I think it's important to distinguish a working group from an interest
group.
No-one is saying that CDI is an uninteresting topic. Many of us expect that
the subject will once again attract a sufficient level of attention in the
future to warrant standardization efforts. But the IETF does not charter
working groups based on "2 or 3" people who want to comment on things. And
a working group that has reached the point of being defended on the basis
that there might still be a few people who want to talk about things is
basically not functioning as a working group any more.
There are many interesting things that are not standardized. (And there are
many things standardized that are not very interesting!) It's important to
keep track of what kind of group you're dealing with and what kind of work
is to be done there. The reality of CDI is that we've gone from having
"lots of CDN operators, many interested in interoperation" to having "very
few CDN operators, all focused on survival". You can't make progress on
standardization efforts when the stakeholders are unwilling or unable to
participate.
--Mark
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> Elisa Turrini
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> Subject: Re: Is CDI dead?
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> On 18-03-2003 23:28, "jayasurya venugopalan" <jaya.venu@wipro.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I feel if even only 2or 3 of us are interested we should carry on.
> > Some of us may not be in a postion to actively contribute but
> we could well
> > observe and comment.
>
> I agree with you.
>
> I wrote two short papers about CDI and I am still investigating the CDI
> issues.
>
> You can find the papers at:
> http://www.cs.unibo.it/~turrini/PAPERS/
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Elisa
>
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