CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Scott Brim/Cornell University

AGENDA

Report on Europe by Mats Brunell Introduction to TEWG by Scott Brim
Decisions on initial action items

MINUTES

RIPE connects to 13,000 IP hosts and 95 organizations in Europe.  RIPE
agreement with RARE last week removes political obsticals to IP in
Europe.  RIPE is only a coordination activity; not a service provider.

They need a European 'root server'.

They are setting up databases at KTH, CWI, and INRIA.

Four Task Forces

   o Connectivity and Routing
   o Network Management and Operations
   o Domain Name Systems
   o Formal Coordination

Four Hubs

   o NORDUnet; KTH in Stockholm
   o EUnet:  CWI in Amsterdam
   o CERN in Switzerland
   o INRIA

Trans-Atlantic Links

T1 from Ithaca, NY to CERN due in spring.  Will connect directly into
NSFNET. 56kb/s from JvNC to NORDUnet 56kb/s from SURAnet to CWI 9.6kb/s
from NYSERnet to Karlsruhe 56kb/s from JvNC to INRIA



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Introduction to TEWG by Scott Brim

There are a number of groups engineering interconnectivity among
components of the Internet (e.g., the FRICC Engineering Planning Group,
the FARnet Technical Committee, and groups involved with geographic
areas such as California or the northeast).  TEWG will not try to
replace these groups as a single forum where all such decisions should
be made; on the contrary it will depend on their work, since there is
far too much to do in one group or mailing list.  Instead it will serve
as the point of coordination for all of *them* inasmuch as they affect
one another.

TEWG will serve as a clearinghouse for interconnectivity issues which
cannot be handled in any more specialized group, for example
interactions between private and government-funded nets.  Another
example is international connections.  We are about to get our first
Internet loop around the world, involving federally-funded general
infrastructure nets, federally-funded mission-oriented nets, commercial
internets, and mixed private and public internets -- and at least three
countries.  TEWG will act as a forum for coordinating such situations.

TEWG will be both reactive and proactive in dealing with these problems.
We will also gather and share knowledge in the form of RFCs.

Discussion

Discussion centered around what work the group should be doing and what
needed to be done soon.

Action Items, to be done before next meeting:

   o Explore interactions between VMNET logical topology and Internet
     topology.  -- Scott Brim
   o Write CSnet plans for using multiple connections to NSFNET. -- Dan
     Long
   o Write requirements for useful database on inter-AS connectivity
     (initial step before taking a survey).  Start collecting sample
     maps, tools, and data.  -- Paul Tsuchiya
   o Write CA*NET plans for using multiple connections.  -- Dennis
     Ferguson.
   o Start a generic routing policy paper for mid-level networks.  Will
     have at least two sections:  "General Principles" and "Rules of
     Thumb" (including things to watch out for when making changes) --
     Kent England, Dave O'Leary, Gene Hastings, Vince Fuller, and Matt
     Mathis
   o Explore match/mismatch of BGP with real inter-AS needs -- Guy Almes
     and Matt Mathis
   o Write an RFC on "What is an AS?" -- Guy Almes
   o Liaison with ORWG -- Paul Tsuchiya
   o Liaison with RIPE -- to be determined; Scott Brim will follow up
     with Phill Gross, RIPE Connectivity and Routing WG.


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ATTENDEES

    Almes, Guy                almes@rice.edu
    Birger, Chet              cbirger@bbn.com
    Brunell, Mats             mats.brunell@sics.se
    Burgan, Jeffrey           jeff@nsipo.nasa.gov
    Coltun, Rob               rcoltun@trantor.umd.edu
    England, Kent             kwe@bu.edu
    Ferguson, Dennis          dennis@gw.ccie.utoronto.ca
    Feridun, Metin            mferidun@bbn.com
    Fidler, Mike              ts0026@ohstvma.ircc.ohio-state.edu
    Fuller, Vince             fuller@jessica.stanford.edu
    Gerich, Elise             epg@merit.edu
    Hahn, Jack                hahn@umd5.umd.edu
    Hain, Tony                hain@nmfecc.arpa
    Hastings, Gene            hastings@psc.edu
    Hays, Ken                 hays@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
    Honig, Jeffrey            jch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
    Jordt, Dan                danj@cac.washington.edu
    Katz, Dave                dkatz@merit.edu
    Long, Dan                 long@bbn.com
    Mathis, Matt              mathis@pele.psc.edu
    Morris, Dennis            morrisd@imo-uvax.dca.mil
    O'Leary, Dave             oleary@umd5.umd.edu
    Oattes, Lee               oattes@utcs.utoronto.ca
    Pace, Donald              pace@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
    Piscitello, Dave          dave@sabre.bellcore.com
    Rekhter, Yakov            yakov@ibm.com
    Tsuchiya, Paul            tsuchiya@thumper.bellcore.com
    Veach, Ross               rrv@uiuc.edu
    Ward, Carol               cward@spot.colorado.edu
    Youssef, Mary             mary@ibm.com



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