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- Editor's note: These minutes have not been edited.
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- CIDRD WG Minutes - Final Meeting (6/25/96)
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- Tony Li & Vince Fuller, Co-Chairs
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- Note: As the work of this group is now finished, this working group
- will conclude per agreement of the WG chairs and the OPS Area
- Directors.
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- o Agenda Bashing
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- o Document Status
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- Classless IN-ADDR (draft-ietf-cidrd-classless-inaddr-01.txt)
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- Document with minor edits underwent last call process and is awaiting
- publication as RFC (with BCP status).
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- Address Ownership (draft-ietf-cidrd-addr-ownership-07.txt)
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- Scott Bradner indicated that this was passed by the IESG for a
- publication as a Best Current Practices RFC.
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- Registry Guidelines (draft-hubbard-registry-guidelines-02.txt)
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- Scott Bradner indicated IESG has placed consideration of this draft on
- hold till the next IETF, and encouraged the WG to email their views on
- this document to the IESG.
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- o Statistics
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- Vince Fuller presented a graph of routing prefixes in the Internet
- (provided by Erik-Jan Bos of SURFnet) and the growth in the routing
- table appears linear. Several sharp downward spikes in the routing
- table appeared to correspond to IETF meetings.
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- Frank Solensky presented a graph of class B and C address space
- address assignment, and the extrapolated allocation curves have
- appeared to flattened out significantly. It was suggested that this was
- the result of stricter adherance to to standard address allocation
- policies by registries. In a followup note, Frank states that there's a
- risk that the curves could ramp upwards again in the future as the ISPs
- run out of the addresses they've been allocated; if and when that occurs
- is difficult to predict.
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- o Other Topics
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- Eventual depletion of AS numbers was raised as an issue; the BGP4
- protocol allows 2^16 worth of AS numbers. It was suggested that IDRP
- was the appropriate long-term solution, as it allows much longer
- autonomous system numbers.
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- Bill Manning presented a short review of some of the CIDRD working
- group activities, and noted that many were "policy" docs. Bill asked:
- "Should the IETF do policy documents?" Scott Bradner led a discussion
- of whether we need some group in the IETF which addresses such issues
- on an ongoing basis. Discussion continued to fill the available time slot,
- touching on topics such as the IESG's ability to set policies, other
- network provider forums which work on policy issues, and the
- possibility of creating an ongoing working group or maintaining an open
- meeting to handle operational policy issues. Some folks felt that it was
- important to have an active forum for customers, operators, and
- developers in one place in order to continue the interaction which has
- occured in CIDR. A show of hands reflected an overall weak interest in
- moving forward with this proposal at the current time.
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