Subject: [spring] Small SID/Compressed SID Design Team

From: James Guichard <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:29:42 +0000

Dear SPRING WG:

The WG chairs have been working with the relevant ADs to determine what needs to be done to move the SPRING segment routing work related to IPv6 along effectively. We are going to establish a design team as soon as possible, with a specific objective to look at the compression-related work.

The design team charge is still being worked on, but roughly it will be tasked to agree on a requirements proposal to the WG and a comparison document to be evaluated by the WG.  To be clear, as is the normal case for the IETF, the design team outputs are input to the WG.  Their output will not become a WG document until the WG agrees to adopt it.  Also, these documents are for WG use.  It will be for future analysis as to whether it is useful to the larger community to publish them as RFCs.

While we have various thoughts as to membership in the design team, we would like proposals for people we should include. We expect that there are more people that we "should" include than can make up an effective design time for the rapid delivery that we need.  If you are willing to serve on the design team, please let the chairs know. If there is someone you think would be good on the design team, please ask them to let us know.  We are NOT soliciting evaluations of proposed people on the list.  So, it is best if volunteers come to us directly. To be explicit, the chairs will select the members of and the chair for this design team.

We hope to appoint a small, effective, team that represents the varied interests and concerns that have been expressed on the list.  Folks volunteering should understand that we hope you can move quickly, so it will take a significant amount of your time. The deadline for volunteering is 6pm US PST this coming Friday.

Thanks!

Jim, Joel & Bruno