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- NOOP meeting 11-19-21 Evening Session 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
-
- Dan Blum - faithful note taker
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- Summary
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- The Network OSI Operations (NOOP) group convened at 1930 on
- 11/19/91. The group heard presentations from Richard Collela
- (NIST) and William Biagi (Corporation for Open Systems. After the
- presentations, Susan Hares (Chairperson) gave an IDRP tutorial.
- Ms. Hares then described the OSI activities at the November '91
- Interop, after which some general discussions were held.
-
- NIST
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- Richard Collela of NIST discussed NIST's OSI Routing Laboratory.
- The current focus of the laboratory is IS-IS routing software.
- The lab provides interoperability testing in an informal
- environment between participating vendors. There is as yet no
- formal conformance testing or OSINET-style publication of results.
- Participating vendors included DEC, Proteon, and 3COM.
-
- The lab was open beginning in August 1991 to assist with INTEROP
- preparations, and is tentatively scheduled to reopen in January of
- 1992.
-
- COS
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- William Biagi of COS provided backbround on his organization and
- discussed its plans for fostering OSI internetworking. Although
- COS was originally founded to promote OSI and ISDN, some members
- are beginning to look at the requirements for coexistence with
- TCP/IP. Most members are running proprietary networks that support
- niether OSI nor TCP/IP.
-
- COS operates the OSINET interoperability testing organization as a
- non-profit corporation. OSINT is linked to Accunet and Tymnet via
- X.25. The following plans are afoot:
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- o Expand OSINET to incorporate an Internet connection with
- some of the regional networks,
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- o Establish X.400 mail relays, possibly supporting TP0, TP4,
- and RFC 1006
-
- o Establish CLNS systems in each COS member organizations by
- the end of 1992
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- o Act as a repository for CCITT blue books and other
- documents
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- o Possible X windows over OSI
-
- o Other Internet-like services
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- IDRP Tutorial
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- Susan Hares discussed the IDRP design goals, protocol, and other
- features. She indicated that Mitre has an IDRP prototype
- implementation running today. Details of the presentations are
- available on the slides presented.
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- OSI At Interop
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- Susan Hares discussed the OSI network set up for the November 1991
- INTEROP demonstration.
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- The show featured worldwide connectivity (North America, Australia,
- Europe). Proteon, Wellfleet, Network Systems Ciscon, 3com, DEC
- participated. IS to IS was used in the booth. It was actually
- "stress tested" by physical outages, to which it reacted well.
-
- A great many practical lessons were learned. While network
- administrators and various regionals and various corporations were
- willing to install OSI routers, they did not enable CLNS on their
- production routers. While the multiprotocol routers claim to
- support both CLNP and IP, sometimes there are bugs when both are
- simultaneously active. A big stumbling block to installing CLNP
- on production routers in production networks is the lack of CLNP
- router security "filtering" capabilities.
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- Overall, however, the experience at INTEROP seems to indicate that
- critical mass in the product arena is at hand. What is urgently
- needed at this time is a user / application base to provide
- additional field testing of CLNP and associated protocols.
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