Dear working group, AD, Warren asked us as chairs to assess whether revising the GROW charter was warrented, and if so propose an update. We've come up with the below.
It is entirely possible we've overlooked something, we'd love your feedback on the below charter, goals & milestones. Please share on-list or off-list with [email protected] Kind regards, Job & Chris GROW chairs Charter for GROW Working Group =============================== The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is fundamental to the operation of the Internet. In recent years, occurrences of BGP related operational issues have increased, and while overall understanding of the default-free routing system has improved, there is still a long and growing list of concerns. Among these are routing table growth rates, interaction of interior and exterior routing protocols, dynamic properties of the routing system, and the effects of routing policy on both the size and dynamic nature of the routing table. In addition, new and innovative uses of BGP, such as the use of BGP as a signaling protocol for some types of Virtual Private Networks, have created new and unexpected operational issues. The purpose of the GROW is to consider the operational problems associated with the IPv4 and IPv6 global routing systems, including but not limited to routing table growth, the effects of the interactions between interior and exterior routing protocols, and the effect of address allocation policies and practices on the global routing system. Finally, where appropriate, the GROW documents the operational aspects of measurement, monitoring, policy, security, and VPN infrastructures, and safe default behavior of implementations. GROW will also advise various working groups, specifically the IDR and SIDROPS working groups, with respect to whether it is addressing the relevant operational and routing security needs of networks, and where appropriate, suggest course corrections or intervene. Finally, operational requirements developed in GROW can also be used by any new working group charged with standardizing a next generation inter-domain routing protocol. Goals ===== * Provide stewardship and maintenance for the BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) * Document Best Current Practises for operations of the Internet routing system. * Analyze aspects of supporting new applications, including extending existing routing protocols and creating new ones. This includes risk, interference and application fit. * Document the operational aspects of securing the Internet routing system, and provide recommendations to other WGs. * Provide documentation to assist in avoiding clear malpractice in the global routing system. Milestones ========== Jan 2020 - "Support for Local RIB in BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP)" to IESG Feb 2020 - "BMP Peer Up Message Namespace" to IESG Apr 2020 - "Revision to Registration Procedures for Multiple BMP Registries" to IESG. Jul 2020 - “Document negative consequences of de-aggregating received routes for traffic engineering purposes” - to IESG Nov 2020 - "TLV support for BMP Route Monitoring and Peer Down Messages" to IESG. Jan 2021 - “A BCP on using IRR and RPKI data to improve filtering of BGP peering sessions” to IESG or via “Evolving Documents” _______________________________________________ GROW mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/grow
