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Operational Requirements Area
Directors
o Scott Bradner: sob@harvard.edu
o Mike O'Dell: mo@uunet.uu.net
Area Summary reported by Scott Bradner/Harvard and Mike O'Dell/UUNET
Meetings of six Operational Requirements Area working groups were held
during the IETF meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
Benchmarking Methodology Working Group (BMWG)
The BMWG Working Group met to initiate an IP Providers Metric effort
within the BMWG. Twenty-eight people attended. Guy Almes led the
session. During the session the group discussed:
o General criteria for metrics,
o Specific kinds of metrics that need to be defined and for which
tools need to be developed, and
o Examples of technical, operational, and non-technical issues that
would impact the usefulness of these metrics.
The preponderance of effort was focused on considering practical
measures of an IP `cloud' service that: (1) a user could measure from
the periphery of the cloud, and (2) a provider could also measure. The
hope is that this effort will result in a set of practical metrics and
methodologies for measuring them that will benefit both providers and
users and clarify their common understanding of the IP networks that
make up the Internet.
CIDR Deployment Working Group (CIDRD)
CIDRD appropriately met in the ``Weapons Room'' at Stockholm. The usual
statistics were presented. Of special note were figures which indicate
that the growth of the routing table is again quite rapid. Bill Manning
has been tracking the class A networks and has had considerable success
in getting some network numbers returned. Geert Jan de Groot presented
a paper on a clever mechanism for dealing with DNS when addresses are
allocated on non-octet boundaries. Yakov presented a slightly revised
RFC 1597. No document actions took place, but a Last Call for Address
Ownership has been issued. The BCP track was discussed, and folks were
advised to contact the IESG with their opinions.
Guidelines and Recommendations for Security Incident Processing
Working Group (GRIP)
GRIP met twice during the Stockholm IETF meeting. The first session was
used to discuss content for the incident response team document. The
group plans to have an Internet-Draft by 1 November. The second session
was spent discussing the outline for the vendor guidelines document.
Operational Statistics Working Group (OPSTAT)
The drafts `Revised Verions of 1404' and `Statistics Server' were
reviewed. These have both had their last call on the mailing list, they
will now be sent to the RFC Editor as Information RFCs. We have failed
to collect enough material on `experience with using SNMP for network
management' to produce a draft; this project has therefore been
abandoned. The working group has now completed its charter activities
and will close down.
Routing Policy System Working Group (RPS)
Cengiz Alaettinoglu presented the AS path expression extension to
RIPE-181. Capability of AS macro names in the AS path expressions and
making the interaction rule a recommendation instead of a requirement
were agreed. Cengiz Alaettinoglu presented RPSL policy terms and five
interaction rules between policy terms. The consensus was to go with
one of the last two interactions, that is either the specification order
rule or the combined rule. Craig Labovitz presented the RPSL dictionary
which provides the extensibility to the language. Some people thought
this was two steps ahead of today. Cengiz Alaettinoglu presented two
syntax alternatives for rpsl, one which is elegant and new but requires
a translation tool for RIPE-181 compatibility and another which is
RIPE-181 compatible but may make tool builders' job more difficult.
Daniel Karrenberg presented the short term and long term database
models. David Kessens and Cengiz Alaettinoglu proposed two long term
models, and it was agreed to go with the model that eliminated the
source attribute and achieved consistency via the authorized registry
idea based on the maintainer object.
RWhois Operational Development Working Group (RWHOIS)
The RWhois Operational Development Working Group met and discussed user
authentication, secondary server protocol development, schema
convergence, and deployment issues. On the authentication issue, it was
decided that the RWhois development effort should look at kerberos as
well as what comes out of the CAT Working Group. Suggestions were made
on the secondary server and parental notification that will then be
implemented. A very rough first draft was sent to RIPE to see if we can
come to some sort of agreement on schema differences. At the
conclusion, deployment plans were mentioned on how to replace the
existing Whois server with RWhois.