Ptomaine – Goals/Charter
To provide a clear definition of the problems facing Internet Routing Scaling today. This includes routing table size and route processing load.
To provide a taxonomy to describe prefix information for peer review.
To collate measurements of routing table scaling data and publish a reference list.
To discuss and document methods of filtering/aggregating prefix information and to discuss and document what support from protocols or vendor knobs or policy guidelines for allocations to RIRs might be helpful in doing this.
To determine the long and short term effects of filtering/aggregating prefixes to reduce router resource consumption.
To develop methods of controlling policy information propagation in order to limit the need for propagation of prefix sub-aggregates.