Dear db-wg community, Please find below the problem definition for the (upcoming) NWI-12 item as we have discussed it and envisioned it for this project. Problem definition: Back on October 2019 during the RIPE 79 meeting in Rotterdam, we discussed about the need to move forward with a next generation of NRTM service. Upon the completion of NWI-9 and the lifting of the legal restrictions, we can now proceed to design the new solution. As we discussed preciously, the version 3 of the current NRTM solution is not suitable anymore for network operations on 2020. A summary of the reasons are: -Is a Telnet based protocol, thus: • No keep alive mechanism is adopted, • It provides plain text/unencrypted transport of data -The bootstrap process is not always trivial and sometimes is slow -Long time synchronisation is complicated and users need to re-synchronise after a couple of weeks. -No well specified protocol (There is just a PDF doc that describes it) For all the reasons above (and reasons that we might have not think about yet but you are welcome to share), it becomes a necessity for the community to proceed with a new implementation that will be easily adopted by modern tools and last for the years to come. I hope the above text is sufficient for the db-wg chairs to kick off the process and the community to share its feedback. Best regards, Stavros Konstantaras | Sr. Network Engineer | AMS-IX M +31 (0) 620 89 51 04 | T +31 20 305 8999 ams-ix.net