Routing Policy System Working Group

Hi,

Here is the charter for the rps wg. There will be a BOF in
Danvers. Hope to see you all there.

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 specifying routing policy constraints;
(2) define a distributed database model
for registering routing policy constraints;
and (3) define a set of tools
for analysing registered policy constraints for 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 database model will be based on the RIPE database;
and RIPE pride tools will be upgraded to support RPSL
as an initial set of tools.

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

 May 95: Publish initial draft specification of RPSL
      
 Jun 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




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