Time to get to work

Now that I've done my job in getting the problem statement
and architecture documents to the ADs for publication, it's
high time for the WG to get back to work from summer
vacation ...

... I've seen very little list traffic on technical issues
over the past month or so, and if I were to judge solely
by that, I'd have a hard time justifying meeting time
in Minneapolis.  Now, I know better - we have serious open
technical issues, and hence I'd like to see some comments/
proposals/discussion on at least the following:

(1) Connection startup.  After all the discussion about
	minimization of round trips, I was shocked to see
	a 3 round-trip startup sequence presented in Vienna.
	The MPA draft authors are responsible for getting
	this down to something more reasonable, and comments
	on the list about how it should be done are welcome.
(2) Invalidation.  We have a lingering issue from way back
	when that RDMAP is handling invalidation of STags,
	which are DDP level resources.  This needs some
	serious examination in this forum.
(3) Security.  The new version of the security draft needs
	to be submitted ASAP - please hold off discussion of
	security until it shows up, but getting the main DDP
	and RDMAP protocols done probably requires obtaining
	WG rough consensus and some level of IETF review
	of the security draft outside the WG.  The shared
	receive resources issue that generated controversy
	in Vienna will need to be resolved to a good degree
	as a requirements discussion around the security
	draft - the specific issue there will be what level
	of protection of shared receiver resources from
	sender misbehavior is required under what
	circumstances and why.

Knowing this group, one invitation to start discussion
should suffice ...

Thanks,
--David (RDDP WG chair)

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