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IESG Deliberations on Routing and Addressing
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Network Working Group P. Gross
Request for Comments: 1380 IESG Chair
P. Almquist
IESG Internet AD
November 1992
IESG Deliberations on Routing and Addressing
Status Of This Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is
unlimited.
Abstract
This memo summarizes issues surrounding the routing and addressing
scaling problems in the IP architecture, and it provides a brief
background of the ROAD group and related activities in the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF).
It also provides a preliminary report of the Internet Engineering
Steering Group (IESG) deliberations on how these routing and
addressing issues should be pursued in the Internet Architecture
Board (IAB)/IETF.
Acknowledgements
This note draws principally from two sources: the output from the
ROAD group, as reported at the San Diego IETF meeting, and on
numerous detailed discussions in the IESG following the San Diego
IETF meeting. Zheng Wang, Bob Hinden, Kent England, and Bob Smart
provided input for the "Criteria For Bigger Internet Addresses"
section below. Greg Vaudreuil prepared the final version of the
bibliography, based on previous bibliographies by Lyman Chapin and
bibliographies distributed on the Big-Internet mailing list.
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION.................................................. 2
2. ISSUES OF GROWTH AND EVOLUTION IN THE INTERNET............... 3
2.1 The Problems................................................ 3
2.2 Possible Solutions.......................................... 5
3. PREPARING FOR ACTION.......................................... 7
3.1 The IAB Architecture Retreats................................ 7
3.2 The Santa Fe IETF............................................ 7
3.3 The ROAD Group and beyond.................................... 8
Gross & Almquist