Internet Area

Director(s):


   o Philip Almquist:  almquist@jessica.stanford.edu
   o Noel Chiappa:  jnc@ptt.lcs.mit.edu


Area Summary reported by Philip Almquist and Noel Chiappa

Four Internet Area working groups met in Santa Fe.  The Internet Area
also hosted two Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions.


   o IP over Appletalk (appleip)
     The Apple-IP Working Group revised their AURP (IP over Appletalk)
     and MacIP (Appletalk over IP) drafts.  The group expects that both
     of these documents are now finished, but will allow a final comment
     period before submitting them for standardization.  SNMP over
     Appletalk is ready to be submitted for standardization.  Work
     continues on Appletalk over PPP. Appletalk MIB enhancements are on
     hold pending further implementation experience.
   o Multi-Media Bridging (mmb)
     The Multi-Media Bridge Working Group has been working on a
     replacement for RFC1042 (IP over 802).  This work is intended to
     better handle the peculiarities of 802.5 yet remain
     backwards-compatible with RFC1042.  The group also continues to
     consider the problems of bridging dissimilar networks.
   o Router Requirements (rreq)
     The Router Requirements Working Group revised and approved a
     Forwarding Table MIB document and made some minor revisions to the
     Router Requirements draft.  The group's Chair gave a plenary
     presentation on the Router Requirements draft in anticipation of
     its imminent completion.  The group held a joint session with the
     IDPR Working Group to ensure that the output of the two groups will
     be consistent.  For similar reasons, some members of the group
     attended the BGP Working Group's discussions of route leaking
     between OSPF and BGP.
   o Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions (pppext)
     The Working Group decided, based on implementation experience, that
     some changes to the protocol were needed.  In particular, they
     revised the definitions of the Link Quality Monitoring and IP
     Address Negotiation facilities.  The group also did some work on
     their PPP Authentication draft.
   o IP over Asynchronous Transfer Mode BOF (atm)
     A BOF Chaired by Bob Hinden met to determine whether sufficient
     interest in ATM networks existed to justify the formation of an IP
     over ATM Working Group.  The answer seemed to be a resounding yes.
   o Dynamic Creation of Network Links BOF (dncl)
     Another BOF, Chaired by Andy Nicholson, met to discuss experiments
     at Cray Research in ``Dynamic Creation of Network Links''
     (basically, using switched T3 services to add Internet paths on
     demand).  This BOF has met before, and will probably become a

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