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Reported by Mark Laubach/Hewlett-Packard

Minutes of the Whither ATM - An Update BOF (ATMINFO)


An information-only BOF was held on ATM technology and developments
since the Amsterdam IETF meeting.  Many people were appreciative that
the BOF was held.



Presentations


Bryan Lyles presented a summary of ANSI T1S1 activities towards defining
a new ATM Bearer Service called ``Class Y'' for variable bit-rate
traffic, i.e.  ``best effort.''  Various public ATM providers are
viewing this a boon as it is a different service than constant bit-rate
(CBR) traffic (voice) and can be tariffed differently.  T1S1 will be
working further to create an implementation independent definition.
When adopted in T1S1, it should make it into ITU-TSS and then be adopted
by the ATM Forum.  Bryan's closing said to ``tune in again in about six
months.''

Eric Hoffman gave a talk on behalf of Allison Mankin and Maryann Perez
on the problems of implementing ATM standards.  Naval Research
Laboratory (NRL) has recently released their Q.93B implementation called
VINCE into the public domain.  In addition, NRL will be implementing the
Classic IP and ARP over ATM model.  NRL feels the primary ``snag'' with
Q.93B lies in the complicated parsing, forced bitfield parsing for
rarely used elements, and spurious ordering rules.  They do have a
working version that is tracking ATM Forum's UNI 3.0 specification.
Ports are being done to support several switch architectures.

Mike Goguen gave a review of the work of the ATM Forum's Private NNI
Working Group.  The groups main work is NNI signaling, VC routing, and
Q.93B as the basis for the NNI signaling.  This working group just
started in July.  The November ATM Forum meeting will focus on
finalizing requirements and beginning a draft reference configuration.
Some key requirement areas to be agreed on:


   o Policy
   o To what extent in Phase 1
   o Hybrid private/public networks
   o Source routing versus hop-by-hop


The ATM Forum UNI 3.0 Specification is out and available.

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Attendees

Masuma Ahmed             mxa@mail.bellcore.com
Bart Berger              bart_berger@3com.com
Caralyn Brown            cbrown@wellfleet.com
Tracy Brown              tacox@mail.bellcore.com
Theodore Brunner         tob@thumper.bellcore.com
Ted Chang                tchang@atg.wiltel.com
Chris Chiotasso          chris@andr.ub.com
Blair Copland            copland@unt.edu
Kurt Dobbins             dobbins@ctron.com
Christopher Dorsey       dorsey@es.net
David Engel              david@ods.com
Dario Ercole             Dario.Ercole@cselt.stet.it
Michael Erlinger         mike@jarthur.claremont.edu
William Fardy            billf@frontier.com
Steve Feldman            feldman@mfsdatanet.com
Robert Fenoglio          fenoglio@vnet.ibm.com
Mark Garrett             mwg@faline.bellcore.com
Steve Garritano          steveg@kalpana.com
Robert Grow              bob@xlnt.com
Stuart Hale              stu_hale@vnet.ibm.com
Augusto Ham              ahamm@atg.wiltel.com
Daniel Hansen            danh@ngc.com
Juha Heinanen            juha.heinanen@datanet.tele.fi
Mike Holloway            mikeh@newbridge.com
Refael Horev             horev@lannet.com
Frank Kastenholz         kasten@ftp.com
Mark Kepke               mak@fc.hp.com
Cheryl Krupczak          cheryl@empiretech.com
Ted Kuo                  tik@ececho.ncsu.edu
Andrew Malis             malis@maelstrom.timeplex.com
Keith McCloghrie         kzm@hls.com
Evan McGinnis            bem@3com.com
Steven Onishi            sonishi@wellfleet.com
Zbigniew Opalka          zopalka@agile.com
David Perkins            dperkins@synoptics.com
Kenneth Rodemann         krr@qsun.att.com
Hal Sandick              sandick@vnet.ibm.com
Michael Scanlon          scanlon@ftp.com
Jean-Bernard Schmitt     jbs@vnet.ibm.com
Kanan Shah               kshah@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Satya Sharma             ssharma@chang.austin.ibm.com
Uttam Shikarpur          uttam@zk3.dec.com
Timon Sloane             timon@timonware.com
Kaj Tesink               kaj@cc.bellcore.com
Panos Tsigaridas         Tsigaridas@fokus.gmd.de
Thomas Walsh
Alice Wang               alice.wang@eng.sun.com
Honda Wu                 honda@nat.com



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