Assignment of OSI NSAP Addresses (osinsap)
Charter
Chair(s):
Richard Colella <colella@nist.gov>
OSI Integration Area Director(s)
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Description of Working Group:
The OSI NSAP Guidelines Working Group will develop guidelines for NSAP
assignment and administration (AKA, the care and feeding of your NSAPs).
Assuming use of existing NSAP address standards, there are two
questions facing an administration:
- Do I want to be an administrative authority for allocating NSAPs?
- how do I become an administrative authority?
- what organizations should expect to be an ``administrative
authority'' in the GOSIP version 2.0 address structure?
- where do I go to become an administrative authority?
- what are the administrative responsibilities involved?
- defining and implementing assignment procedures?
- maintaining the register of NSAP assignments.
- what are the advantages/disadvantages of being an
administrative authority?
- Whether NSAPS are allocated from my own or some other
administrative authority, what are the technical implications of
allocating the substructure of NSAPs?
- what should be routing domains?
- implications of being a separate routing domain (how it will
affect routes, optimality of routes, firewalls and
information hiding).
- organizing routing domains by geography versus by
organization versus by network topology....
- within any routing domain, how should areas be configured?
- (same implications as above).
Goals and Milestones:
Done Have the paper published as an RFC.
Done Produce a paper describing guidelines for the acquisition and
administration of NSAP addresses in the Internet.
Dec 90 Have the paper incorporated, in whole or in part, into the ``GOSIP
User Guide'' and the FNC OSI Planning Group document.
Internet Drafts:
No Current Internet drafts.
Request For Comments:
RFC Stat Published Title
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RFC1237 PS Jul 91 Guidelines for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet