Session Date/Time: 19 Mar 2025 08:30

rtgarea

Summary

The Routing Area (rtgarea) open meeting included updates from the Routing Directorate, discussions on improving document quality, an overview of IAB activities, and a presentation on control plane protocols over QUIC. The meeting also covered working group assignments.

Key Discussion Points

Routing Directorate Report: The report highlighted the number of reviews completed by the Routing Directorate, the quality of routing area drafts and non-routing area drafts, and the importance of keeping reviewer skills and interests up-to-date.
Improving Document Quality: Focus on spell check, grammar, readability before technical review. Also, the lens of the implementer, the person who is going to code it up and from a view of an operator who is going to deploy and operate it. Cross-working group collaboration and early reviews are critical. Routing Directorate last call review on behalf of the AD
IAB Activities: Discussed IAB's role in long-term technical direction, architectural oversight, and collaboration with IESG and ISOC. Highlighted workshops and technical programs as avenues for in-depth discussions and problem-solving. Requested input from the community to identify potential workshop topics or architectural concerns.
Control Plane Protocols over QUIC: Explored the potential benefits and challenges of using QUIC for control plane protocols. Addressed topics of speed, authentication, streams, session resumption, implementation difficulties, and debugging. Need for standards API.

Decisions and Action Items

ADs to consider routing directorate reviews for more documents: The ADs will look into how to better encourage other areas to request reviews from the routing directorate.
Routing Directorate to gather feedback on experience: The Routing Directorate will gather feedback on how to improve assignment processes and feedback delivery.
Routing Directorate Reviewer process change: A new process is being implemented for Routing Directorate reviews, where a re-review is done by the original reviewer after comments have been addressed, and the result of the second review is captured in Datatracker.

Next Steps

Explore a side meeting or BOF (Birds of a Feather) session to further discuss control plane protocols over QUIC.