Global Routing Operations BOF (grow)

Tuesday, March 18 at 1545-1645
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CHAIRS:	David Meyer <dmm@sprint.net>
	Vijay Gill <vijay@umbc.edu>

AGENDA:     

	Agenda Bashing                   5 minutes
        Review GROW Mission Statement    5 minutes
        PTOMAINE Update/Review          10 minutes
        GROW Scope Discussion           15 minutes
         Potential active drafts:
         draft-turk-bgp-dos-04.txt ?
         draft-gill-btsh-01.txt    ?
         draft-hardie-bounded-longest-match-04.txt
         Other?
        Candidate Charter               15 minutes
        Next Steps                      10 minutes
         
      
        Full Description:
        
        The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is fundamental to the
        operation of the Internet. In recent years, the occurrence
        of BGP related operational issues has 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,
        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
        applications such as VPN, have created new and unexpected
        operational issues.
        
        The purpose of the Global Routing Operations WG (GROW) is
        continue and expand on the original charter of the
        PTOMAINE WG. In particular, the purpose of GROW is to
        consider and measure the problem of routing table growth,
        and where appropriate, to document the operational
        aspects of measurement, policy, security, and VPN
        infrastructures.