[Babel-users] IETF news

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

Hi,

IETF is over, it was a lot of fun.  I think that the Babel BoF was
a success, we had what looked like a hundred people or so, many thanks to
Joel and Tony for chairing, and many, many thanks to Toke and Denis for
agreeing to come and give talks about their work.

One of the requirements for a standardised routing protocol is formalising
a management model (or information model, I'm not sure).  Barbara Stark
publicly volunteered at the BoF to do that for Babel, which is excellent
news.

Toke, Denis and myself had dinner with some IETF VIPs on Thursday.  A lot
was said, some of it open for publication, some not.  I get the feeling
that the responsible Area Director is optimistic, but she's
understandingly unwilling to be more committal until she sees the final
version of the charter.

A lot of conversations in corridors.  I feel that a lot of people are
looking at Babel (or are they just trying to say what I want to hear?),
and some are actively playing with the implementation.  If my feeling is
correct, we might get contributions from good specialists.

Homenet was boring (which is a good sign).  I presented my Babel profile
for Homenet, had some comments (especially about terminology), I asked for
it to become an IETF document, no opposition, we'll know the answer in two
weeks.  Ted Lemon presented naming issues in Homenet, he lost me pretty
quickly.

MANET didn't meet this time, but I've had the chance to have a chat with
a few of the MANET people -- DLEP is going forward, I get mixed signals
about AODVv2.  The MP-TCP group looks very healthy (and if you haven't
looked at MP-TCP yet, you're missing out on something really good).
Tcpinc/tcpcrypt looks fine, but it's difficult to judge since I haven't
been following them closely.  OSPF are happily adding new TLVs (hi Acee),
I didn't go to IS-IS.  Routing WG are discussing issues with source-specific
routing, I found the tone overly pessimistic.

IETF is boring without Markus.  And without Henning.  And without Steven.

-- Juliusz