Routing Policy System (rps) Charter


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Chair(s)

Operational Requirements Area Director(s):

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Description of Working Group

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 focus on inter-domain routing protocols, but will also instigate, review, or (if appropriate) produce additional RFCs to support other protocols such as multicasting and resource reservation.

Goals and Milestones

Done
Hold BOF to discuss scope of work and working group creation.
Jul 95
Submit initial draft specification of RPSL as an Internet-Draft.
Jul 95
Submit draft specification of tools and the database model as an Internet-Draft.
Sep 95
Submit revised Internet-Draft.
Dec 95
Submit document on RPSL and Experiences to IESG to be considered for publication as an RFC.
Jan 96
Submit RPSL specification to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.

No Current Internet-Drafts

No Request for Comments