[rrg] [lisp] [Int-area] Please respond: Questions from the IESG as to whether a WG forming BOF is necessary for LISP

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Robin Whittle <rw at firstpr.com.au>

    >> I don't think the people working on LISP are trying to "convince" the
    >> IETF as a whole of the "merits of LISP".

    > I don't know the criteria is for creating a WG, but I guess the IETF
    > doesn't create them except for projects which have sufficient merit in
    > general

Sure - but that is not in contradiction to my statement above. The IETF has a
long history of creating WG's to work on different alternatives. In such
circumstances, WG's simply serve to create standards in an _open_ way; they
do not in any way imply any sort of official IETF preference.

    > I think the LISP team could best facilitate progress towards scalable
    > routing solutions by ... discussing in public why they think their
    > LISP-ALT approach is better than the alternatives.

The community has been discussing these issues for years, going back to
things like Multi6. It's been discussed to death already.

	Noel