As per Relevance of the word national, we have this rfc below:
Network Working Group R.
Request for Comments: 1673
Category: Informational August 1994
Electric Power Research Institute Comments on
Status of this
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution
this memo is unlimited
This document was submitted to the IETF IPng area in response to
1550. Publication of this document does not imply acceptance by
IPng area of any ideas expressed within. Comments should
submitted to the big-internet@munnari.oz.au mailing list
Executive
The question of the future of the Internet protocol (IP) is an
of national if not international concern. It is critical to
building of a National Information Infrastructure, comparable to
adoption of basic standards for the industrial era such as railways
highways and electricity
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is a non-
organization, with 700 voluntary utility members, managing
technical research and development program for the electric
industry to improve power production, distribution and use.
electric power industry is a major user of computing
communications and is fully committed to open systems
While the industry is today a heavy user of the Internet
Suite (IPS) it is following a long term strategy based
international standards developed by ISO and CCITT and
standards developed by the IEEE, ANSI and other standards bodies
employ formal review and voting procedures
This strategy is based on a survey of needs in all aspects of
electrical power supply enterprise. It concluded that these
are met more effectively by the current suite of OSI protocols
international standards under development. Therefore, EPRI
the Utility Communications Architecture (UCA) specification
communications and the Database Access Integrated
specification for data exchange both based on the OSI model
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international standards
These specifications have been incorporated into the
Government Open Systems Specification (IGOSS). They are
favorable response and application by the industry and its
as well as the support of the natural gas and waterworks industries
The issues facing the Internet community concerning growth and
address and routing limitations of IP in particular, provide an
opportunity for creating the national uniform information
superhighway. This is critical to the NII Agenda and the
proposal that will achieve this goal is one that is acceptable
both private and public sector viewpoints with both a national and
international perspective
EPRI also believes it is critically important that new
need to be achieved by convergence of efforts to develop
standards. Security, directory services, network management, and
ability to support real-time applications are four examples of
new convergent standards efforts are required
Just as society could not in the past accept multiple standards
the gauge of the nation's railways, we can no longer accept
standards for information transport
Engineering
1. Mandatory Requirement
Inter networking must evolve to provide an industrial
computing and communications environment for multiple uses
globally connected network resources. Specifically the
transport must provide high integrity support for upper
industrial OSI applications including but not limited to MMS
TP. Use of interface layers such as RFC 1006 is not
except as a transition strategy
2. Basic Requirements
-
The addressing scheme must have essentially an unlimited
space to encompass an arbitrarily large number of
objects. Specifically it must solve the fundamental
of 32 bit formats, a format for 20 octets and above is
suitable
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- Routing table
Network addressing must achieve significant economy in
database size with very large networks
- Support for the existing
The existing internetworking paradigm and existing OSI and
applications are to be supported
3. Key Engineering Considerations - A pragmatic solution
- Available
The solution must be available now using mature,
agreed standards and off-the-shelf implementations for hosts
routers. The solution must leverage existing investments
standards development, deployment and experience while at
same time provide for all basic requirements
- Ease of
Any solution must provide an evolutionary transition path
an OSI
- IP dual network layer strategy
This must be achievable without modifications to
inter-domain routing protocols while providing the ability
support proprietary protocols such as IPX and Appletalk.
scheme must provide the ability to encompass other
schemes such as X.121 and E.164. Existing SNMP and CMIP
must be applicable and available. Internet domain names
to be retained
- Routing
This key objective requires features such as route aggregation
service selection, and low frequency host advertisements;
routing intelligence should not be required
- Flexible Efficient
Operational needs will need to be met in an economic
flexible manner. Addressing allocations can be
geographically based or based on carrier ID or both and will
administered by policy not network topology. Simplified
robust configurability is required which includes the ability
identify resources e.g., multi-homed hosts and applications
instead of interfaces
-
Dynamic addressing is required where hosts have the ability
learn their own network address with the minimum of
intervention
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Security
Security isses are not discussed in this memo
Author's
Ron
Member of Technical
Advanced IT
Electric Power Research
Palo Alto CA 94303
EMail: RSKELTON@msm.epri.
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