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Re: [RRG] New RG charter discussion




On Feb 19, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Lixia Zhang wrote:

With the help from Aaron Falk, Tony and I drafted a new charter for RRG, see attached below. We would like to solicit people's inputs and comments regarding the new charter.

Tony and Lixia

It's bee a week since we posted the new charter draft. We got one reply from Heiner (Thanks Heiner !). This is a final call for input: If anyone has any further comment, please speak up now; if you agree with the new charter, we'd like to hear that too.
Otherwise we'll need to interpret the silence as consensus.

Tony and Lixia

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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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