Routing Policy System (rps) --------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 24-Oct-97 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Daniel Karrenberg Cengiz Alaettinoglu Operations and Management Area Director(s): John Curran Michael O'Dell Operations and Management Area Advisor: John Curran Mailing Lists: General Discussion:rps@isi.edu To Subscribe: rps-request@isi.edu Archive: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/rps Description of Working Group: The Routing Policy System Working Group will (1) define a language, referred to as Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL), for describing routing policy constraints; (2) define a simple and robust distributed registry model for publishing routing policy constraints; and (3) define a set of tools for analysing registered policy constraints, for checking global consistency, for generating router configurations, and for diagnosing operational routing problems. It is expected that RPSL will enter the standards track. The RPSL will be routing protocol independent as well as router configuration format independent to support various routing protocols such as BGP, IDRP, SDRP, and various router technologies. The RPSL will be backward compatible with RIPE-181 whenever possible; the registry model will be based on the RIPE database. The working group will focus on inter-domain routing protocols, but will also instigate, review, or (if appropriate) produce additional RFCs to support other protocols such as multicasting and resource reservation. Goals and Milestones: Jul 95 Submit initial draft specification of RPSL as an Internet-Draft. Jul 95 Submit draft specification of tools and the database model as an Internet-Draft. Sep 95 Submit revised Internet-Draft. Dec 95 Submit document on RPSL and Experiences to IESG to be considered for publication as an RFC. Jan 96 Submit RPSL specification to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- ------------------------------------------ Nov 96 Aug 97 Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) Mar 97 Aug 97 A strategy for the transition from RIPE-181 to RPSL Mar 97 New Application of Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) on the Internet Request For Comments: None to date.