Update on GROW BOF

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, David Meyer wrote:
>  	The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is fundamental to the
>  	operation of the Internet. In recent years, the occurrence
>  	of BGP related operational issues has increased, and
>  	while overall understanding of the default-free routing
>  	system has improved, there is still a long and growing
>  	list of concerns. Among these are routing table growth rates,
>  	dynamic properties of the routing system, and the effects
>  	of routing policy on both the size and dynamic nature of
>  	the routing table. In addition, new and innovative uses of
>  	BGP, such as the use of BGP as a signaling protocol for
>  	applications such as VPN, have created new and unexpected
>  	operational issues.
>  	
>  	The purpose of the Global Routing Operations WG (GROW) is
> 	continue and expand on the original charter of the
> 	PTOMAINE WG. In particular, the purpose of GROW is to
> 	consider and measure the problem of routing table growth,
> 	and where appropriate, to document the operational
> 	aspects of measurement, policy, security, and VPN
> 	infrastructures. 

Two specific comments and a generic one.

1) I'm having hard time grasping BGP VPN's as part of "Global Routing 
Operations".

2) It is not entirely clear to me, based on the wording of the first
sentence of the second paragraph, whether ptomaine is being shut down --
as otherwise the apparent overlap seems a bit confusing.

And, at least the tentative description seems still rather vague and
open-ended.  At least for the charter, a more specific goals would be
preferable so everything related to operational aspects of BGP would not
be on the table.

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