[db-wg] Problem definition for new NWI (12?) - NRTM service

Hi Stavros

Thanks for starting this off with a draft problem statement. As there
has been a lot of interest in this recently we will initiate "NWI-12
NRTMv4". Ed can you set that up on the NWI web page?

We would welcome comments from other community members on this problem
statement.

cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 21:58, Stavros Konstantaras via db-wg
<db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
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> Dear db-wg community,
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> Please find below the problem definition for the (upcoming) NWI-12 item as we have discussed it and envisioned it for this project.
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> Problem definition:
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> Back on October 2019 during the RIPE 79 meeting in Rotterdam, we discussed about the  need to move forward with a next generation of NRTM service. Upon the completion of NWI-9 and the lifting of the legal restrictions, we can now proceed to design the new solution. As we discussed preciously, the version 3 of the current NRTM solution is not suitable anymore for network operations on 2020. A summary of the reasons are:
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> -Is a Telnet based protocol, thus:
> • No keep alive mechanism is adopted,
> • It provides plain text/unencrypted transport of data
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> -The bootstrap process is not always trivial and sometimes is slow
> -Long time synchronisation is complicated and users need to re-synchronise after a couple of weeks.
> -No well specified protocol (There is just a PDF doc that describes it)
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> For all the reasons above (and reasons that we might have not think about yet but you are welcome to share), it becomes a necessity for the community to proceed with a new implementation that will be easily adopted by modern tools and last for the years to come.
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> I hope the above text is sufficient for the db-wg chairs to kick off the process and the community to share its feedback.
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> Best regards,
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> Stavros Konstantaras | Sr. Network Engineer | AMS-IX
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