Subject: Announcement: Open design team formed to examine possibility of merged protocol proposal

From: "Putzolu, David" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:09:09 -0800

All,

In order to make progress on the protocol 
selection process, Patrick & I would like 
to examine whether a common protocol proposal
is feasible.  More specifically, we would
like to see whether a merged proposal,
based on the best aspects of each of the
currently existing ForCES protocol proposals,
can be made.

In order to do this we are forming a short-
lived design team that is chartered with 
examining the aspects of the currently 
existing protocol proposals, seeing what 
common ground there is, and determining 
whether the common ground is sufficient 
for coming up with a single merged proposal.

This design team is tasked with coming
up with a report to the working group
after one month's time, by March 20, 2004.   
Patrick & I will be participating in the 
design team to help make sure that good 
progress is made.  

Membership in this design team is open and
we expect work to begin immediately.  If
you are interested in participating please email
me or Patrick.  

-David & Patrick