Re: Reacting to previous messages

[Cheng-Yin Lee <leecy@nortelnetworks.com>]

Fred Baker wrote:

> At 09:41 AM 6/1/99 -0700, David Meyer wrote:
> >>> A new WG is proposed precisely because there appears to be sufficient
> >>> interest and motivation for exploring new models of multicast.
> >
> >       IETF working groups are not in the business of doing research
> >       (and this is true of the IETF in general).
>
> It does raise the question whether this should be done in the IRTF...

I don't believe there were intentions to do research work in this proposed
WG, but correct me if i'm wrong. Work items have been proposed and are
intended to be focussed.

What i'm puzzling over now is how are proposed WGs actually evaluated.
Could someone enlighten me, pls?

thanks,
cyl