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- Operational Requirements Area
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- Director(s):
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- o Susan Estrada: Estradas@cerf.net
- o Phill Gross: pgross@nri.reston.va.us
- o Bernhard Stockman: boss@sunet.se
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- Area Summary reported by Susan Estrada/CERFnet
- and Bernhard Stockman/NORDUnet
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- During this IETF five working groups met. There were three BOF's on
- operations related subjects. The Operational Requirements Area
- Directorate (ORAD) met together with FARNET which met in Santa Fe at the
- beginning of the IETF week.
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- User Connectivity Problems (ucp)
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- The User Connectivity Working Group met twice this week, in the true
- tradition of operators being overcommitted to these things, and actually
- came up with some really good outputs. They decided how to do a NOC
- phone book, standardized network status reports and standardized total
- ticket hand-off, which is the mechanized procedure. There should be
- some implementations happening in the next six months, which will
- actually make our lives a lot simpler.
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- If you're interested in getting on the mailing list, send a request to
- ucp-request@nic.near.net
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- Network Joint Management (njm)
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- Network Joint Management met once this week. Following the FARNET theme
- of ``Hardening the Mid-level Networks'', the Group discussed fifty
- simple things one can do to help the Internet be hard. The operators
- were encouraged to subscribe to nwg@merit.edu, which is going to be the
- open discussion list for what's going on in the networking community.
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- Network Status Reports (netstat)
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- Around thirty people attended this session. Network status reports were
- given from:
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- o ESnet (Tony Hain)
- o NSI (Milo Medin)
- o MILNET (Katherine Huber)
- o BONE-92 (Bernhard Stockman)
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- Phill Gross has been organizing the network status report sessions for
- some time. However, at this meeting, Phill turned the organization of
- this Group over to Gene Hastings. The choice of Gene as the new Chair
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- was an indication of the similar subjects covered by the Network Status
- Report sessions and the Network Joint Management Working Group, also
- chaired by Gene. It is hoped that both njm and netstat will benefit
- from this new close coordination.
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- Router Requirements Checklist (rreqlist).
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- The idea behind a router requirements checklist is to take that router
- requirements document an turn into something that may be used as
- guidance for purchasing router equipment. The Group decided that this
- was a useful thing to do. A strawman checklist will be constructed
- soon. To subscribe to the mailing list send a request to rcl@cerf.net.
- It's not clear that this work will be done within an IETF working group.
- The idea is rather to bash this out, and just get it issued as an
- informational RFC, without having to form a working group.
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- Quality of Service Measurements (opmeas)
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- This BOF only concerned quality of service measurements for wide area
- networks. Basically the idea here is that as regionals, or as networks,
- there is no need to find measurement criteria available. The base line
- is to find the right questions to ask and that is a good way to start.
- A working group will be formed and a mailing list set up for discussing
- this subject.
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- Benchmarking and Methodology (bmwg).
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- The Benchmarking folks met this week. They word-smithed the
- benchmarking document. They're going to have one more video meeting in
- January, and a draft document will be available by the next IETF.
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- The Operations Requirments Area Directorate (ORAD).
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- The ORAD session was chaired by Susan Estrada, Phill Gross and Bernhard
- Stockman. Around fifty people attended. The meeting was a joint
- session between ORAD and FARNET people.
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- Presentation of the Intercontinental Engineering and Planning Group
- (IEPG). Geoff Huston, co-Chair of IEPG, gave an overview of the current
- IEPG work. The IEPG meet in Santa Fe the week before IETF. Major topics
- of interest for the IEPG group were:
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- o Interactions between network regions.
- o Protocol infrastructure.
- o Multi-lingual applications.
- o Network minimal service levels.
- o Global traffic flows.
- o Information services.
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- There is the need to define operation tools to the vendors. For example
- there is a need to make the SNMP displays used today a little more
- meaningful and a lot more helpful to use in the long run. A working
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- group will be initiated, probably at the next IETF, that will define
- recommendations for the operational folks to give to vendors, to help
- them design better interfaces.
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- Operational Statistics (opstat).
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- OPSTAT met during two session with around thirty participants chaired by
- Bernhard Stockman.
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- The main topic was a simplified version of earlier documents describing
- the gathering, storage and presentation of statistical data. The major
- time was spend on discussing the storage format and polling periods.
- Prior to this there had been a discussion on 5-15 minutes polling
- periods. It was concluded that one single polling period could not be
- recommended. The polling period has to be dependent on the type of
- polling being performed so the meeting defined a set of polling periods
- for different situations. The intention is to have the simplified
- version ready for Internet Draft during December 1991.
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- BGP Deployment and Applications (bgpdepl).
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- A BOF on BGP usage with around thirty participants, chaired by Jessica
- Yu. The reason for this was to investigate the need and interest of
- forming an IETF working group around this concept. Topics that were
- treated:
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- o The need for an IETF working group to facilitate for
- inter-operability test and to act as a forum for knowledge
- transfer.
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- o A review of today BGP implementation and usage.
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- o Presentation by cisco on current implementations and future plans.
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- o Discussion around the NSFnet T3 and T1 BGP implementations.
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- o A review of midlevel networks currently using BGP.
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