RE: OPSEC Working Group? Need people to do the work.

["Smith, Donald" <Donald.Smith@qwest.com>]

Maybe we can begin by defining roles/names for those Network Elements? 
These are my suggestions. I believe the definitions
and names I have below are fairly commonly used by ISP's.


Core: An NE that provides INTRA-AS access. Usually owned and managed by
one corporation.

Border: Peering border a NE that provides access for INTER-AS peers into
an ISP's core. 

Edge aka customer edge: An NE that provides physical access for
customers into an ISP's network.

Aggregation : An NE that aggregates multiple customer's traffic into a
single (usually faster) medium.


From a management and access perspective :
The core and aggregation NE's should never have direct connections
outside of the
ISP's network nor any shared management.
 
The Borders will have direct links to peers and some shared "management"
(at least control plane updates).

The Edge's will have direct links to customers and some shared
"management" (control plane updates).
 
Donald.Smith@qwest.com GCIA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-opsec@psg.com [mailto:owner-opsec@psg.com] On 
> Behalf Of George M Jones
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:00 AM
> To: Ejay Hire
> Cc: opsec@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: OPSEC Working Group? Need people to do the work.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:24, Ejay Hire wrote:
> > I'll offer comments/experience.  What else do you need?.
> 
> Immediate need is thoughts on charter:
>   - scope (routers, switches, core, edge, soho, wireless....???)
>   - Goals: documenting existing best practice? Encoraging better 
>            feature sets?
>   - docs to be produced (framework, generic ip reqs, core reqs...
> 			 BCP vs. Info...., device reqs. vs
> 			 recommended usage)
>   - timetable
>   - relationship to other efforts (e.g. T1 wg...Chris ?)
> 
> Once that's done, we'll need people willing to write and
> review the drafts.
> 
> ---George
> 
> 
> 
>