NANOG Tutorial: Routing Coordination Through the IRR

NANOG attendees are invited to attend an in-depth tutorial on Internet Routing Coordination, to be presented by the USC Information Sciences Institute, Merit, and ANS during the June 1998 NANOG (www.nanog.org). The tutorial will be held from 1:00-4:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 7, at the Dearborn Hyatt Regency (near Detroit).

In the tutorial, we will introduce the Internet Routing Registry (IRR), explaining how to register and query routing policy objects. After a brief introduction to routing policies (policies as used in the Internet today and BGP mechanisms to implement those policies), we will discuss the new Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL), the IETF proposed standard language for specifying Internet routing policy. RPSL is currently being deployed by IRR participants and will replace RIPE-181, the current IRR routing policy specification language. RPSL provides substantial extensions to RIPE-181, making it possible to specify a much richer set of routing policies. After covering RPSL, we will present and demonstrate several IRR policy analysis tools, including RtConfig to configure routers, roe to reconcile route objects with actual routes on the Internet, and aoe to easily specify common policies.

Attendees should understand basic BGP operations, but need not be familiar with the IRR.

The tutorial is free to NANOG attendees, and advance registration is required. To register, send e-mail to Pam Ciesla (pam@merit.edu) with the words 'irr-tutorial' in the header. Hope you can join us!