MPA has been approved

Everyone,

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the IESG approved
the MPA draft for RFC publication earlier today - the actual
announcement of this approval will appear in the near future.

This completes the planned work of the RDDP Working Group - all
of our drafts are now approved and are (or shortly will be) in
the RFC Editor's Queue.  I want to thank all the authors, and
in particular recognize Paul Culley for his work on MPA - major
structural changes to the MPA draft were unexpectedly needed
after it left the WG, and Paul was diligent in getting them
done.

Authors should not tune out of RDDP entirely - authors will be
hearing from the RFC Editor and yours truly when the editing
is done, as approval by every author is required before an
RFC is published.  This may be a while in the future, as we have
a couple of normative references to drafts from other WGs that
will probably determine when the entire set of RFCs can be
published:
- The RDDP SCTP draft references draft-ietf-tsvwg-addip-sctp
- The RDDP RDMAP draft references draft-ietf-ips-iser

Congratulations and many thanks,
--David
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