Technical Summary
As modern networks grow in scale and complexity, the need for rapid
and dynamic control increases. With scale, the need to automate even
the simplest operations is important, but even more critical is the
ability to quickly interact with more complex operations such as
policy-based controls.
In order to enable network applications to have access to and control
over information in the Internet's routing system, we need a publicly
documented interface specification. The interface needs to support
real-time, asynchronous interactions using data models and encodings
that are efficient and potentially different from those available
today. Furthermore, the interface must be tailored to support a
variety of use cases.
This document expands upon these statements of requirements to
provide a detailed problem statement for an Interface to the Routing
System (I2RS).
Working Group Summary
Consensus was complete in the working group after 2 year of review.
Document Quality
[Shepherd] Document is ready to ship, but there is one unused reference
RFC4292 which might link to Appendix A, suggest to add reference to
where it was referenced in this document.
Personnel
Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Qin Wu
Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard