Internet Policy Control Discussion and RSVP Policy BOF

Monday, December 9 at 1000-1130
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DESCRIPTION:

In recent years, the internet has been rapidly transforming into a
commercially oriented communication infrastructure required to support
a wide range of new services. Several new proposals of service models
and signaling protocols advocate the use of user-initiated service
differentiation for supporting QoS (e.g., RSVP).

Policy has many meanings and much potential range (simple access
control on to sophisticated accounting solutions).  One important
question is which of the aspects of policy are even within range
of the existing IETF working groups (such as RSVP) and which are
out of range because they are about business models or because they
have unresolved research problems.

This BOF will first allow a one-time IETF discussion of the general
scope of policy topics in IETF.  

 - the potential for a consistent, comprehensive, and flexible 
   policy control 
 - engineering versus research on a common framework for service
   providers and other policy users.

Secondly it will give some forum for discussion of three RSVP
WG drafts, two of which are in the research category, and one
of which is to be discussed for standards track (but briefly)
in the San Jose RSVP WG meeting.

Initial discussions on RSVP policy were carried out by the RSVP WG.
At the Montreal IETF, it became clear that some of the fundamental
aspects of the problem exceed the scope of the RSVP WG, and should be
handled in a second track.  A two track effort should permit the most
pressing tasks to be developed on a fast schedule (through the RSVP
WG), while allowing the more complex architectural aspects to be
thoroughly investigated in a separate RG.  The task is split between
the following parallel tracks:

(1) Define common data formats and extensions to RSVP for carrying policy
    control information. The purpose of these extensions is to ensure
    inter-operability in multi-vendor environments while providing an
    initial vehicle for experimentation and development of internet
    policies. This work is to be developed within the RSVP WG.

(2) Establish a coherent IPC model, architecture, and a set of common,
    globally adequate policies. This track would be carried out by a
    proposed IPC RG, in the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF).


AGENDA:

PART I: RSVP EXTENSIONS

1.  BOF Introduction and overview (S. Herzog, 5 min)

    - Overview of current specs
        > draft-ietf-rsvp-policy-ext-01.{ps,txt}
        > draft-ietf-rsvp-policy-arch-01.{ps,txt}
        > draft-ietf-rsvp-policy-lpm-01.{ps,txt}

    - Division of work with the RSVP WG

2.  RSVP Extensions for Policy Control   (S. Herzog, 25 min)

    - Background
    - draft-ietf-rsvp-policy-ext-01.{ps,txt}

3.  Discussion of RSVP Policy Extensions (10 min)

    - How far are we from Last Call?

PART II: INTERNET POLICY CONTROL (IPC)

1.  Some Service Providers' Perspectives on IPC: (25 min)

    - IPC mechanisms used today.
    - Policy needs, requirements and end-goals for IPC.
    - Priority order.

    Laura Cunningham (MCI)
    Tim O'Malley (BBN Planet)

2.  Open-Ended Discussion (20 min)

3.  A proposed IRTF RG charter, future agendas, and 
    conclusion (S. Herzog, 5 min)