<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="">Dear db-wg community,<br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">Please find below the problem definition for the (upcoming) NWI-12 item as we have discussed it and envisioned it for this project. <br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class=""><b class="">Problem definition:<br class=""></b></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">Back on October 2019 during the RIPE 79 meeting in Rotterdam, we discussed about the need to move forward with a next generation of NRTM service. Upon the completion of NWI-9 and the lifting of the legal restrictions, we can now proceed to design the new solution. As we discussed preciously, the version 3 of the current NRTM solution is not suitable anymore for network operations on 2020. A summary of the reasons are:<br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">-Is a Telnet based protocol, thus:<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• No keep alive mechanism is adopted, <br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• It provides plain text/unencrypted transport of data<br class=""></div><br class="">-The bootstrap process is not always trivial and sometimes is slow <br class="">-Long time synchronisation is complicated and users need to re-synchronise after a couple of weeks. <br class="">-No well specified protocol (There is just a PDF doc that describes it)<br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class="">For all the reasons above (and reasons that we might have not think about yet but you are welcome to share), it becomes a necessity for the community to proceed with a new implementation that will be easily adopted by modern tools and last for the years to come. </span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope the above text is sufficient for the db-wg chairs to kick off the process and the community to share its feedback. </div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""> <div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Best regards,<br class=""><br class="">Stavros Konstantaras | Sr. Network Engineer | AMS-IX <br class="">M +31 (0) 620 89 51 04 | T +31 20 305 8999<br class=""><a href="http://ams-ix.net" class="">ams-ix.net</a></div> </div> <br class=""></body></html>