Subject: [I2nsf] discussion minutes with AD Kathleen on I2NSF progress and BOF preparation for IETF 93

From: Linda Dunbar <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 16:16:48 +0000

Time: May 13, 2pm EST
Participants: Kathleen Moriarty, Dan Romascanu, and Linda Dunbar

Highlight of the discussion:

We discussed the newly proposed I2NSF charter proposals and the comments posted on the list. Kathleen thinks that it is definitely more focused.
Dan thinks that there are a lot of good suggestions from John Strassner's edited version. However, Dan thinks that "general policies" is too broad for I2NSF for now. Dan suggests to work on narrower scoped area first and then expand. Kathleen agrees with Dan's suggestion.
We should adopt Myo Zarny's suggestions and rewording.  Should change the wording to accommodate Diego, Frank, DaChang, Ning's comments.

With regard to if the I2NSF charter should explicitly states "The capability registry" that enables the characteristics and behavior of NSFs to be specified using a vendor-neutral vocabulary without requiring the NSFs themselves to be standardized, Dan thinks that is necessary to have some description there, but better wording is needed. Dan will provide some wording for this.

We asked AD Kathleen if the currently proposed I2NSF charter is too narrow for an IETF Working Group, Kathleen reassured that IESG tends to like short term WGs, some may even just focus on one or two drafts. Therefore, the proposed charter is not too narrow.

Kathleen thinks the I2NSF is an important piece of work for CSO (http://www.csoonline.com/ ). Kathleen will be extremely busy next two weeks. She expects us to reach consensus on the narrow scoped I2NSF charter and update the drafts to reflect the charter within next few weeks. Kathleen will review the charter and the drafts in detail after she finished her next two week's busy work.

Dan stated that I2NSF has made very good progress. The  OCC (OpenCloud Connect) considers the work from I2NSF as important for managing security functions.

Kathleen advised to submit a WG-forming BOF request for IETF 93 with a charter proposal similar or close to the focused version of the charter posted recently on the mail list.

Linda