months ago, when
the question first came up. I hope folks are still interested, despite
the recent WG "blackout" (one of those IETF process things we have to
live with, I guess).

If there is NOT enough interest to keep the WG alive, the OCP/SMTP
profile can probably be written as an individual draft. I am less sure
about P work. It seems there are some fundamental rule language
scoping issues that are better resolved in a WG setting.

Thanks,

Alex.

P.S. Thank you, Marshall, for putting up with this working group!