From: Adcock, Chris [mailto:cadcock@epcglobalinc.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 17:21
To: bwijnen@lucent.com; brc@zurich.ibm.com
Cc: Hogan, Bernie
Subject: SLRRP

Gentlemen,

I am writing to you regarding the recent request within the IETF to form a 
work group to develop a specification on the SLRRP protocol. We have 
reviewed the matter at length and feel that the situation has arisen due to 
philosophical differences within the EPCglobal Reader Protocol (RP) 
group, coupled with the fact that the EPCglobal standards development 
process is still in the early days, and especially so compared to the IETF. 
At the same time the EPCglobal community has, through its experience to 
date, now gained a better understanding on what should be incorporated 
into the RP specification.

We feel that the correct course of action for the EPCglobal community is 
to charter a new RP initiative that will focus on all of the requirements and 
to provide the necessary process that will ensure a successful conclusion 
to the work.

I am sure you appreciate that having two work groups working on the same 
specification is not ideal and will likely be challenging and problematic. The 
issues are only compounded when it spans two different standards 
organizations. In my capacity as President of EPCglobal, I would ask for 
your support in avoiding these potential problems by not creating a separate 
work group. It will only cause confusion in the marketplace and impact the 
work we undertake on behalf of our members.

We invite the IETF community to review our work product and provide 
commentary which will ensure that we are not creating any issues relating 
to IETF standards.

Thanks you in advance for your consideration of this request.

Yours faithfully

Chris Adcock