Charter

Chair(s): TBD <>

Operational Requirements Area Director(s) Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu> Bernhard Stockman <boss@ebone.net>

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Description of Working Group: The Topology Engineering Working Group monitors and coordinates connections between networks, particularly routing relationships.

• Monitor interconnectivity among national and international backbones and mid-level networks.

  
  
  

• Monitor interconnection policies with a view of moving toward a common scheme for managing interconnectivity.

  
  
  

• Act as a forum where network engineers and representatives of groups of networks can come together to coordinate and tune their interconnections for better efficiency of the Internet as a whole.

Goals and Milestones:

Ongoing Reports to the Internet community will be given reflecting what we learn each quarter. This periodic report will be of use to the IETF, to FARnet, and to the CCIRN members.

Dec 90 An immediate project is to produce an RFC which will help mid-level networks when changing their interconnectivity.

Internet Drafts:

No Current Internet drafts.

Request For Comments:

None to date.