EEPG agenda and workplan
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 94 17:39:44 +0100
Please find below the agenda for the EEPG meeting in Amsterdam. I have
appended a draft EEPG workplan and terms of reference for discussion
during this meeting.
See you all in Amsterdam,
Bernhard.
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Draft agenda for the 1:st EEPG meeting
Amsterdam, January 25 1994
1. Admin
Minutes and like.
Introduction of the EEPG
2. Traffic exchange points in Europe
Traffic exchange points in Europe (pre-GIX DMZ's)
Presentation of the D-GIX pilot
As have been indicated in the EEPG workplan there is
a need to define the frameworks for European traffic
exchange points. A discussion paper will be submited
within shortly.
3. MBONE coordination
With the ambition of securing a high quality of service
within the European MBONE installation we need to look
on some recommendations to be made here.
Erik-Jan Bos and Tony Bates will make a presentation on
the subject.
4. DANTE routing plan
The DANTE routing plan will be discussed in conjunction
with general European routing framework.
Willem van der Scheun will make a presentationon the subject.
5. The EEPG ToR and workplan
Discussion of the ToR and workplan for a decision
on both.
6. Any Other Business
7. Closing
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Draft EEPG Workplan
Bernhard Stockman
January 16, 1994
1. Introduction
EEPG is active in the area of operational coordination of basic
network services as described in the EEPG ToR. Within this area the
focus will vary depending on the status and needs of the European
networking community. The EEPG workplan will accordingly be updated
to reflect current priorities. At the time of writing the
development and deployment of distributed GIX's and the coordination
of the multicast service in Europe is seen as having the highest
priority.
2. Development and deployment of distributed GIX's in Europe.
The development and deployment of traffic exchange points comes in
several aspects:
- Deployment of traffic exchange points (DMZ's).
Such traffic exchange points have been announced in Amsterdam,
Paris and Stockholm. It is probable that also other such points
will be installed. There is a need to define technical and
managemental frameworks for exchange points. It could also be
useful to make an investigation of existing traffic interchange
points in Europe not officially announced.
- Development of distributed GIX's.
The technology is not fully mature to deploy production mode
distributed GIX points. Two European projects are today active in
the development of distributed GIX's, the PRIDE project and the
D-GIX pilot project. EEPG will work in close liaison with these
projects to provide a forum where emerging ideas and concepts can
be discussed and recommendations made as necessary.
- Deployment of distributed GIX's in Europe
Although the deployment of distributed GIX's may be governed by
market forces it may show useful to make recommendations on the
general distribution to secure a stable and manageable network
infrastructure. Close related with this is the need to produce
recommendations on the technical and mangemental frameworks for
distributed GIX's to secure quality of service.
3. MBONE coordination
There is an urgent need to maintain and improve the current European
MBONE topology and management. EEPG will, in collaboration with the
global Internet multicast parties, provide recommendations for the
deployment of multicast services within Europe.
4. Other areas of interest
Although not having the highest priority some other areas of
interest could here be mentioned.
EEPG will participate in the promotion and deployment of commonly
agreed statistical frameworks. In this also goes recommendations on
the positioning of statistical servers to gather traffic data on a
pan-European level.
EEPG will participate in the ongoing efforts to estimate network
growth and its impact on the deployed network infrastructure. When
needed recommendations will be made to secure scalability and
quality of service under current growth conditions.
EEPG will participate in the evaluation of TTS and when necessary
produce recommendations for the coordinated usage of such systems to
facilitate for commonly agreed methods in the area of fault
isolation and repair.
EEPG will participate in the operational coordination of the domain
name service service within Europe and in collaboration with the
global Internet, when necessary produce recommendations for the
improvement of the deployed European domain name services.
5. Time schedule for deliverables
MBONE deployment recommendation: March 1994
Traffic exchange requirement specification: March 1994
GIX distribution recommendation July 1994
GIX framework specification July 1994
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TERMS OF REFERENCE
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EUROPEAN ENGINEERING AND PLANNING GROUP (EEPG)
Bernhard Stockman
December 27, 1993
The European Engineering and Planning Group is the platform for the
engineering and deployment planning of the European part of the
Internet. The Internet shall here be seen in a broader sense not
just networks based on the TCP/IP protocol suite. EEPG will be
active in the area of operational planning and engineering among
various network service providers. EEPG will work in close liaison
with the Intercontinental Enginering and Planning Group (IEPG) and
bring attention to IEPG key activities as relevant within the
European networking environment. EEPG can thus be seen as the
European branch of the IEPG and European participation in the IEPG
will be drawn from EEPG. EEPG is open for anyone but is mainly
intended for operational planning and engineering among network
service providers.
RIPE, being the organization for coordination of European network
services, is the adequate framework for the EEPG. EEPG will thus
have the form of a RIPE Working Group and meet in conjunction with
general RIPE meetings, currently three times a year.
With the recent development and growth of the global network
environment and the foreseen problems in maintaining an ubiquitous
and homogeneous global network infrastructure the EEPG sees as its
role to to identify and prioritize key activities of a technical
nature which have a direct impact on the European and worldwide
networking environment. For this reason EEPG will:
- propose solutions for an optimized interconnectivity
infrastrucutre among European network service providers with the
ambition of securing maximal connectivity and flexibility in terms
of engineering and management. With the increasing number of
international network service providers, the maintenance and
improvement of pan-European and global connectivity is an obvious
challenge.
- propose coordinated deployment of basic distributed network
applications. The overall future of the global networking
infrastructure is dependent on our common ability to evolve the
collection of basic applications in the direction of enhanced
quality and reliability of services.
- propose practices and methods for efficient fault isolation and
recovery as well as coordinated information dissemination in the
area of network management. The focus here is to advocate the
necessity of basic common operational methodologies and procedures
within each network provider's operational domain to ensure that
the user community can be serviced with a seamless end to end
capability with appropriate mechanisms to ensure overall quality
and reliability of the offered service. This area explicitly
includes Network Information Center (NIC) and Network Operations
Center (NOC) interaction.
An EEPG work-plan will be maintained describing current areas of
interest and priorities. The work-plan will from time to time be
updated and documented to reflect changes of focus.
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