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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.
Huston