At the last IETF meeting in Prague, we spent our int-area open meeting time presenting on and providing open mic discussion for identifier/locater split solution design in general, as well as in specific reference to recent energy from the service provider community looking for fundamental routing scalability improvements.
Work on the routing and addressing problem is happening in several parallel efforts, including implementation improvements by vendors, review of operational practices, modest improvements to the BGP protocol, and more fundamental architectural changes either through new types of routing architectures or identifier-locator separation. Some of these activities fall clearly on one forum, whereas in others we've had more confusion where the work belongs. In particular, there is a lot of current identifier-locator and locator-locator separation effort in the Internet area, we held int-area, rtg-area, and plenary meetings in Prague, and the Routing Research Group (RRG) is now looking at new routing and addressing architectures. To avoid duplication of effort, the Internet ADs would like to recommend that for solving the routing scalability problem, the research and exploration phase needed before standardization work should continue in the RRG for now rather than in the IETF. Current id/loc and loc/loc work for mobility and multihoming in the int-area (such as HIP) will continue unabated, and we encourage participation in the discussion sponsored by the IAB and IRTF. When the RRG reaches a point where part or all of its effort requires engineering work, we are eager to create a new or recharter an existing working group for this via the normal IETF process. We will send another note later on how to best start such work in the IETF. Work does not have to come from the RRG alone, but we are not going to actively cultivate work in the int-area on this at this time. Given this, we will not be hosting an Interim meeting on this topic before Chicago. The RRG and IAB still may on their own accord, but the main activity that we are currently aware of is the RRG meeting in Chicago (Friday, July 27th). Jari Arkko Mark Townsley _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
