Hi. Here is a more realistic version of the agenda including proposed session times. Mark Merit/NSFNET Regional-Techs Meeting October 4-5, 1993 Ann Arbor, Michigan Preliminary Agenda (version 1.0) Monday October 4 8:30am Registration, Coffee, Gathering 9:00 Shared Whois Project (SWIP) Plan - Mark Knopper This project has been underway for a while, but after a lot of discussion we now have a project plan which is nearing agreement between RIPE, InterNIC and Merit. The plan essentially specifies that the registries "synchronize" their data such that all information related to the same network object is the same, following a timeline of next April for synchronization. We'd like to hear the comments of other networks before we finalize the plan and publicize it further. Our document will be sent to the regional-techs list before the meeting. 9:45 CoREN Planning Status - Vince Fuller Some preliminary activities are in progress among the CoREN technical staff, and Vince can give a very brief overview of who is in the group and its status. 10:00 NSFNET/NREN Solicitation Status - Peter Ford Discussion of the solicitation and what we know about the transition to the new environment. 10:30 Break 10:45 Report from RIPE Meeting - Elise Gerich Elise will give a report on the recent RIPE meeting in Amsterdam. 11:15 CLNP Registration (Sue Hares) RIPE has been working on registration of NSAP addresses, and Merit is designing a database representation in order to configure routers to support IDRP. Sue will give a status report of these activities. 12:00 -- Lunch (provided by Merit) -- 1:15-5:00 or ? Status of CIDR Deployment This session will focus on the components of work left to do in order to deploy CIDR. Some of the following are presentations with question/answer sessions and others are brief reports. 1:30 ANS GateD support - Dennis Ferguson 2:15 Merit PRDB support - Dale Johnson 2:30 Router vendor support and interoperability testing (ANS,vendors) 3:00 Break 3:15 CIDR Analysis - Jessica Yu This topic is a followup of discussion at the last IETF, to look at how effective we think CIDR will be in conserving address space and making IPv4 last longer as a viable protocol. We will attempt to gather ideas from anyone who has done such analysis and present them at this session for discussion. 4:15 Open Issues for CIDR Deployment - group discussion ------------------- Tuesday Oct 5 8:30 Coffee, Gathering 9:00 Registration issues for network providers - Mark This will follow up on our discussion from the June meeting too see if there are further thoughts on how to handle provider/customer ownership, and register CIDR "holes". This will include a discussion on how to use the "aggregate registry" that has been proposed for CIDR implementation and coordination. 9:45 Routing issues for carrier selection - John Scudder John will present the ideas in Yakov Rekhter's internet-draft, "Selecting an Indirect Provider". 10:30 Future of Regional-Techs Group - Mark Knopper/Peter Ford/Andrew Partan Though this forum is primarily to discuss NSFNET-related matters, it has also served well as a general discussion forum for US Internet network providers. It is clear that this function should preserved and even broadened, though Merit's management with NSFNET will eventually draw to a close (see session III above). This session will focus on several ideas that have been proposed on how to keep the Regional-Techs forum alive in some form to continue discussion and cooperation among providers. 11:15 ANS Backbone Update - Jordan Becker Jordan will give a status report on current status and planned changes on the ANS backbone.