Introducing the Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG)
A forum for Internet service operators to coordinate operations.
Huston, G., "Introducing the Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG)", RFC 1690, DOI 10.17487/RFC1690, August 1994, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1690>.
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Contents
Network Working Group G. Huston
Request for Comments: 1690 AARNet
Category: Informational August 1994
Introducing the Internet Engineering
and Planning Group (IEPG)
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This memo introduces the IEPG to the Internet Community. The IEPG is
an Internet Service Operators' forum, intended to assist Service
Operators to coordinate in operational aspects of managing Internet
services.
1. Charter of the Internet Engineering and Planning Group
Domain of Activity
The Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG) is a group
principally comprised of Internet Service Operators.
Goal
The common objective of the group is to promote a technically
coordinated operational environment of the Global Internet.
Activities
The activities of the IEPG will be within the following areas:
- To facilitate the operations and management of Global Internet
services,
- To promote the introduction of new Internet services within the
Global Internet, and
- Liaison with related Internet Operations groups and liaison with
technical development groups.
Explicitly the IEPG is not a group which will conduct activities
of a technical developmental nature.
Constituency
Membership of the IEPG shall be open. Any individual may subscribe
to the IEPG mailing list, and all meeting announcements, meeting
agenda, meetings and meeting reports shall be made openly
available.
Reporting
The IEPG will maintain an archive of material available using
World Wide Web (WWW) access tools. The location of this WWW
archive, and this charter will be disseminated to the Internet
community through an Informational RFC.
2. IEPG membership and IEPG mailing list
Membership of the IEPG is open. Any member of the Internet community
may join the IEPG mailing list. The mailing list is "iepg@iepg.org".
Anyone may join the list by subscribing to "iepg-request@iepg.org".
3. Archive of IEPG material
All IEPG material is archived at "http://iepg.org/iepg".
4. Security Considerations
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
5. Author's Address
Geoff Huston
Australian Academic and Research Network
GPO Box 1142
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia
Phone: +61 6 249 3385
Fax: +61 6 249 1369
EMail: Geoff.Huston@aarnet.edu.au
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§1The IEPG Forum
The Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG) is a forum for Internet Service Operators to coordinate on operational matters. Geoff Huston founded it to help service providers manage the Internet infrastructure at scale.
The IEPG is not a standards-making body and does not conduct technical development work. Instead, it focuses on the operational and practical aspects of running Internet services and keeping networks connected.
The IEPG is a club of network operators who get together to talk shop: what works, what is broken, and how to keep the Internet running.
§2Goals and Membership
The group's primary goal is to promote a technically coordinated operational environment of the global Internet. The IEPG carries out three main activities: facilitating operations and management of Internet services, promoting the introduction of new Internet services, and maintaining liaison with other operational and technical development groups.
Membership is open to any individual. Anyone can subscribe to the IEPG mailing list at iepg-request@iepg.org, and all meeting announcements, agendas, and meeting reports are made publicly available. There is no membership fee or approval process.
Anyone can join. The group helps run Internet services, brings new services online, and talks to other groups doing similar work.
§3Archive and Communications
The IEPG maintains an archive of all materials at http://iepg.org/iepg, accessible via the World Wide Web. This archive makes the group's work and discussions available to the entire Internet community. The mailing list address is iepg@iepg.org.
By maintaining public archives and open meeting materials, the IEPG ensures that operational knowledge and coordination decisions are transparent and available to all Internet operators, not just those who can attend in person.
All the notes and meeting recordings go on the web for anyone to read, so operators everywhere can see what others are doing.