The Routing Over Large Clouds Mailing List Archive by date

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>]

Andrew,

> Why is this a ROLC i-d/RFC? 
> 
> This is just as much an ip-atm issue? I don't see any large-cloud-specific 
> stuff in this draft, although I agree it is not atm-specific. 
> The draft does, however, address many of the points raised by papers like 
> the Framework document in ip-atm. Maybe it should be just an "IETF" or "IAB" 
> draft? But in that case, you should probably give it wider circulation than 
> just the ROLC list before RFCing it - I know many people who did not know of 
> the existence of this draft because they are not interested in large clouds
> and don't follow ROLC.
> 
> Also, might it not be a good idea to try to get some of these ideas on the
> standards track, rather than letting them languish as "informational"?
> Just a thought.

These are mostly procedural questions, and I hope that either Joel (as the Routing AD)
or Andy (as the ROLC WG chair) would be in a better position to answer them.

Yakov.