Dear European Networkers, At the previous RIPE meeting it was decided to host the European Engineering and Planning Group (EEPG) as a working group within RIPE. Find below information on the EEPG terms of reference and the installed mailing list. EEPG will meet for the first time at the January RIPE meeting and an agenda will be sent out during first half of January. If you have suggestions for the agenda please fell free to propose such items to the EEPG mailing list. One item that certainly will be on the agenda is the coming D-GIX implementation. A Happy New Year to You All, Bernhard Stockman EEPG chair. ===================================================================== TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR EUROPEAN ENGINEERING AND PLANNING GROUP (EEPG) Bernhard Stockman December 27, 1993 The European Engineering and Planning Group is the platform for the engineering and deployment planning of the European part of the Internet. The Internet shall here be seen in a broader sense not just networks based on the TCP/IP protocol suite. EEPG will be active in the area of operational planning and engineering among various network service providers. EEPG will work in close liaison with the Intercontinental Enginering and Planning Group (IEPG) and bring attention to IEPG key activities as relevant within the European networking environment. EEPG can thus be seen as the European branch of the IEPG and European participation in the IEPG will be drawn from EEPG. EEPG is open for anyone but is mainly intended for operational planning and engineering among network service providers. RIPE, being the organization for coordination of European network services, is the adequate framework for the EEPG. EEPG will thus have the form of a RIPE Working Group and meet in conjunction with general RIPE meetings, currently three times a year. With the recent development and growth of the global network environment and the foreseen problems in maintaining an ubiquitous and homogeneous global network infrastructure the EEPG sees as its role to to identify and prioritize key activities of a technical nature which have a direct impact on the European and worldwide networking environment. For this reason EEPG will: - propose solutions for an optimized interconnectivity infrastrucutre among European network service providers with the ambition of securing maximal connectivity and flexibility in terms of engineering and management. With the increasing number of international network service providers, the maintenance and improvement of pan-European and global connectivity is an obvious challenge. - propose coordinated deployment of basic distributed network applications. The overall future of the global networking infrastructure is dependent on our common ability to evolve the collection of basic applications in the direction of enhanced quality and reliability of services. - propose practices and methods for efficient fault isolation and recovery as well as coordinated information dissemination in the area of network management. The focus here is to advocate the necessity of basic common operational methodologies and procedures within each network provider's operational domain to ensure that the user community can be serviced with a seamless end to end capability with appropriate mechanisms to ensure overall quality and reliability of the offered service. This area explicitly includes Network Information Center (NIC) and Network Operations Center (NOC) interaction. An EEPG work-plan will be maintained describing current areas of interest and priorities. The work-plan will from time to time be updated and documented to reflect changes of focus. ===================================================================== The EEPG mailing list The list has been created as <eepg-wg@ripe.net>. Current members from the signup sheet as below. People can subscribe and unsubscribe by sending mail to <majordomo@ripe.net>. Sending "help" in the message body will provide a help menu. The informational text and the current membership are listed below. The list is archived. Archive files are available via majordomo. ===============================================================
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Information about mailing list <eepg-wg@ripe.net>: This is the mailing list of the European Engineering and Planning Group which is currently being set up. The group is expected to be formally established at the RIPE meeting on 24-26 January 1994. The draft ToR can be found in the archive. Membership of this mailing list is open. This mailing list is archived since December 22nd 1993. For more information contact <ncc@ripe.net>. [Last updated Wed Dec 22 16:02:10 1993]
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Members of list 'eepg-wg': RIPE NCC <staff@ripe.net> # Antonio Blasco Bonito <bonito@nis.garr.it> Erik-Jan Bos <bos@surfnet.nl> Daniele Bovio <hi@frors12.bitnet> Graca Carvalho <graca@uminho.pt> Havard Eidnes <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no> Stefan Fassbender <stf@nis.easi.net> Peter Ford <peter@goshawk.lanl.gov> Elise Gerich <epg@merit.edu> Herluf Hansen <hha@tbit.dk> Hakan Hansson <hh@tip.net> Ian Harding <ih@chernikeeff.co.uk> Willi Huber <huber@sitch.ch> Avgust Jauk <jauk@ijs.si> Phil Jones <p.jones@jnt.ac.uk> Tomaz Kalin <kalin@rare.nl> Lars-Johan Liman <liman@sunet.se> Joseph Michl <michl@belwue.dbp.de> Svend Moeller Nielsen <smn@tbit.dk> Dave Morton <dave@ecrc.de> Arnold Nipper <nipper@xlink.net> Mike Norris <mnorris@dalkey.hea.ie> Petri Ojala <ojala@eu.net> Juergen Rauschenbach <rauschenbach@dfn.de> Joyce Reynolds <jkrey@isi.edu> Duncan Rogerson <D.Rogerson@noc.ulcc.ac.uk> Giuseppe Romano <romano@cnuce.cnr.it> Martijn Roos Lindgreen <martijn@nluug.nl> Miguel Sanz <miguel.a.sanz@iris-dcp.es> Don Stikvoort <stikvoort@surfnet.nl> Bernhard Stockman <boss@sunet.se> Juliana Tamorri <tamorri@nis.garr.it> Geza Turchanyi <h2064tur@ella.hu> Willem van der Scheun <scheun@sara.nl> Daniele Vannozzi <vannozzi@nis.garr.it> Marcel Wiget <wiget@chx400.switch.ch>
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