CIDR Deployment (cidrd)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     Vince Fuller <vaf@barrnet.net>
     Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
     Jessica Yu <jyy@merit.edu>
 
 Operational Requirements Area Director(s): 
     Scott Bradner  <sob@harvard.edu>
     Michael O'Dell  <mo@uunet.uu.net>
 
 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 will be a forum for
coordinating the deployment, engineering, and operation of classless
routing protocols and procedures in 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.                                                     

     Done 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 inter-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.                                                         


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.