CIDR Deployment (cidrd)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 1996-12-23

 Current Status: Concluded Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Vince Fuller  <vaf@valinor.barrnet.net>
     Tony Li  <tli@procket.com>

 Operational Requirements Area Director(s):
     Scott Bradner  <sob@harvard.edu>
     Michael O'Dell  <mo@uu.net>

 Operational Requirements Area Advisor:
     Scott Bradner  <sob@harvard.edu>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:cidrd@iepg.org
     To Subscribe:      cidrd-request@iepg.org
     Archive:           ftp://aarnet.edu.au/pub/mailing-lists/cidrd*

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:

   Done         Establish final charter, goals, and long-term group agenda. 

   MAR 94       Provide forum for discussion of initial CIDR/BGP4 
                deployment on the global Internet. 

   MAR 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       Start work on document of inter-provider routing 
                coordination. 

   APR 94       Begin work on document of aggregation guidelines. 

   APR 94       Publish guidelines for usage of variable-length subnetting. 

   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:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC1918BCP  FEB 96    Address Allocation for Private Internets 

RFC1917BCP  FEB 96    An Appeal to the Internet Community to Return Unused 
                       IP Networks (Prefixes) to the IANA 

RFC2008BCP  OCT 96    Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies 
                       for Internet Routing 

RFC2036 I    OCT 96    Observations on the use of Components of the Class A 
                       Address Space within the Internet