[9429] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: a "keeper of the Internet"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Morton)
Wed Jan 5 09:01:27 1994
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 14:57:23 +0100
From: Dave Morton <Dave.Morton@ecrc.de>
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com, lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com, yakov@watson.ibm.com
>>Currently that requires the use of *one* IXC. Yakov pointed out
>>that this is a political impossibility; yet it is a technical requirement
>>for proper IP routing.
>>
>>Now where does that leave us ?
>
>Logically it leaves us with the following two avenues to explore:
>
>(a) a possibility of deploying a single IXC that covers between 60-100
>different countries on several continents
>
>(b) the need to re-adjust our technical requirements to better fit
>the real world
>
>Rather than spending our energy trying to convince each other which of
>the avenues is the right one, let me suggest that we'll proceed according to
>our convictions and measure our accomplishments (success or failure)
>a year or two down the road.
>
>Yakov
>
>P.S. For the sake of completeness let me repeat what I said before:
> "I doubt the feasibility of "one and only one backbone" that
> covers more than 100 countries."
Folks, were have you been all the while, read this:
To: ripe@ripe.net
Cc: Peter Lothberg <roll@stupi.se>
>From: Bernhard Stockman <Bernhard.Stockman@sunet.se>
Subject: Announcement of the Stockholm D-GIX pilot node.
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 93 22:48:50 +0100
Sender: Bernhard.Stockman@sunet.se
Resent-From: RIPE NCC Staff <ncc@ripe.net>
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SWEDISH ROUTING LABORATORY
AND THE STOCKHOLM D-GIX PILOT NODE
We have herewith the pleasure to announce resources will be made
available from the Swedish Technical Development Board for the
establishment of a routing laboratory at the Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Routing in the fast growing Internet is becoming a more and more
complex affair. There is an urgent need to develop new routing
techniques to cope with this growth. The Network Operation Center
at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, has, by
being intensively active in the area of building and maintaining
large international networks such as NORDUnet and EBONE, achieved a
recognized high degree of competence in advanced routing techniques.
A first step towards a coordinated global routing was taken with the
installation of the Global Internet eXchange (GIX) in Washington DC
during 1991. Since first installed, the Washington DC GIX have faced
an increased participation and traffic. The number and connectivity
complexity of network service providers, especially with the
commercialization of Internet services, has grown rapidly beyond the
capability of one single interconnection point. As a result a
distribution of the GIX concept has been discussed with the ambition
to secure a stable, ubiquitous and homogeneous global network
infrastructure.
With the distribution of the GIX concept, regional interconnection
points at various levels will be established creating the need for a
layered framework of interconnections points or, with another name,
Internet eXchange Facilities (IXF). Pieces of the IXF technology
have, however, yet to be developed. The Swedish Routing Laboratory
sees as one of its main tasks to participate in and stimulate the
development of the IXF technology by the installation and
maintenance of routing testbeds where routing concepts can be tested
under controlled connectivity conditions.
As a first step towards a fully developed IXF system the distributed
GIX (D-GIX) has been proposed. The Swedish Routing Laboratory will,
as one of its first activities, be in charge of the set up,
management and evaluation of a D-GIX pilot node in Stockholm.
Starting at January 1, 1994, a pilot D-GIX installation node in
Stockholm will be made available for connections from interested
European network service providers. The goal is to be able to
handle production quality service already during January 1994, using
an initial layered IXF structure. A second pilot node is under
construction in Paris and will be announced when ready for
connections. For more information on the GIX and D-GIX concepts
please see the reference list at the bottom of this announcement.
For those interested in participating in the Stockholm D-GIX pilot
node, please contact any of the authors to this announcement.
It shall here be noted this is a pilot with the intention of testing
out necessary technology to be used in the coming distributed
GIX/IXF framework. For this reason participation in this pilot
requires close collaboration with the other GIX partners to secure a
stable high quality service.
On behalf of the Swedish Routing Laboratory,
Peter Lothberg
Email: roll@Stupi.se
Phone: +46 8 790-6514
Fax: +46 8 241179
Royal Institute of Technology
Drottning Kristinas Vag 37B
S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.
Bernhard Stockman
Email: boss@ebone.net
Phone: +46 8 790-6519
Fax: +46 8 241179
Royal Institute of Technology
Drottning Kristinas Vag 37B
S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.
REFERENCES:
1. Proposal for Global Internet Connectivity
Guy Almes, Peter Ford, and Peter Lothberg
12 June 1992
Anonymous ftp from nic.nordu.net in directory iepg.
As ascii text or PostScript
2. Representation of IP Routing Policies in the RIPE Database
Tony Bates, Jean-Michel Jouanigot, Daniel Karrenberg,
Peter Lothberg, Marten Terpstra. (ripe-81).
February, 1993
Anonymous ftp from ftp.ripe.net in directory ripe/docs/ripe-docs
As ascii text or PostScript
3. Internet Routing in a Multi Provider, Multi Path Open Environment
Tony Bates, Daniel Karrenberg, Peter Lothberg, Bernhard Stockman and
Marten Terpstra. (ripe-82).
Anonymous ftp from ftp.ripe.net in directory ripe/docs/ripe-docs
As ascii text or PostScript
4. DRAFT Distributed GIX Specification
Haavard Eidnes, November 24 1993.
Anonymous ftp from nic.nordu.net in directory iepg.
As PostScript only.
