Hello; the AQM list has been mostly quiet recently, other than
discussion around the IESG comments on our drafts as they progress
through the IESG review, so I thought it would be a good time to send a
status snapshot and start more discussion about rechartering.
The datatracker page tells the story well, I believe:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/aqm/documents/
The main thing we need to work on before closing/rechartering is getting
the CoDel draft finished. I believe the editors have the working group
last call comments and are planning an update to address them. The goal
should be to close the loop on these with the reviewers and get this
into the IESG's queue before the next meeting in July.
We are planning for a 1-hour meeting at the next IETF meeting in July,
in order to discuss next-steps for the working group, which could be
either shutting down or rechartering.
We succeeded early on in getting RFC 7567 published and it looks like
we'll soon have Experimental RFCs for 2 of the algorithms most people
have worked with to-date. Both specs became more clear and were
improved through the WG reviews. Additionally, we also have RFC 7806,
the ECN benefits document, the characterization guidelines, FQ-CoDel,
and DOCSIS-PIE descriptions that were completed.
We should think about what would be needed going forward. Some
questions for rechartering might be:
- What would the group expect to advance algorithms from Experimental
to Standards Track? (e.g. more data from real deployments, more
analysis of edge cases, etc) ... and are there people with time and
support to meet whatever those expectations are?
- Are the current couple of algorithms all that's needed for the
Internet, or are there other algorithms building on these, learning from
experience with them, or making other improvements which we should work
on? (e.g. we have the DualQ draft, and recently the GSP draft has been
updated)
- Are there ongoing field deployments, research projects, and other
efforts that it will be good to discuss together in the working group,
towards improving or advancing the current algorithms, or towards new
algorithms?
- Is there other operations experience or considerations that should be
documented?
Of course, this is not a complete list, but I thought formulating a few
questions like this could help in determining if a recharter is
justified rather than simply closing. Your thoughts on these and any
other relevant topics will be useful to hear on the mailing list and in
Berlin.
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