CIDR Deployment (cidrd) ----------------------- Charter Current status: active working group Chair(s): Jessica Yu Vince Fuller Operational Requirements Area Director(s) Scott Bradner Michael O'Dell Mailing lists: General Discussion:bgpd@merit.edu To Subscribe: bgpd-request@merit.edu Archive: merit.edu: ~/pub/bgpd-archive Description of Working Group: The CIDR Deployment Working Group (CIDRD) will be a forum for coordinating the deployment, engineering, and operation of classless routing protocols and procedures on the global Internet. This activity will include, but not be limited to: - deployment of CIDR addressing and routing in the global Internet. Will include coordination of deployment of new exterior routing protocols, such as BGP4, which support CIDR. - develop mechanisms and procedures for sharing operational information to aim the operation. - development of procedures, policies, and mechanisms to improve the utilization efficiency of the IPv4 address space. - work on longer-term strategies for hierarchical, CIDR-based addressing and routing. Examples include class-A subnetting and provider block sub-allocation along geographical/topological boundaries as is done for 193.0.0.0 and 194.0.0.0 in Europe. Initially, this working group will be simply the reincarnation of the BGP Deployment Working Group under a new name. Goals and Milestones: Ongoing Provide forum for discussion of initial CIDR/BGP4 deployment on the global Internet. Feb 94 Establish final charter, goals, and long-term group agenda Feb 94 Work on inter-provider coordination of routing in the CIDR environment. Apr 94 Publish initial guideline document on CIDR allocation procedures (work in progress) Apr 94 Publish guidelines for usage of variable-length subnetting Apr 94 Start work on document of iinter-provider routing coordination Apr 94 Begin work on document of aggregation guidelines Jul 94 Begin work on document for long-term CIDR use, including subnetting of class-As.