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The Routing Research Group (RRG) is chartered to explore routing and
addressing problems that are important to the development of the
Internet
but are not yet mature enough for engineering work within the
IETF. As the
Internet continues to evolve, the challenges in providing a
scalable and
robust global routing system will also change over time. At the
moment,
the Internet routing and addressing architecture is facing
challenges in
scalability, mobility, multi-homing, and traffic engineering. Thus
the RRG
proposes to focus its effort on designing an alternate architecture
to meet
these challenges. Although Internet routing is a broad and active
research
area, a focused effort at this time is necessary to assure rapid
progress
towards reaching the goal.
More specifically, we propose to explore architectural alternatives,
including, but not limited to, separating host location and
identification
information. Research in addressing and algorithms will be
encouraged to
understand whether this new direction can provide effective
solutions, to
work out candidate designs as necessary for a complete solution,
and to
fully understand both the gains and the tradeoffs that the new
solutions
may bring. The group will produce a list of prioritized design
goals and a
recommendation for a routing and addressing architecture.
The RRG will have an open general discussion mailing list where any
topic of interest to the routing research community can be discussed,
and topics related to scalable routing architectures are particularly
encouraged. For specific topics with widespread discussion,
interested parties will be encouraged to form ad-hoc mailing lists,
with summaries sent to the general mailing list quarterly. Summaries
will contain the recent conclusions reached as well as the near-term
agenda for future progress.
It is commonly recognized that productive design efforts can be
carried out by small and focused design teams. The RRG encourages the
formation of focused design teams to explore specific design choices.
As with ad-hoc mailing lists, individual design teams are required to
report back quarterly to RRG with their progress and remaining open
issues. Each design team is expected to produce a set of Internet
Drafts that documents their current thinking.
The RRG, as a whole, will hold open meetings from time to time to
solicit input from, and supply information to, the broader
community. In particular, at least once per year there will be a
review of the group's activities held at an IETF meeting. More
frequent meetings will be held if it will speed group progress.
Ad-hoc and design team meetings are strongly encouraged.
The output of the group will consist of Informational and Experimental
RFCs as well as Journal Articles on the topics covered by the
subgroups.
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