MINOR ISSUE: Desired level of architectural view
john.loughney at nokia.com
john.loughney at nokia.com
Tue Jun 10 13:16:12 CEST 2003
Hi Harald,
I support your text. Roadmaps are not a bad thing; one could imagine other
organizations using the IETF's roadmaps to sort out priorities, etc. for
getting work done in the IETF.
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:harald at alvestrand.no]
> Sent: 10 June, 2003 09:27
> To: problem-statement at alvestrand.no
> Subject: MINOR ISSUE: Desired level of architectural view
>
>
> Section 2.1 of the problem-issues document says:
>
> o The misty vision has restricted the associated
> architectural view
> to an outline top level view. It would be desirable to have
> roadmaps and architectural views for portions of work
> which extend
> beyond a single working group: It may also be the case
> that it is
> no longer possible to fit the whole Internet within a single
> architecture
>
> MINOR ISSUE: There is not consensus that an archtiectural
> view is desirable
> - see introduction to "architectural principles of the Internet" (RFC
> 1958), which emphasizes the ability to change more than the
> grand plan.
>
>
> SUGGESTED RESOLUTION: Reformulate the paragraph to focus on
> the roadmaps
> rather than the architectural views - the term "roadmaps"
> indicates an
> understanding of where we are and where we want to go, while the term
> "architectural views" can be understood as "static" views on
> how things
> should hang together.
>
> PROPOSED NEW FORMULATION:
>
> o The misty vision has restricted the ability to describe global
> technology roadmaps beyond an outline top level view [RFC1958].
> It would be desirable to have more detailed
> roadmaps and architectural views for portions of work
> which extend
> beyond a single working group, even if a single unified Internet
> architecture is not achievable by consensus.
>
> [Reminder - I am making these comments in order to make sure
> we have the
> problem issue document be the best document we can make
> before Vienna. If
> we manage to make it good enough, we can declare consensus on
> the document
> in Vienna, and stop discussing what the problem is....]
>
>
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