RE: Charter questions

[Bernard Aboba <aboba@internaut.com>]

> I think if you check the archive, there have been a number of presentations
> to the AAA WG on  the subject of the Bind PIB.

I have checked the IETF AAA WG proceedings. There was a presentation from
the AAARCH folks on data modelling, but none on the Bind PIB, as far as I
can tell. Can you provide more information on the meetings at which this
presentation was made? 

> Likewise some of the authors would appear to be AAA people. 

Ah... the people involved were from AAARCH IRTF WG, *not* the AAA WG. Was
the Bind PIB perhaps presented in AAARCH? 

> So clearly the AAA WG should be aware of this work. 

I think you mean AAARCH IRTG WG, not AAA WG, right? 

> As I recall (from being in the AAA audience when one of these
> presentations were given) the work in question was determined to be outside
> the scope of that WG... 

Check the proceedings again. No such decision was made -- the WG
did decide not to *mandate* support for data modelling, but left open
including optional data modelling support, and encouraged further
refinement of the SMIng proposals. 

> Juergen gave some
> presentations and submitted an ID exactly to this end. This too was
> determined to be out-of-scope and unrealistic from their time-line
> perspective.

It wasn't determined to be out of scope -- the WG just decided not to
mandate support for it.