Re: FINAL CALL for Feedback on Charter

[Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk>]

On 26/11/03 10:42 am, "Rod.Walsh@nokia.com" <Rod.Walsh@nokia.com> wrote:

> Hi Gorry et al.
> 
> The charter text is good. A couple of improvements would be...
> 
> 1. I had the impression the focus on unicast was as important as multicast so
> this text is a little misleading: "Specific properties of this subnetwork
> technology include multicast-capability..."

Indeed, unicast AND multicast ARE within the charter.

I was trying to capture the properties of the transmission system, i.e.,
this is multicast capable not that it is unicast incapable.

> 2. Due to the added text ("appropriate standards..." after the IETF58 meeting
> discussion), the following sentence is a discontected: "The standards will be
> appropriate to both encapsulation methods." Changing to "The standards will
> support both MPE and any alternative encapsulation method developed."
> 
OK - seems good, let's change this.

> For everyone's reference:
> The charter text discussed in IETF58 at
> http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/ip-dvb/meetings/IETF-58-Mpls/
> The latest charter text at http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/ip-dvb/charter.html
> 
> Cheers, Rod.
> 

Gorry