RE: IETF-51 WhoisFix BoF Announcement

At 2:10 PM -0400 8/1/01, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
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>Maybe I'm reading this incorrectly, but it still looks like folks might have
>fundamentally different views on what the scope of the next whois BOF should
>be.  If this is the case, and given that we can hold only so many BOFs on
>this topic [1], I think it would have been wise to discuss scope and charter
>for the BOF BEFORE the BOF was scheduled.  If the whoisfix BOF fails to
>produce any tangible results, will it even be possible to try again?

Without attempting to speak too much for someone else, I think that 
this is Eric's whole point.  He's presented a fairly narrow list of 
activities for discussion within the BOF.  These all relate to port 
43 whois, and hopefully fixing it in a way that is backwards 
compatible with the existing query model.  I'm actually just assuming 
that backwards compatibility is one of Eric's goals, but I don't see 
anything in the announcement which seems to contradict it.

If other people want to create a new protocol that does something 
else, they can do that.  As we discovered at IETF 49, trying to have 
both of those discussions in the same room isn't so productive.

Jordyn