Re: DNSEXT future

[Andrew Sullivan <andrew@ca.afilias.info>]

Dear colleagues,

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:36:10PM -0400, Ólafur Guðmundsson /DNSEXT co-chair wrote:

> 	A. keep the working group open
> 	B. Put the group to sleep/hibernate
> 	C. Close the working group

I do not have a strong preference between B or C.  In the absence of
drafts that the WG is willing to take up as new work, I can't see an
argument for A.

If the consensus is to follow approach B, I would like to suggest a
relatively short (18 months?) deadline after which, if no work has
emerged to "awaken" the group, the WG be formally closed.  (That would
be 18 months after recharter, which gives us a practical period of
something in the area of two years.  That ought to be plenty of time
for evaluation, I would say.)  As others have suggested, there is no
reason the mailing list cannot remain active in such circumstances,
and to the extent it continues to attract experts in the protocol, I
think it can remain a useful resource to the wider IETF community
without a working group behind it.

A

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