Routing Policy System Working Group

  > cengiz at ISI.EDU (Cengiz Alaettinoglu) writes:
  > 
  > The Routing Policy System Working Group
  > will
  > (1) define a language,
  > referred to as Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL),
  > for specifying routing policy constraints;

s/specifying/describing/
s/constraints//

  > (2) define a distributed database model
  > for registering routing policy constraints;

define a simple and robust distributed registry for 
publishing routing policies

(do not wake sleeping dogs by calling it distributed database!)


  > and (3) define a set of tools
  > for analysing registered policy constraints 
,
  > for global consistency,
for checking global consistency 
  > for generating router configurations,
  > and for diagnosing operational routing problems.
and ...
  > 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;
registry

  > and RIPE pride tools will be upgraded to support RPSL
  > as an initial set of tools.
out of scope!

  > 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

Do you have it written NOW?

  >  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 RFC
  > s
  > 
  >  Dec 95: Second WG meeting
  >          Publish RPSL and Experiences RFC
  > 
  >  Jan 96: Submit RFCs for proposed standard



-------- Logged at  Tue Feb 28 15:55:15 MET 1995  ---------