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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



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