possible charter

[abha ahuja]

Hey All!

Here is a draft of a possible charter for our group.
Comments/changes/feedback, etc, needed.

The list of references at the bottom is very incomplete.  I'd appreciate
pointers from you folk of papers/links that should be included.

-abha ;)

Prefix Taxonomy Ongoing Measurement & Inter Network Experiment (ptomaine)

Chair(s):
Abha Ahuja <ahuja at wibh.net>

Operations Area Director(s):

Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>
Bert Wijnen <bwijnen at lucent.com>

Operations and Management Area Advisor:

Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>

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DESCRIPTION:

Routing table growth has been an issue of much concern.  Many have talked
about temporary methods to alleviate the drain on Internet resources.  In the
vein of these discussions, we started to consider aggregation and filtering
techniques to reduce the amount of routing information carried by routers with
global knowledge.

The purpose of the Prefix Taxonomy Ongoing Measurement & Inter Network
Experiment WG is to consider and measure the problem of routing table growth
and possible interim methods for reducing the impact of routing table resource
consumption within a network.  The WG aims to develop suggestions for
filtering and aggregating prefixes to reduce an individual networks routing
table size and possible knobs with the least loss of reachability.


GOALS:

1) To provide a clear definition of the problems facing Internet
   Routing Scaling today.
2) To provide a taxonomy to describe prefix information for peer review.
3) To collate measurements of routing table scaling data and publish a
   reference list.
4) To discuss and document methods of filtering/aggregating prefix
   information and to discuss and document what support from protocols or
   vendor knobs might be helpful in doing this.
5) To determine the long and short term effects of filtering/aggregating
   prefixes to reduce router resource consumption.
6) To develop methods of controlling policy information propagation in
   order to limit the need for propagation of prefix sub-aggregates.

MILESTONES:

Nov 01 - Submit Taxonomy Draft
Dec 01 - Submit Problem Statement Draft
Jan 02 - Submit References Draft
Feb 02 - Submit Policy Propagation Draft

Some Relevant References:

http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html
http://www.telstra.net/ops/bgp/index.html
http://www.apnic.net/stats/bgp
http://www.merit.edu/ipma