Dear Augusto and Otto,
as far as I see there are mainly two "competing" proposals:
A. merge 6.2/6.4 and establish a separate WG on Internet issues
B. refresh aims and scopes of WG 6.4 (to include parts of the actual WG 6.4)
Which parts?
and modify 6.4 aims and scopes in a way that they include most or all of the internet related questions (which were proposed by Arun Iyengar and - earlier - by Guy Pujolle).
I understand that Augusto is now in favour of alternative B. To my opinion, this would be indeed the preferable solution.
As far as I understand, both proposals are identical in the sense that the scopes of the 2 WGs would end up to be defined in the same way. The only issue is to know which numbers we assign them. This is an "irrelevant detail" to me.
Keeping the existing WG6.2 and WG6.4 (while changing their scopes) requires to restructure the memberships anyway. This is like disbanding them and recreating them from scratch. Now WG6.4 would not deal with the IP layer at all any more, but only with layers over IP, and even over TCP/UDP if I understand well.
All "lower layer experts" have to move to WG6.2 then.
And conferences like HPN and PfHSN would move to WG6.2 too.
WG6.4 would be an empty WG where everything would have to be created.
I don't see much difference with creating a new WG from scratch. Do you?
Best regards, Guy
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