Subject: Draft Charter for DLSw-SIG

From: "David Miller (254-5752)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 17:38:08 EDT

Tom Danninger and I have drafted a charter for the DLSw-SIG.  This
will be presented at the first meeting.  Please read and give me any
comments.  I will try to work them into the language for discussion
at the DLSw-SIG meeting.

DRAFT - AIW DLSw Special Interest Group Charter

The group was formed under the APPN Implementers Workshop to develop
a draft standard for the routing of SNA and Netbios traffic, with
the goal of providing interoperation among routers of different vendors.
The draft must be complete and detailed enough to allow the interworking
of all implementers' products for which the standard is faithfully
implemented.  The starting point for the work is the shipped DLSw product
as documented in RFC 1434.  The intent is to address external interface
standardization and to leave the implementation of the standard to each
implementer.  Upon completion of the work it is the further intent of the
group to submit the work to the IETF as a draft standard.

Membership on the SIG is limited to vendors with an interest in
implementing the standard on their product.  However, membership does
not mean that a member has agreed to implement the resulting
standard.  All members are expected to actively contribute and critique
technical approaches.  All work contributed to this effort by the
participants is considered to be in the public domain and usable by all.
Technical decisions will be made on the bases of technical consensus;
ie. technical discussion will continue until a favored approach
emerges.  Speedy resolution of technical issues is considered a key
consideration in this work.

The group will meet regularly as part of the scheduled AIW sessions and
will be chaired by an IBM representative.  Between meetings IBM will
sponsor a mail exploder to facilitate the exchange of technical opinions
and drafts.  A SIG agenda will be published before each meeting listing
proposed discussion topics.  A final agenda will be made available prior
to the meeting based on SIG membership input.  Minutes of the meeting
will be published after each sessions documenting decisions, priorities
and work assignments.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 93 20:18:07 PDT

>will be chaired by an IBM representative.  

David -

    Ahem, I don't want to turn into the group curmudgeon here, but I
    *strongly* agree with Paul that the chairman should be elected by
    the SIG.  Otherwise, prior statements I've made wrt concern about
    the openness of the process still apply.

    Also, the SIG Charter needs to address issues like one company, one
    vote.

    The submission of the work to the IETF should be as a draft Internet
    standard.  (In other words, we should put it on the track of being
    a full Internet standard, not informational only like today's
    RFC1434.)  It makes our work a lot more meaningful.

    I also share Paul's concerns about tying the DLSw SIG exclusively
    to the AIW meetings.  What we agreed upon in April was that the AIW
    provided a more agreeable venue than the IETF.  We should be
    flexible about when and where we meet (e.g. Share, Interop, etc.
    could be considered for additional meetings).  What I heard at our
    last meeting was that folks didn't want to have to go to several
    more conferences to work on DLSw.  If we find that a critical mass
    of SIG members is going to be at another conference, we should try
    to meet.  I know this is how some of the IETF working groups
    operate (e.g. 3270 Working Group).  We should talk about this on
    the 21st.

Regards,
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Wayne Clark
cisco Systems, Inc.
[email-masked]
415/688-4627