CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Philip Almquist Minutes of the Router Requirements Working Group (RREQ) The Router Requirements Working Group met much more briefly than it had at previous IETF meetings. There were three primary activities: 1. Discussion and approval of a Forwarding Table MIBS. 2. Revision of the Router Requirements draft. 3. Coordination with other working groups. In addition, the Chair gave a lengthy plenary presentation on Router Requirements in anticipation of its becoming a Proposed Standard before the next IETF meeting in San Diego. Each of the three activities listed above is described in more detail below. The Chair would like to thank Frank Solensky for recording the decisions reached during the meeting. Forwarding Table MIB The Working Group discussed Fred Baker's Forwarding Table MIB proposal. One substantive flaw was found and fixed, and the revised version was deemed ready to be passed up to the IESG as a candidate for a Proposed Standard. The group hotely debated the question of whether the proposed MIB ought to handle routing of IP multicasts and, if so, what modifications to the MIB would be required. The range of conflicting views on these questions suggested that multicast routing will need to be better understood before appropriate MIB support can be standardized. The group felt that the Forwarding Table MIB was too valuable to be placed on hold indefinitely while multicast routing matures, but will revisit these issues before requesting that the MIB be advanced to Draft Standard status. Router Requirements Document The Working Group discussed a number of minor technical issues and requests for clarification. Most were disposed of with little debate. Probably the only notable decision was the one to lower the requirement level of MIBs other than MIB-II from MUSTs to SHOULDs, on the grounds that the number of MIBs which have been developed has reached the point where implementing all relevant MIBs may be becoming onerous. Coordination with Other Working Groups The Working Group held a joint meeting with the IDPR Working Group to try to ascertain whether there were inconsistencies between the 1 specifications the two groups are producing. The primary focus of the discussion was the implications of the IP-over-IP encapsulation used by IDPR (e.g., on ICMP error messages). There was also some discussion of the interactions between the IDPR protocol and other routing protocols. No particular inconsistencies between the work of the two groups were identified, but apparently both groups found the discussions interesting and informative. Although the Working Group did not hold an official joint meeting with the BGP Working Group, the RREQ Chair and some other RREQ Working Group members attended the BGP sessions at which route leaking between BGP and OSPF was discussed. The goal (or at least the goal of the RREQ Chair) was to try to achieve consistency between the BGP group's work and the parallel work on route leaking between arbitrary routing protocols that is being done in the RREQ group. Attendees Philip Almquist almquist@jessica.stanford.edu Fred Baker fbaker@emerald.acc.com Atul Bansal bansal@wile.nac.dec.com William Barns barns@gateway.mitre.org Art Berggreen art@acc.com William Biagi bbiagi@cos.com Rob Coltun rcoltun@ni.umd.edu Dave Cullerot cullerot@ctron.com John Damiano Kurt Dobbins dobbins@ctron.com Shawn Gallagher gallagher@quiver.enet.dec.com Jim Ghadbane jimgh@newbridge.com Chris Gunner gunner@osicwg.enet.dec.com Frank Heath heath@cmc.com Ronald Jacoby rj@sgi.com Satish Joshi sjoshi@synoptics.com Jean-Michael Jouanigot jimi@cernvax.cern.ch Michael Karels karels@cs.berkeley.edu Frank Kastenholz kasten@europa.clearpoint.com Manu Kaycee kaycee@ctron.com Yoav Kluger ykluger@fibhaifa.com Stev Knowles stev@ftp.com Ron Lau rlau@synoptics.com John Lekashman lekash@nas.nasa.gov Tony Li tli@cisco.com Gary Malkin gmalkin@ftp.com Mike Marcinkevicz mdm@csu.net April Merrill abmerri@tycho.ncsc.mil Donald Merritt don@brl.mil Dave Monachello dave@pluto.dss.com Dean Morris morris@marvin.dec.com Dennis Morris morrisd@imo-uvax.dca.mil John Moy jmoy@proteon.com Thomas Pusateri pusateri@cs.duke.edu Mark Schaefer schaefer@davidsys.com John Seligson johns@ultra.com 2 Harvey Shapiro shapiro@wnyose.nctsw.navy.mil Richard Smith smiddy@pluto.dss.com Frank Solensky solensky@clearpoint.com Michael St. Johns stjohns@umd5.umd.edu Brad Steinka brad@python.eng.microcom.com Iris Tal 437-3580@mcimail.com Sally Tarquinio sally@gateway.mitre.org William Townsend townsend@xylogics.com Yuan Wang natadm!ycw@uunet.uu.net Scott Wasson sgw@sgw.xyplex.com Walter Wimer walter.wimer@andrew.cmu.edu Cathy Wittbrodt cjw@nersc.gov Richard Woundy rwoundy@ibm.com John Ziegler ziegler@artel.com 3