Subject: [pim] rfc4601bis

From: "Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:29:04 -0400

Hi,

Per the 79th IETF meeting in Beijing, the WG wants to advance the PIM protocol to the Draft Standard and that requires at the least the following two things be done.

- Address all the open erratas:

http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/77/slides/pim-0/pim-0_files/v3_document.htm (Stig)
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=4601&rec_status=15&presentation=table

- Identify optinoal features that do not meet the following criteria from RFC 2026, and consider removing them from the specification:

   A specification from which at least two independent and interoperable
   implementations from different code bases have been developed, and
   for which sufficient successful operational experience has been
   obtained, may be elevated to the "Draft Standard" level

Rishabh, Vero and I have been working together on this with guidence from Stig. I will send out separate email on the above two tasks, and we really appreciate active discussions on the mailing list, and in the Prague meeting.

Our goal is to publish the -00 version of a rfc4601bis draft a few weeks after the Praque meeting, with all erratas addressed. Based on working group discussions, a subsequent version may have some optional features removed as well.

Thanks.
Jeffrey, Rishabh, Vero