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Introducing the Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG)



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Network Working Group                                          G. Huston
Request for Comments: 1690                                        AARNet
Category: Informational                                      August 1994


                  Introducing the Internet Engineering
                       and Planning Group (IEPG)

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
   this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

   This memo introduces the IEPG to the Internet Community.  The IEPG is
   an Internet Service Operators' forum, intended to assist Service
   Operators to coordinate in operational aspects of managing Internet
   services.

1.  Charter of the Internet Engineering and Planning Group

   Domain of Activity

      The Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG) is a group
      principally comprised of Internet Service Operators.

   Goal

      The common objective of the group is to promote a technically
      coordinated operational environment of the Global Internet.

   Activities

      The activities of the IEPG will be within the following areas:

     -  To facilitate the operations and management of Global Internet
        services,

     -  To promote the introduction of new Internet services within the
        Global Internet, and

     -  Liaison with related Internet Operations groups and liaison with
        technical development groups.

      Explicitly the IEPG is not a group which will conduct activities
      of a technical developmental nature.



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