Pat,
if you want to express such opinions, let's discuss them on the mailing list to avoid clogging mailboxes and avoid cross posting.
thanks,
Reinaldo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Calhoun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 7:40 PM
> To: Penno, Reinaldo [SC9:T327:EXCH]
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: PPPoE Protocol and the IETF
>
>
> To be fair, there already was a BOF. The consensus, as I
> recall, was that
> existing protocols should be used for this purpose, and there
> was no need
> for something new.
>
> I see no reason to re-open old wounds. There is nothing wrong with an
> Informational RFC, as far as I can tell. Plenty of
> interoperable products,
> and that I believe was the goal.
>
> PatC
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:13:40PM -0700, Reinaldo Penno wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > In the years following the publication of the PPPoE protocol much
> > operational experience and customer feedback was gathered. These
> > deployments led to the discovery of several shortcomings
> or enhancements
> > needed such as (but not limited to): QoS, Multicast, MIBs,
> Route Updates,
> > Seamless Service Selection, etc.
> >
> > Even tough several companies stepped forward and wrote
> drafts proposing
> > solutions to these issues, the lack of a appropriate forum
> within the IETF
> > to discuss them had undesired consequences for these
> proposals such as
> > little adoption or interoperability problems when adopted.
> Not to mention
> > that the original PPPoE RFC (2516) has an informational status.
> >
> > Due to the widespread use of this protocol and the issues
> mentioned above,
> > we are proposing that the interested parties join the
> newly created mailing
> > list for the purpose to discuss how to create within the
> IETF an official
> > forum to standardize the PPPoE protocol and related work.
> We are also
> > working with the Internet Area Directors on possibly
> holding a BOF, and one
> > of the purposes of creating the mailing list is to gauge
> interest and
> > discuss what a WG would do.
> >
> > Here are some references to work related to the PPPoE protocol:
> >
> >
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-song-pppoe-ext-multicast-00.txt
> http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/drafts/draft-wheeler-info-pppoe-
> mib-00.html
> http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-penno-pppoe-ext-qos-00.txt
> http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-penno-pppoe-ext-service-03.txt
> http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/drafts/draft-carrel-info-pppoe-e
> xt-00.html
> http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/drafts/draft-fiaschi-qoscapabili
> ty-ppp-00.txt
> http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-dasilva-l2tp-relaysvc-00.txt
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2516.txt?number=2516
>
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> thanks,
>
> Reinaldo Penno
