Routing Policy System Working Group

This is the final charter that I will mail to Megan tomorrow. Last
chance to make comments.

Cengiz

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Cengiz Alaettinoglu       Information Sciences Institute
(310) 822-1511            University of Southern California
Charter:

The Routing Policy System Working Group will (1) define a language,
referred to as Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL), for
describing routing policy constraints; (2) define a simple and robust
distributed registry model for publishing routing policy constraints; and
(3) define a set of tools for analysing registered policy constraints, for
checking global consistency, for generating router configurations, and for
diagnosing operational routing problems.  It is expected that RPSL will
enter the standards track.

The RPSL will be routing protocol independent as well as router
configuration format independent to support various routing protocols such
as BGP, IDRP, SDRP, and various router technologies.  The RPSL will be
backward compatible with RIPE-181 whenever possible; the registry model
will be based on the RIPE database.

The working group will also instigate, review, or (if appropriate) produce
additional RFCs to support other protocols such as multicasting and
resource reservation.

Goals and Milestones:

 Apr 95: BOF to discuss scope of work and WG creation

 Jun 95: Publish initial draft specification of RPSL
      
 Jul 95: Publish draft specification of tools and the database model

 Jul 95: First WG meeting

 Aug 95: Publish second draft specifications
         Begin collecting implementation experience for Standards track RFCs

 Dec 95: Second WG meeting
         Publish RPSL and Experiences RFC

 Jan 96: Submit RFCs for proposed standard

Administrative Structure:

 Chair(s):
        Cengiz Alaettinoglu  <cengiz at isi.edu>
        Another co-chair TBA

 Document Editor(s):
        Cengiz Alaettinoglu <cengiz at isi.edu>

 Internet Area Director(s)
        Mike O'Dell   <odell at uunet.uu.net>

 Area Advisor
        Mike O'Dell   <odell at uunet.uu.net>

 Mailing lists:
        General Discussion:     rps at isi.edu
        To Subscribe:           rps-request at isi.edu
        Archive:                ftp.isi.edu:/pub/rps



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