Dear all, please find below a document produced by Bernhard Stockman as background material for the proposed EIA WG. See you all in Amsterdam, Rob +--- Start of included message from: boss@sunet.se ----- | | | Here is the draft version of the EIA charter as discussed | out in nowhere in California. | | Regards, | | Bernhard. | | =============================================================== | | European Internet Architecture (EIA) WG | | | | Introduction | | During the course of Internet based networks in Europe an intensive | developments has been observered. The number of connected hosts has | increased exponential from around 30000 in October 1990 to 450000 at | the latest count in August 1993. (See RIPE DNS Host Count Reports). | Together with these massive increase in Internet connected hosts | comes a corresponding increase in the number and size of Internet | regional, national and international networks within Europe. | | As a result of this growth a need for coordination of networking | between Internet networks in Europe was early observed which was one | of the main reasons for the formation of the RIPE organization and | the installation of the RIPE NCC. An important outcome was the | specification of a RIPE database today containing information of | various aspects of the European Internets. One aspect of this | database was the ability to describe routing policies via a | dedicated routing database. (The actual format of this database is | described in the ripe-81 document). | | The need for routing stability has been seen as one of the most | important aspects of today Internet networking and several efforts | are today ongoing aiming to define and implement means and methods | to guarantee routing stability. In Europe this has been provided | via the RIPE routing database in conjunction with the European Route | Server implementation. This is today fully covered within the PRIDE | project managed by the RIPE NCC. (See the project specification for | the PRIDE project for further details). | | Although the today routing technology offers a variety of tools for | different requirements based on technical and political needs there | are certainly limitation to what this technology can provide. For | this reason there is a need to further investigate interconnectivity | and topology developments within Europe and between Europe and the | Global Internet with the ambition of provide recommendations for the | maintenance and improvement of the European routing stability. | | As a first step towards an open and fully interconnected European | Internet the European Internet Architecture WGs aims at an initial | review of possible developments within Europe and by this produce | document(s) describing the observed possible paths that can be taken | and the consequences for the European Internet connectivity. | | As this effort concentrates on the European part of the Internet it | is natural that it takes the form of a RIPE WG. However, as some | aspects in this effort will have to do with the European Internet | connectivity towards the Global Internet it is also seen as | necessary that part of this work is done in close collaboration with | the Global Internet engineering and operations especially as | represented by IEPG. | | Goals and Milestones: | | September 1993 | First review of charter, definition level of ambition. Drafting of | the main topics to be covered | | January 1993 | Fist draft ready to be discussed and further improved. | | May 1994 | Final version ready to be submitted to RIPE and other interested | organizations. | +--- End of included message from: boss@sunet.se -----