CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Rob Coltun/RainbowBridge Communications

Minutes of the Open Shortest Path First IGP Working Group (OSPF)



Status Overview

The group discussed the status of the specification and of
implementations.  The new version of the specification is now a Draft
Standard.  There are several implementations of the new specification
available.  In the next round of OSPF interoperability there will be
some testing of backward compatibility issues.

The COS testing lab is coming along.  There will be a round of testing
this month that will repeat some of tests for the vendors that weren't
at the last round.  Early next year there will be a week of OSPF stress
testing.



OSPF Scaling Issues - ``Ringing It Out At The Next Level''

The group reviewed a list of implementation issues that have started to
appear as it starts to scale OSPF to large networks.  This list will be
used in part as a basis for the next round of testing at COS.

Fred Baker mentioned that ACC has one network running close to 200
routers in the same area with no stress on the routers.



On-Demand Circuit Proposal

We reviewed John Moy's on-demand circuit proposal.  The major issue is
the lack of backward compatibility.  A few suggestions were made on how
to make it compatible with existing implementations.



NSSA Implementation and Status

So far there is one implementation that will be released within the next
few months in several products.  The draft has been submitted to become
a Proposed Standard.



MIB Changes and Status

Many excuses were given for the delay of the MIB being republished
(mostly by Rob Coltun).  The MIB has been updated to support NSSA and
MOSPF. The group now has to do the SNMPV2 upgrades.


Attendees

Anders Baardsgaard       anders@cc.uit.no
Fred Baker               fbaker@acc.com
Nutan Behki              nebhki@newbridge.com
Henry Clark              henryc@oar.net
Rob Coltun               rcoltun@ni.umd.edu
Tom Easterday            tom@cic.net
Dennis Ferguson          dennis@ans.net
Vince Fuller             vaf@barrnet.net
John Gawf                gawf@compatible.com
Vincent Gebes            vgebes@sys.attjens.co.jp
Kathryn Hill             khill@newbridge.com
Robert Hinden            hinden@eng.sun.com
Kathy Huber              khuber@wellfleet.com
Jan-Olof Jemnemo         jan-olof.jemnemo@farsta.trab.se
Akira Kato               kato@wide.ad.jp
Hiroshi Kawazoe          kawazoe@trl.ibm.co.jp
Charley Kline            cvk@uiuc.edu
John Krawczyk            jkrawczy@wellfleet.com
Robin Littlefield        robin@wellfleet.com
Thang Lu                 tlu@mcimail.com
Dennis Morris            morris@altair.disa.mil
Zbigniew Opalka          zopalka@agile.com
Benny Rodrig             brodrig@rnd-gate.rad.co.il
Paul Serice              serice@cos.com
Tae Song                 tae@novell.com
George Swallow           gswallow@bbn.com
Thomas Walsh             tomw@kalpana.com