RE: Weak turnout : was-> A proposal for moving ahead on BC models

[Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira <jau@ece.gatech.edu>]

Hi,

I have followed DS-TE requirements and protocol development very closely.
I feel that Francois' proposal of not mandating a default model in
diff-te-proto and updating diff-te-reqts to reflect the same, and to
document RDM, MAM, and whatever other model that may be developed in the
future, as standards track RFCs is the way to go.

I want to add a few comments, even though I know we are not discussing the
importance of diff-te-reqts and diff-te-proto.

diff-te-reqts (and also more recently diff-te-proto) has been read,
commented, used and referred to by many researchers. I myself have
proposed a preemption policy (following diff-te-reqts), which used RDM as
BC model, and was published and presented at INFOCOM 2002.

As a reviewer of papers submitted to IEEE conferences, I have seen the
growing interest in DSTE related topics (impossible to count how many
authors cite diff-te-reqts and diff-te-proto) and also particularly in
preemption, although I can only speak from the research community point of
view.

Regards,
Jaudelice.

>Thank you very much Vijay. That was/is exactly what I worry about.
>If not enough people (and 10 is the absolute minumum, but having seen
>the attendence of TWEG sessions, I'd expect 25 or more) can speak up
>to state one of:
>
>  - I read it and I am positive, it is good stuff
>  - I read it and I see no problems or objections
>  - I read it but I cannot determine if it is bad, but I can see that
>    what has been discussed in the WG is indeed in the document
>  - I read it and I have these nits/objections...
>  - I did not read it cause this is not relevant to my xxx
job/work/function
>  - I did not read it cause I think this is nonsense
>
>Then I get the feeling that we're just allowing a small group of
>people push their petty-project through the process. That seems NOT
>good to me. We need serious WG participation in reading and commenting
>in one of these forums above, before we can declare that we have WG
>consensus on a document to be presented to IESG for approval as RFC
>(in whatever form).
>
>Bert


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Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira
Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Electrical an Computer Engineering
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