Subject: [Rfced-future] Summary of our last interim

From: Eliot Lear <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 14:22:00 +0200

The chairs would like to thank all who participated in the Interim, with a special tip of the hat to those who helped take notes (Rich,
Martin, and others).

Summary

The meeting convened at 11:00pm GMT on Tuesday, September 15th.  After a very quick view of the Note Well and Agenda, each author presented each of the four proposals that the group had before us.  Eliot then presented a comparison that highlighted similarities and differences, and then some discussion followed.  There was some discussion about which proposals were most similar, and Nevil indicated that he could withdraw his in support of Mike’s.  Nobody raised any objections to this.

The chairs had hoped to find a single draft that could be viewed as a starting point.  However, during the hum it became clear that a good number of people were not yet ready to take such a decision.  In the jabber chat there were some concerns that by doing so, the inertia to make changes from what was adopted would be too high.

One person raised a particular issue, that even an advisor function would not be sufficient to continue the existing RPC functions. Others (in jabber) felt that this did not give the RPC enough credit.
It was also suggested that a neutral editor try to capture things we agree on.

Unless a large number of people want to adopt one of the drafts, this is how things will stand for now.

Next Steps

Eliot asked the authors to see how they might combine efforts. 

Those people who said they were not ready should discuss, please, on list, what will make them ready.

We discussed the possibility of another interim, and in particular to have that interim at a different time slot so as to share the pain. If that meeting should come to pass we will have to put it on the calendar very quickly.  That requires progress in terms of convergence.  Otherwise our next scheduled meeting will be at IETF109.
Eliot & Brian