OSI Survey for Regionals attached to the Internet

skh skh
Wed Feb 19 23:26:27 UTC 1992


Below is a survey on OSI usage in the Internet.  Could you take a 
moment and fill out this survey?  It may look long, but it
should only take a few minutes to fill out.  Your answers will
help the people working on OSI in the Internet plan  our
next work.   Thank you for your help!   Please send it in
as soon as possible.  We'd like to get all responses back within a 
week.


				Thank-you,

				Susan Hares
				IETF NOOP chair



					
 
 
 
 
 
  Survey on OSI in Your Network
 
  Purpose for Survey:
 
  The IETF Network OSI Operational Working Group wants to
  find out details on OSI use their is in the Internet.
  The results of the survey will be published as an FYI document
  for the Internet.   Any people answering the Survey will be
  sent electronic copies of the FYI document on the results of the
  survey.   As people beginning to use OSI on the Internet, the will be able
  to refer to this document to find out who supports the ISO CLNP
  layer across the Internet.
 
 
  Timeframe for Survey:
 
  Please return this survey by February 27th, 1992.  Results will be
  published as a paper for the NOOP group by March 7th, 1992.  Send
  responses to skh at merit.edu.
 
  Introduction to the Survey:
 
  Questions 1-6 are for those who route Connection Network Layer Packets (CLNP 
  ISO 8473) or DECNET Phase 5 traffic on their network.  Questions 7-8 are for
  those who do not yet route CLNP or DECNET Phase 5.
 
  1.) Do you  support the routing of Connection Network  Layer Protocol (CLNP (ISO
  8473)) packets on your network?
 
       If so,
 
       1.1) What number of routers do you have in your
            network?  How many of these routers pass
            CLNP packets?
 
       1.2) What router vendors do you use in your
            network?  What router vendors do you use
            in the routers that are passing CLNP packets?
 
       1.3) What type of intra-domain routing do you do within your
            network?  IS-IS?  Cisco IGRP based OSI?      static?
 
       1.4) What type of inter-domain routing do you do?
            Cisco poor-man's Inter-domain routing?
            static?
 
       1.5) Would you be interested in the new ISO Inter-Domain
            Routing Protocol (IDRP (ISO CD 10747)) when it
            becomes available?
 
       1.6) Do you consider the OSI service to be:
 
              Production - guaranteed delivery and
                           high level of service,
 
              Experimental - guaranteed delivery, but
                             service not at highest level
                             
              Prototype - A first offerings of CLNP which
                          is limited to a few sites, or
 
 
 
 
 
 
              Pilot -    For demonstrations and Pilot projects
                         only?
 
             Please select the category nearest to your service.
             You may include other comments to further qualify
             this service level.
 
 
 
       1.7) If you are running both IP and CLNP,
 
            What do you consider your IP service -
            Production, Experimental, Prototype, or
            Pilot?
 
       1.8) What amount of traffic do you pass per day,
            per week and per month?
 
 
 
  2.) Are you now routing DECNET Phase 5 traffic on your system?
 
       If you are routing DECNET Phase 5:
 
       a.) What type of routers are you using?
            (manufacturer and model?
       b.) How many routers do you have?
       c.) What type of hosts are sending traffic?
       d.) How many DECNET Phase 5 hosts do you have?
 
 
  3.) Do you currently attach one or more OSI vendor company to your network? 
  Do any of these companies send OSI traffic across
  the network?
 
       If so,
       3.1) How many OSI companies are attached to your
            network?  
       3.2) How many of these OSI companies send
            application data regularly?
       3.3) What are the companies attached to your network?
       3.4) What applications are these companies using?
            It would be helpful to list the applications
            by company if that is possible.
 
       3.5) Would any of these companies be interested
            in "Pilot" projects to try exchanging OSI
            applications with those people on the Internet.
 
  4.) Do you support OSI applications at your network site?
 
       If so,
 
       4.1) What applications do you support?
            Do you support:
 
                 X.500
                 X.400
                 FTAM
                 VT
                 Xwindows
                 SQL based applications
                 CMIP
 
 
 
 
 
                 (please answer yes or no to each applications)
 
                 others - please list with company
 
         4.2) For each of the applications you answered yes
                 to above please indicate:
 
                 a.) equipment the application runs on
                 b.) does it run over CLNP/TP4 stack or
                      TCP/IP stack
                 c.) what vendor supplies the software
                 d.) any comments on how easy it is to use
                 e.) Is your application based on ISODE?
                     If so what version of ISODE?
 
         4.3) Are you a part of a Pilot Project or testing
              group for this application?
 
         4.4) Would you be willing to be a part of a Pilot
              Project or testing group for this application?
 
 
 
 
 
         4.5) Do you have a set of routers or hosts which
              could form a "test bed" at your site?
 
 
         4.6) Would you be willing to allow this test bed
              (either a short term or long term basis)
              to join with other test beds at other 
              networks to test out new software in the
              Internet?
 
 
         4.6) Would you be willing to have a "test bed"
              at your site if additional funding for
              this was available?   Would you be willing
              on either a short term or long term basis
              to allow
 
  5.) Do you have any of the following network tools
      on your routers?
 
       a.) OSI ping (or echo function)
       b.) OSI traceroute
       c.) OSI table dump
 
       What routers have these functions?  How would
       you rate the User Interface to these network
       tools - poor, fair, good, or excellent?
 
  6.) Do you have any of the following network tools
      on your hosts?
 
       a.) OSI ping (or echo function)
       b.) OSI traceroute
       c.) OSI table dump
 
       What hosts have these functions?  How would
       you rate the User Interface to these network
       tools - poor, fair, good, or excellent?
 
 
  7.) If you do not support switching CLNP packets today,
      
        a.) Will you need to route DECNET Phase 5 
           in the future?
   
        b.) Will you route CLNP packets if 
            you had clients that required OSI service?
 
       c.) Will you route CLNP packets only when 
            IS-IS was supported on all your routers?
           (please indicate what types of routers
            you use in your network)
 
       d.) Will you need network tools (that supported an 
           osi ping, osi traceroute, and osi routing
           table dump) to support CLNP in your network? 
 
       e.) Will you require both clients and IS-IS supported on
           all your routers (b and c above) 
 
       f.) Will you require that you have OSI clients, IS-IS on all
            your routers, and OSI network tools (b, c and d above)
 
  Please answer yes or no to items a thru e.  Additional
  comments are also welcome.
 
 
  8.) If you do not currently use an OSI application at your
  site, please answer the following:
 
       8.1) Would you be interested in X.500? 
            In X.500 over TCP/IP?  In X.500
            over CLNP?
 
       8.2) Would you be interested in X.400?
            in X.400 over TCP/IP?  In X.400
            over CLNP?
 
       8.3) Would you be interested in FTAM over
            ISO Transport Class 4 (TP4) and CLNP?
 
       8.4) Would you be interested in FTAM over
            ISO transport Class 0 (TP0) and X.25?
 
       8.5) Would be interested in VT over TP and CLNP?
 
       8.6) Would you be interested in trying out
            TCP over CLNP?
 
       8.7) Would you be interested in trying out
            X-windows over CLNP?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 





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