Assignment of OSI NSAP Addresses (osinsap)

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Chair(s):
     Richard Colella, colella@osi3.ncsl.nist.gov
Mailing Lists:
     General Discussion:  ietf-osi-nsap@osi3.ncsl.nist.gov
     To Subscribe:  ietf-osi-nsap-request@osi3.ncsl.nist.gov
Description of Working Group:

     The OSI NSAP Guidelines Working Group will develop guidelines
     for NSAP assignment and administration (AKA, the care and
     feeding of your NSAPs).
     Assuming use of existing NSAP address standards, there are two
     questions facing an administration:

       o Do I want to be an administrative authority for allocating
         NSAPs?
         -  how do I become an administrative authority?
              *what organizations should expect to be an
               ``administrative authority'' in the GOSIP version
               2.0 address structure?
              *where do I go to become an administrative authority?
         -  what are the administrative responsibilities involved?

              *defining and implementing assignment procedures?
              *maintaining the register of NSAP assignments.
              *what are the advantages/disadvantages of being an
               administrative authority?
       o Whether NSAPS are allocated from my own or some other
         administrative authority, what are the technical
         implications of allocating the substructure of NSAPs?
         -  what should be routing domains?
              *implications of being a separate routing domain (how
               it will affect routes, optimality of routes,
               firewalls and information hiding).
              *organizing routing domains by geography versus by
               organization versus by network topology....
         -  within any routing domain, how should areas be
            configured?
              *(same implications as above).


Goals and Milestones:


Dec 1990      Produce a paper describing guidelines for the acquisition
              and administration of NSAP addresses in the Internet.

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Dec 1990      Have the paper published as an RFC.
Dec 1990      Have the paper incorporated, in whole or in part, into
              the ``GOSIP User Guide'' and the FNC OSI Planning Group
              document.



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