Hi,
In today's meeting we decided to conclude this working group. Or at
least we will stop having regular meetings, as the next meeting would
have clashed with Euro-IX Forum anyway.
RATIONALE
We've already achieved most of what we set out to achieve. The remaining
things aren't showing much progress over the past year, and the number
of people in each meeting hasn't been very high either, so meeting every
6 weeks doesn't feel useful.
Let's have a look at our charter[1]:
> Define goals and targets of the working group:
>
> Raise awareness for RFC8950 for interconnection
> Raise awareness for interoperability issues
> Make vendors aware of bugs / improvement ideas
> Create recommendations for operators
> Migrate IXP related work to Euro-IX route server WG
[x] We have raised awareness.
[x] We've been able to get vendors to fix bugs and a few vendors have
even implemented stuff based on our work.
[v] We now have a few IXPs that run RFC8950 capable route servers, and
we have config examples for a bunch of platforms.
[x] Whatever IXP work still needs to be done, can be done at the route
server WG. We've already given presentations there.
I also noticed that our working group isn't even listed on the Euro-IX
website, so what the hell...
FUTURE
We'll keep this mailing list around. We'll keep the mattermost
channel[2] around as well. If anything new comes up, we can use these
communication channels to talk about it. If it's significant enough, we
can start having meetings again as well.
The Github repo[1] will stay available, and me and Andre will probably
accept pull requests if anyone has something to contribute.
ACTION POINTS
There are still a few outstanding action points, like I will keep
working on an opportunistic implementation on the TREX route servers,
and Andre is working with Huawei to verify their RFC8950 peering
implementation, which is due to be released in late 2027.
Some of these will result in updates on the github repo.
In conclusion, it was nice to work with everybody, and I'm pretty proud
of what we managed to achieve, despite all the odds against us. And see
you around!
Kindest Regards,
[1] https://github.com/euro-ix/rfc8950-ixp
[2] https://mattermost.nog.fi/euro-ix-forum/channels/rfc8950-wg
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Aleksi Suhonen / TREX Regional Exchanges Oy
You say "potato", I say "closest-exit."
