NSFNET Regional Techs Meeting For More Information, Call: Ken Latta klatta@merit.edu 313-936-2115 Pam Ciesla pam@merit.edu 313-936-3335 Overview A meeting of the NSFNET Regional Techs group will be held June 10th and 11th in Reston, Virginia at the headquarters of Sprint, International. A Preliminary Agenda and Arrangements Information follow. Preliminary Agenda I. Configuration of NSFNET for Aggregation (1 hour) Steve Richardson, Merit Dale Johnson, Merit This session will be a presentation of an update to the Internet Draft that was circulated at the Columbus IETF. It will cover the functions that the NSFNET will support and how midlevels can request configuration for the ENSS's in the backbone. The structure of the Merit Policy Routing Database for aggregation support will also be covered, as well as a proposed Aggregate Registry. II. GATED Support of CIDR (45 minutes) Dennis Ferguson, ANS Jeff Honig, Cornell This session will present the capabilities of gated with respect to CIDR. In particular the BGP implementation and status will be described, as well as the configuration capabilities of gated with BGP-4. III. Registration Issues for IP Aggregates (30 minutes) Elise Gerich, Merit Scott Williamson, InterNIC/NSI Mark Kosters, InterNIC/NSI The registration of aggregates into the various databases, e.g. Merit/NSFNET, RIPE and InterNIC, requires some changes to the way contact and organizational information is associated with network number/name. This discussion will cover the changes necessary to the databases, and it is hoped that the group will propose specific actions to resolve the questions including new management tools. IV. Proposals for Representation and Sharing of Routing Policy Information (45 minutes) Andrew Partan, AlterNet Enke Chen, Merit This session will include an overview of the paper, RIPE-81, which is a proposed database representation for inter-AS routing policy. It will also cover the paper on RPDL from Merit. The purpose of the session will be to summarize the recent discussions about the differences between the two approaches and how they might be combined. V. Route Server Deployment (30 minutes) Mark Knopper, Merit Andrew Partan, AlterNet Deployment of route servers at the MAE-East "experimental NAP" is taking place, and the status of this cooperative effort will be given in this session. The routing plan for each of the route servers will be covered, along with configuration issues. VI. NSFNET Policy Routing Database Implementation Status (30 minutes) Enke Chen, Merit Andy Adams, Merit Andy and Enke will present an overview of the Informix database system that is now being used to configure the backbone, and the tools that have been implemented to allow regional-techs to automate submission of network announcement change requests and to perform direct queries to the database in different ways. Implementation of new tools for Merit configuration staff have improved productivity tremendously. This will also be an opportunity to brainstorm on the types of tools that are needed to support route aggregation. VII. NSFNET Solicitation Status (30 minutes) Dan Jordt, NorthWestNet Now that the NSFNET solicitation has been released, many of the regionals have difficult choices to make. Many of the problems are common and this session will be an opportunity to discuss issues from the technical perspective. VIII. ANSNET Backbone Status Report (1 hour) Jordan Becker, ANS The T3 backbone status will be covered including recent and planned deployment of new software and hardware for the backbone routers. -- / 30 / --