Subject: Re: [nmrg] NMRG future work

From: "Galis, Alex" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 10:38:31 +0000

Dear Laurent and NMRG,

It appears that  some of you are suggesting new /old research agenda items, which after a ‘beauty contest’ of some sort will be incorporated in a revised charter of the NMRG. 

This is a valid process, however what it counts are the results of the process.

As I understand it in the last period of 2+ years the main output of NMRG were the presentations during the IETF sessions, with very few NMRG drafts produced and/ or agreed. 

NMRG drafts are information drafts (i.e.  they are not standard drafts, which is the IETF’s role).

I suggest that in addition to rechartering  NMRG work should focus on delivering approx 7- 10 information drafts to include for each topic: terms & concepts & context, framework(s) description, integration with other NM topics, related problems to be resolved, references.

The topics for these information drafts are all or almost all main proposed topics : intent, autonomicity, automation, slicing, softwarisation, programmability, scalability, elasticity, resilience,  etc

Best Regards
Alex