Working Group Name: Interfaces to the Routing System (I2RS)   IETF Area: Routing Area   Chair(s): TBD Routing Area Director(s): Adrian Farrel Routing Area Advisor: Adrian Farrel Operations Area Advisor: TBD   Mailing Lists: General Discussion: i2rs@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i2rs Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/i2rs/current/maillist.html   Description of Working Group:   A routing system is all or part of a routing network such as an interface, a collection of interfaces, a router, or a collection of routers. Interfaces to the Routing System (I2RS) facilitate real-time or event driven interaction with the routing system. These allow information, policies, and operational parameters to be injected into and retrieved (as read or notification) from the routing system while retaining data consistency and coherency across the routers and routing infrastructure, and between multiple interactions with the routing system. The I2RS working group works to develop a framework and architecture that will enable specific use cases, and lead to an understanding of the informational models and requirements for encodings and protocols. Small and well-scoped use cases are critical to constrain the scope of the work and achieve sufficient focus for the working group to deliver successfully. Initial work within the working group will be limited to within a single administrative domain. The working group is chartered to work on the following items:   - Architecture and framework for I2RS including considerations of policy and security   - Tightly scoped key use cases for operational use of I2RS. These use cases will include at least: o Interactions with the RIB o Association of routing policies with routing state o The ability to extract information about topology from the network. Injection and creation of topology will not be considered as an initial work item. - Other use cases may be adopted by the working group only after milestones have been added to the charter page.   - Abstract information models consistent with the use cases   - Requirements for I2RS protocols and encoding languages   - An analysis of existing IETF and other protocols and encoding languages against the requirements.   The working group is not currently chartered to develop protocols, encoding languages, or data models. The objective of this work effort is to arrive at common standards for these items, but these items are dependent on the progress of the topics listed above. Work for these items will be conducted in this working group only after a re-charter, and/or may be carried out in another working group with specific responsibility for the protocol or encoding language. Goals and Milestones:   : Request publication of an Informational document defining the problem statement : Request publication of an Informational document defining the architecture framework : Request publication of an Informational document defining general RIB-based use cases : Request publication of an Informational document defining policy-related use cases : Request publication of an Informational document defining topology use cases : Request publication of an Informational document defining the protocol requirements : Request publication of an Informational document defining encoding language requirements : Request publication of a Standards Track document defining a general information model : Request publication of a Standards Track document defining an information model for RIB- based use cases : Request publication of a Standards Track document defining an information model for policy-related use cases : Request publication of a Standards Track document defining an information model for topology use cases : Request publication of an Informational document providing an analysis of existing IETF and other protocols and encoding languages against the requirements : Consider re-chartering