The IESG has received a request from the Interface to the Routing System WG (i2rs) to consider the following document: - 'Interface to the Routing System Problem Statement' <draft-ietf-i2rs-problem-statement-09.txt> as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-02-10. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Traditionally, routing systems have implemented routing and signaling (e.g. MPLS) to control traffic forwarding in a network. Route computation has been controlled by relatively static policies that define link cost, route cost, or import and export routing policies. With the advent of highly dynamic data center networking, on-demand WAN services, dynamic policy-driven traffic steering and service chaining, the need for real-time security threat responsiveness via traffic control, and a paradigm of separating policy-based decision- making from the router itself, the need has emerged to more dynamically manage and program routing systems in order to control routing information and traffic paths and to extract network topology information, traffic statistics, and other network analytics from routing systems. This document proposes meeting this need via an Interface to the Routing System (I2RS). The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-i2rs-problem-statement/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-i2rs-problem-statement/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
