ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SWEDISH ROUTING LABORATORY AND THE STOCKHOLM D-GIX PILOT NODE We have herewith the pleasure to announce resources will be made available from the Swedish Technical Development Board for the establishment of a routing laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. Routing in the fast growing Internet is becoming a more and more complex affair. There is an urgent need to develop new routing techniques to cope with this growth. The Network Operation Center at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, has, by being intensively active in the area of building and maintaining large international networks such as NORDUnet and EBONE, achieved a recognized high degree of competence in advanced routing techniques. A first step towards a coordinated global routing was taken with the installation of the Global Internet eXchange (GIX) in Washington DC during 1991. Since first installed, the Washington DC GIX have faced an increased participation and traffic. The number and connectivity complexity of network service providers, especially with the commercialization of Internet services, has grown rapidly beyond the capability of one single interconnection point. As a result a distribution of the GIX concept has been discussed with the ambition to secure a stable, ubiquitous and homogeneous global network infrastructure. With the distribution of the GIX concept, regional interconnection points at various levels will be established creating the need for a layered framework of interconnections points or, with another name, Internet eXchange Facilities (IXF). Pieces of the IXF technology have, however, yet to be developed. The Swedish Routing Laboratory sees as one of its main tasks to participate in and stimulate the development of the IXF technology by the installation and maintenance of routing testbeds where routing concepts can be tested under controlled connectivity conditions. As a first step towards a fully developed IXF system the distributed GIX (D-GIX) has been proposed. The Swedish Routing Laboratory will, as one of its first activities, be in charge of the set up, management and evaluation of a D-GIX pilot node in Stockholm. Starting at January 1, 1994, a pilot D-GIX installation node in Stockholm will be made available for connections from interested European network service providers. The goal is to be able to handle production quality service already during January 1994, using an initial layered IXF structure. A second pilot node is under construction in Paris and will be announced when ready for connections. For more information on the GIX and D-GIX concepts please see the reference list at the bottom of this announcement. For those interested in participating in the Stockholm D-GIX pilot node, please contact any of the authors to this announcement. It shall here be noted this is a pilot with the intention of testing out necessary technology to be used in the coming distributed GIX/IXF framework. For this reason participation in this pilot requires close collaboration with the other GIX partners to secure a stable high quality service. On behalf of the Swedish Routing Laboratory, Peter Lothberg Email: roll@Stupi.se Phone: +46 8 790-6514 Fax: +46 8 241179 Royal Institute of Technology Drottning Kristinas Vag 37B S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden. Bernhard Stockman Email: boss@ebone.net Phone: +46 8 790-6519 Fax: +46 8 241179 Royal Institute of Technology Drottning Kristinas Vag 37B S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden. REFERENCES: 1. Proposal for Global Internet Connectivity Guy Almes, Peter Ford, and Peter Lothberg 12 June 1992 Anonymous ftp from nic.nordu.net in directory iepg. As ascii text or PostScript 2. Representation of IP Routing Policies in the RIPE Database Tony Bates, Jean-Michel Jouanigot, Daniel Karrenberg, Peter Lothberg, Marten Terpstra. (ripe-81). February, 1993 Anonymous ftp from ftp.ripe.net in directory ripe/docs/ripe-docs As ascii text or PostScript 3. Internet Routing in a Multi Provider, Multi Path Open Environment Tony Bates, Daniel Karrenberg, Peter Lothberg, Bernhard Stockman and Marten Terpstra. (ripe-82). Anonymous ftp from ftp.ripe.net in directory ripe/docs/ripe-docs As ascii text or PostScript 4. DRAFT Distributed GIX Specification Haavard Eidnes, November 24 1993. Anonymous ftp from nic.nordu.net in directory iepg. As PostScript only.