Hi Stavros Thanks for starting this off with a draft problem statement. As there has been a lot of interest in this recently we will initiate "NWI-12 NRTMv4". Ed can you set that up on the NWI web page?
We would welcome comments from other community members on this problem statement. cheers denis co-chair DB-WG On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 21:58, Stavros Konstantaras via db-wg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear db-wg community, > > Please find below the problem definition for the (upcoming) NWI-12 item as we > have discussed it and envisioned it for this project. > > > Problem definition: > > Back on October 2019 during the RIPE 79 meeting in Rotterdam, we discussed > about the need to move forward with a next generation of NRTM service. Upon > the completion of NWI-9 and the lifting of the legal restrictions, we can now > proceed to design the new solution. As we discussed preciously, the version 3 > of the current NRTM solution is not suitable anymore for network operations > on 2020. A summary of the reasons are: > > -Is a Telnet based protocol, thus: > • No keep alive mechanism is adopted, > • It provides plain text/unencrypted transport of data > > -The bootstrap process is not always trivial and sometimes is slow > -Long time synchronisation is complicated and users need to re-synchronise > after a couple of weeks. > -No well specified protocol (There is just a PDF doc that describes it) > > For all the reasons above (and reasons that we might have not think about yet > but you are welcome to share), it becomes a necessity for the community to > proceed with a new implementation that will be easily adopted by modern tools > and last for the years to come. > > > I hope the above text is sufficient for the db-wg chairs to kick off the > process and the community to share its feedback. > > > Best regards, > > Stavros Konstantaras | Sr. Network Engineer | AMS-IX > M +31 (0) 620 89 51 04 | T +31 20 305 8999 > ams-ix.net >
