Announcement of the Stockholm D-GIX pilot node.

[Bernhard Stockman <Bernhard.Stockman@localhost]

               ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SWEDISH ROUTING LABORATORY

                    AND THE STOCKHOLM D-GIX PILOT NODE
 



    We have herewith the pleasure to announce resources will be made
    available from the Swedish Technical Development Board for the
    establishment of a routing laboratory at the Royal Institute of
    Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.

    Routing in the fast growing Internet is becoming a more and more
    complex affair. There is an urgent need to develop new routing
    techniques to cope with this growth.  The Network Operation Center
    at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, has, by
    being intensively active in the area of building and maintaining
    large international networks such as NORDUnet and EBONE, achieved a
    recognized high degree of competence in advanced routing techniques.

    A first step towards a coordinated global routing was taken with the
    installation of the Global Internet eXchange (GIX) in Washington DC
    during 1991. Since first installed, the Washington DC GIX have faced
    an increased participation and traffic.  The number and connectivity
    complexity of network service providers, especially with the
    commercialization of Internet services, has grown rapidly beyond the
    capability of one single interconnection point.  As a result a
    distribution of the GIX concept has been discussed with the ambition
    to secure a stable, ubiquitous and homogeneous global network
    infrastructure.

    With the distribution of the GIX concept, regional interconnection
    points at various levels will be established creating the need for a
    layered framework of interconnections points or, with another name,
    Internet eXchange Facilities (IXF).  Pieces of the IXF technology
    have, however, yet to be developed.  The Swedish Routing Laboratory
    sees as one of its main tasks to participate in and stimulate the
    development of the IXF technology by the installation and
    maintenance of routing testbeds where routing concepts can be tested
    under controlled connectivity conditions.

    As a first step towards a fully developed IXF system the distributed
    GIX (D-GIX) has been proposed.  The Swedish Routing Laboratory will,
    as one of its first activities, be in charge of the set up,
    management and evaluation of a D-GIX pilot node in Stockholm.
    Starting at January 1, 1994, a pilot D-GIX installation node in
    Stockholm will be made available for connections from interested
    European network service providers.  The goal is to be able to
    handle production quality service already during January 1994, using
    an initial layered IXF structure.  A second pilot node is under
    construction in Paris and will be announced when ready for
    connections. For more information on the GIX and D-GIX concepts
    please see the reference list at the bottom of this announcement.
    For those interested in participating in the Stockholm D-GIX pilot
    node, please contact any of the authors to this announcement.

    It shall here be noted this is a pilot with the intention of testing
    out necessary technology to be used in the coming distributed
    GIX/IXF framework. For this reason participation in this pilot
    requires close collaboration with the other GIX partners to secure a
    stable high quality service.

    On behalf of the Swedish Routing Laboratory,

    Peter Lothberg 
    Email: roll@localhost
    Phone: +46 8 790-6514
    Fax:   +46 8 241179    
    Royal Institute of Technology
    Drottning Kristinas Vag 37B
    S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.

    Bernhard Stockman 
    Email: boss@localhost
    Phone: +46 8 790-6519
    Fax:   +46 8 241179    
    Royal Institute of Technology
    Drottning Kristinas Vag 37B
    S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.


    REFERENCES:

 1. Proposal for Global Internet Connectivity
    Guy Almes, Peter Ford, and Peter Lothberg
    12 June 1992

    Anonymous ftp from nic.nordu.net in directory iepg.
    As ascii text or PostScript

 2. Representation of IP Routing Policies in the RIPE Database
    Tony Bates, Jean-Michel Jouanigot, Daniel Karrenberg,
    Peter Lothberg, Marten Terpstra. (ripe-81).
    February, 1993

    Anonymous ftp from ftp.ripe.net in directory ripe/docs/ripe-docs
    As ascii text or PostScript

 3. Internet Routing in a Multi Provider, Multi Path Open Environment
    Tony Bates, Daniel Karrenberg, Peter Lothberg, Bernhard Stockman and
    Marten Terpstra. (ripe-82).

    Anonymous ftp from ftp.ripe.net in directory ripe/docs/ripe-docs
    As ascii text or PostScript

 4. DRAFT Distributed GIX Specification
    Haavard Eidnes, November 24 1993.

    Anonymous ftp from nic.nordu.net in directory iepg.
    As PostScript only.