CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by John Veizades/Apple Computer

Minutes of the IP over AppleTalk Working Group (APPLEIP)

The meeting opened with discussion of the intended conclusion of the
Working Group.  The work of the Group will continue under the ANF. At
the conclusion of the meeting the Group decided to disband, but will
reactivate, if necessary, to complete the work currently on the
standards track.

MIB+

Four issues were brought up in regard to the MIB+.


   o Zone Name Changing
     Zone name changing will not be part of MIB+ and will be moved to a
     working group of the ANF for further study and work.

   o Per Port Counters
     Both per port counters and aggregate counters will be kept.  The
     per port counters can be queried by watching for changes in the
     aggregate counters.

   o Zone Name matching of Get, Get Next and Set
     Lexical comparison of Zone names can be an issue in MIB+
     implementations since the zone name equivalence comparison is
     different from the lexical order used in Get Next.  This will be
     elucidated in the MIB+ document.

   o Index of Zone Name
     Zone names will be used as the index into several tables.


The MIB+ will move forward and be submitted as an Internet-Draft by May
5th.  It will then be submitted to the IESG for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.

MacIP

The MacIP specification will be submitted as an Internet-Draft under the
control of the APPLEIP Working Group if it is submitted by May 5th.
After that date parties may submit the specification as an Informational
RFC.

ANF

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The ANF will take over all of the work that is currently done by the
APPLEIP Working Group.  The ANF is still in its formation phase but it
will try to have its first meeting at the MacTivity conference.

AFP MIB

The AFP MIB will soon be available on ftp.cayman.com.  An announcement
will be sent to the mailing list shortly.  This work will be done under
the ANF.

Other Issues

How does the work on IP next generation effect MacIP boxes?

Attendees

Jim Beers                Jim.Beers@cornell.edu
John Boatright           bryan_boatright@ksc.nasa.gov
Gregory Bruell           gob@wellfleet.com
Cyrus Chow               cchow@ames.arc.nasa.gov
David Dubois             dad@pacersoft.com
Karen Frisa              karen.frisa@andrew.cmu.edu
John Gawf                gawf@compatible.com
Gerd Holzhauer           holzhauer1@applelink.apple.com
Bob Morgan               morgan@networking.stanford.edu
Judy Nasar               jdnasar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Brad Parker              brad@fcr.com
Radia Perlman            perlman@dsmail.enet.dec.com
Sam Roberts              sroberts@farallon.com
Michael Safly            saf@tank1.msfc.nasa.gov
Bob Stewart              rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com
Wayne Tackabury          wayne@cayman.com
John Veizades            veizades@apple.com
Steven Waldbusser        waldbusser@andrew.cmu.edu
Jonathan Wenocur         jhw@shiva.com



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