The session is intended for anyone responsible for updating and implementing routing policies of an ISP, including NOC personnel and technical management personnel who need to understand the process of publishing routing policy. The tutorial will discuss:

• Publishing routing policy in the Internet Routing Registry (IRR).
• Expressing routing policies in the IRR using the Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL), RFC-2622.
• Generating router configurations from policies stored in the IRR, using the Internet Routing Registry Toolset

Specific topics include:

1. RPSL objects
2. Contact information objects (person, role)
3. Specifying routing policy
   • aut-num object
   • route-set object
   • as-set object
4. Filter set, peering set and router set objects
5. Inet-rtr object
6. Advanced features of RPSL
7. Internet Routing Registry Tool Set
8. References

About the Presenter
Ambrose Magee worked for the RIPE Network Coordination Centre Database Group from 1996 to 2001. While there, he wrote software and provided user support for Versions 2 and 3 of the RIPE Whois Database Server. He has presented tutorials on RPSL at RIPE meetings, at the Network Training Workshop preceeding the INET-2000 meeting in Japan, and at APNIC-12 in Taipei.

Currently Ambrose works for the Ericsson Global Expertise Centre in Dublin as a Network Design Consultant in the Service Networks and IP Engineering Unit of the Network Consulting and Managed Services Department.