Establishing a Forum for Operational Issues BOF (OPERA) Reported by Erik Huizer/SURFnet The BOF was intended to answer the following three questions: 1. For which applications and services is there a need for international operation and coordination? The discussion was restricted to services above the network layer (i.e., we assume that ping works). A list of services that people thought were in need of international coordination and an operational platform was compiled. The individual items on the list were not discussed. The intention was to get insight in the potential upcoming operational issues. o CIDR deployment o Information services o DNS o Route servers o Distributed NICs o URN resolution services o End-to-end services o Authentication services o Firewall operation o Channel/tunnel coordination o Directory services o E-mail o Archiving services o Mirroring services o Multi-lingual services o Trouble ticket hand-off o Policy determination o CERT o Quality of service/service level agreements o Access to services through limited protocols (e.g., e-mail access only) 2. Which international bodies exist that deal with operations, and that could serve as a home to these application services operations? The following non-exclusive list was identified: o IETF-OPS o IEPG o RIPE o EEPPG o APnic o APccirn-APepg o FIRST/CERT o InterNIC o MHS-Managers o Bind/Namedroppers Geoff Houston as chair of the IEPG then presented the charter of the IEPG that had recently been revised. This charter will be published as an Informational RFC. In summary: the IEPG is open to anyone who wants to discuss operational issues related to the Internet. Anything will be discussed provided there is a constituency. To subscribe to the IEPG mailing list send mail to iepg-request@aarnet.edu.au. Regional presentations from EEPG, APepg and the North American equivalent followed. 3. Is there enough interest to find a home for operational issues for applications and services? The consensus was that there is a need (see the list under question one). Consensus was also reached that the IEPG, with its current charter, seemed like a very suitable and independent home for such issues. The recommendation from this BOF is that the IEPG should serve as the platform for Internet operators to discuss operational issues of all kinds, and to coordinate services. The IETF is the platform where operational requirements and standards are discussed and defined. If the IEPG runs into issues that require standards related activities (e.g., changes in standards, new standards, requirements documents, etc.), these will be referred to the IETF. Although it is acknowledged that the borderline between the IETF and IEPG will not always be this sharp, it is recommended that this distinction be followed as close as possible. Input from IEPG to IETF (and vice versa) is of course essential for both bodies. IEPG Charter The Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG) is a group principally comprised of Internet service operators. The common objective of the group is to promote a technically coordinated operational environment of the global Internet. The activities of the IEPG will be within the following areas: o To facilitate the operations and management of global Internet services, o To promote the introduction of new Internet services within the global Internet, and o Liaison with related Internet operations groups and liaison with technical development groups. Explicitly the IEPG is not a group which will conduct activities of a technical developmental nature. Membership of the IEPG shall be open. Any individual may subscribe to the IEPG mailing list, and all meeting announcements, meeting agendas, meetings and meeting reports shall be made openly available. The IEPG will maintain an archive of material available using World Wide Web (WWW) access tools. The location of this WWW archive, and this charter, will be disseminated to the Internet community through an Informational RFC. Attendees Claudio Allocchio Claudio.Allocchio@elettra.trieste.it Tony Bates tony@ripe.net Jon Boone boone@psc.edu Erik-Jan Bos erik-jan.bos@surfnet.nl Luc Boulianne lucb@bunyip.com Scott Bradner sob@harvard.edu Robert Brenner Robert.W.Brenner@gte.sprint.com J. Nevil Brownlee nevil@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz Joesph Burrescia burrescia@es.net Randy Bush randy@psg.com C. Allan Cargille allan.cargille@cs.wisc.edu John Carlson johnc@cac.washington.edu Henry Clark henryc@oar.net Michael Collins collins@es.net Steve Corbato corbato@nwnet.net John Curran jcurran@nic.near.net Shane Davis shane@delphi.com Farokh Deboo fjd@synoptics.com Sean Doran smd@use.net Ian Duncan id@cc.mcgill.ca Havard Eidnes havard.eidnes@runit.sintef.no Urs Eppenberger eppenberger@switch.ch Roger Fajman raf@cu.nih.gov Steve Feldman feldman@mfsdatanet.com Dennis Ferguson dennis@ans.net Jill Foster Jill.Foster@newcastle.ac.uk Tony Genovese genovese@es.net Elise Gerich epg@merit.edu Arlene Getchell getchell@es.net Deborah Hamilton debbieh@internic.net Eugene Hastings hastings@psc.edu Alisa Hata hata@cac.washington.edu Denise Heagerty denise@dxcoms.cern.ch Roland Hedberg Roland.Hedberg@umdac.umu.se John Houlker j.houlker@waikato.ac.nz Tim Howes tim@umich.edu Richard Huber rvh@ds.internic.net Erik Huizer Erik.Huizer@SURFnet.nl Jinho Hur jhhur@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr Geoff Huston g.huston@aarnet.edu.au Barbara Jennings bjjenni@sandia.gov Marko Kaittola Marko.Kaittola@dante.org.uk Sean Kennedy liam@nic.near.net John Klensin Klensin@infoods.unu.edu Jim Knowles jknowles@binky.arc.nasa.gov Richard Kooijman r.kooijman@et.tudelft.nl So Young Lee sylee@hen.nca.go.kr Frank Liu fcliu@pacbell.com Glenn Mansfield glenn@aic.co.jp J. Scott Marcus smarcus@bbn.com Jun Matsukata jm@eng.isas.ac.jp Linda Millington l.millington@noc.ulcc.ac.uk Keith Mitchell keith@pipex.net Pushpendra Mohta pushp@cerf.net Kim Morla kmorla@pucp.edu.pe Jun Murai jun@wide.ad.jp Phil Nesser pjnesser@rocket.com Masataka Ohta mohta@cc.titech.ac.jp Andrew Partan asp@uunet.uu.net Marsha Perrott perrott@prep.net George Phillips phillips@cs.ubc.ca Mark Prior mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au Francois Robitaille francois.robitaille@crim.ca Jim Romaguera romaguera@netconsult.ch Srinivas Sataluri sri@internic.net Tim Seaver tas@concert.net Suzanne Smith smith@es.net David Staudt dstaudt@nsf.gov Barbara Sterling bjs@mcdata.com Bernhard Stockman boss@ebone.net Tim Streater t.c.streater@dante.org.uk Marten Terpstra marten@ripe.net Claudio Topolcic topolcic@bbn.com Willem van der Scheun scheun@sara.nl Maria Vistoli vistoli@infn.it Ruediger Volk rv@informatik.uni-dortmund.de Jessica Yu jyy@merit.edu Chin Yuan cxyuan@pacbell.com