Option A Vs Option B (RE: [DNA] CONSENSUS CALL : Document merges)

[Mohan.Parthasarathy@nokia.com]

I read these drafts quite sometime back, so can't answer
this question myself.

If i have to implement the DNA protocol (draft-ietf-dna-protocol),
should i need to read the "contents" of all the other three drafts ?
Assume the reader is familiar with RFC 2461 which is the basic
one without which none of this would make sense. It is still not
clear to me how merging will speed up the process ? It will sure
slow down the review process because folks are normally good at
reviewing smaller documents.

-mohan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-dna@ecselists.eng.monash.edu.au 
>[mailto:owner-dna@ecselists.eng.monash.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
>ext Suresh Krishnan
>Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 3:36 PM
>To: Dna
>Cc: Suresh Krishnan (QB/EMC); Greg Daley; Jari Arkko
>Subject: [DNA] CONSENSUS CALL : Document merges
>Importance: High
>
>Hi Folks,
>    At the last meeting in Dallas lot of concerns were raised 
>about the number of documents being produced by the WG. The 
>Consensus was to reduce the number of documents to keep 
>related information together.
>    The chairs have identified two possible merger scenarios 
>and would like to know the opinion of the working group 
>regarding these two.
>
>
>Option A:
>=========
>Combine
>1) Detecting Network Attachment in IPv6 Networks (DNAv6) and
>2) Tentative Options for Link-Layer Addresses in IPv6 
>Neighbour Discovery (draft-ietf-dna-protocol-00 + 
>draft-ietf-dna-tentative-00)
>
>into one document.
>
>Merge
>3) Detecting Network Attachment in IPv6 - Best Current 
>Practices for hosts and
>4) DNA with unmodified routers: Prefix list based approach
>(draft-ietf-dna-hosts-03 + draft-ietf-dna-cpl-02)
>
>into another document.
>
>Option B:
>=========
>
>Merge all the above mentioned documents
>
>* draft-ietf-dna-protocol-00
>* draft-ietf-dna-tentative-00
>* draft-ietf-dna-hosts-03
>* draft-ietf-dna-cpl-02
>
>into a single document.
>
>This consensus call will last for two weeks and will end on 
>the 29th of June 2006. Please respond to the list whether you
>
>* Prefer Option A
>* Prefer Option B
>
>If you do not have a preference and you are ok with either 
>option, please respond with "Don't care ". If we have 
>consensus on the Don't cares the chairs will make the decision.
>
>Thanks
>Suresh and Greg
>