Dear Network Service Providers: As you know, Merit and ISI, with assistance from IBM, are teaming to provide the Routing Arbiter function. We intend to deploy Route Servers at each NAP location to interact with NSP's routers on the NAP. We have a number of questions regarding NSP's routing requirements on NAPs. We need to better understand your intentions as we prepare for the Route Server software design, hardware configuration, routing engineering and network management strategy at NAPs. We've prepared a list of questions below and would greatly appreciate your responses at your earliest convenience. We will consider your response confidential and will not circulate it beyond those working on the Merit/ISI/IBM team and NSF without your consent. Please send your response to ra-mgt@merit.edu. 1. Name of the network and the organization providing the service? 2. Contact information? a. Administrative contact: Name: E-mail address: Phone number: Fax number: b. Technical contact: Name: E-mail address: Phone number: Fax number: 3. Do you plan to connect your network to NAPs? Initially Future California Chicago Washington D.C. New York If the answer to 3) is yes, please continue: 4. What kind of interface do you prefer for connecting to the NAPs? a. ATM b. SMDS c. Frame Relay d. FDDI e. Ethernet f. Other(specify) 5. What access bandwidth are you planning to connect to NAP? a. 10 MB/s b. 100MB/s c. DS1 d. DS3 e. OC3 or above f. other(specify) 6. What NAP access mechanisms do you prefer? a. co-location b. remote c. other(specify) 7. Will your NAP-connected-router(s) peer with the Route Server(RS) provided by the RA? Yes No Initially: Future: 8. What kind of routers are you planning on using to connect to NAPs? Vendor: Model: 9. If the answer to 7) is yes, what routing protocol do you intend to use? Initially Future a. BGP4 b. IDRP c. Other(specify) 10. What protocol(s) will be desirable for a NAP to support? Initially Future a. IP b. CLNP c. Other(specify) 11. Would you be willing to provide the RA with SNMP read only access to your NAP- connected-router(s)? 12. Will you be using the Routing Registry provided by the RA to a. register your routing information (yes/no)? b. make use of the information (yes/no)?