Dear all, Many thanks for those participating in the side meeting on Internet addressing during the IETF 112 week. As suggested during the meeting, we want to take various points of discussion during the meeting onto the mailing list to continue discussion here on possible ways forward.
Specifically, we wanted to come back on the issue that a larger architectural discussion may be needed, a point that we make towards the end of the GA draft (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jia-intarea-internet-addressing-gap-analysis/), but which was also core to Dirk K's main point that only such architecture discussion may lead to possibly needed changes to addressing. We will be looking into such possibly larger discussion along different possible avenues. For our discussion here on the INT area list, we found Dino's related suggestion particularly useful in that we may need a discussion on what we (as users) may want from a network. We feel that our current GA draft may contribute to this question by observing that the many extensions to Internet addressing that we have gathered so far may be seen as an expression of a desired feature that those proposing the extension may want to see from the network. Hence, in addition to positioning those extensions as identified gaps to Internet addressing, we may want to formulate those extensions as desired features towards an extended Internet system, not just addressing; this can be done through suitably extending the GA draft with another section. Why is this useful? We think that such view provides an observational input into the question that Dino suggests to answer, which in turn links to the larger architectural discussion that Dirk K suggests to have. While the overall architectural discussion may (and likely will) touch on more than 'just' addressing, we as a community may contribute to the discussion by rationalizing the work that has been done in this space. We would like to solicit thoughts on this proposed way forward as concrete steps for the community here on the list. Also, anybody wanting to provide concrete input and contribution to this proposed revision of the draft is more than welcome. Best, Dirk (on behalf of the co-authors)
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