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Internet Area
Director(s):
o Philip Almquist: almquist@jessica.stanford.edu
o Noel Chiappa: jnc@ptt.lcs.mit.edu
Area Summary reported by Philip Almquist and Noel Chiappa
Four Internet Area working groups met in Santa Fe. The Internet Area
also hosted two Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions.
o IP over Appletalk (appleip)
The Apple-IP Working Group revised their AURP (IP over Appletalk)
and MacIP (Appletalk over IP) drafts. The group expects that both
of these documents are now finished, but will allow a final comment
period before submitting them for standardization. SNMP over
Appletalk is ready to be submitted for standardization. Work
continues on Appletalk over PPP. Appletalk MIB enhancements are on
hold pending further implementation experience.
o Multi-Media Bridging (mmb)
The Multi-Media Bridge Working Group has been working on a
replacement for RFC1042 (IP over 802). This work is intended to
better handle the peculiarities of 802.5 yet remain
backwards-compatible with RFC1042. The group also continues to
consider the problems of bridging dissimilar networks.
o Router Requirements (rreq)
The Router Requirements Working Group revised and approved a
Forwarding Table MIB document and made some minor revisions to the
Router Requirements draft. The group's Chair gave a plenary
presentation on the Router Requirements draft in anticipation of
its imminent completion. The group held a joint session with the
IDPR Working Group to ensure that the output of the two groups will
be consistent. For similar reasons, some members of the group
attended the BGP Working Group's discussions of route leaking
between OSPF and BGP.
o Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions (pppext)
The Working Group decided, based on implementation experience, that
some changes to the protocol were needed. In particular, they
revised the definitions of the Link Quality Monitoring and IP
Address Negotiation facilities. The group also did some work on
their PPP Authentication draft.
o IP over Asynchronous Transfer Mode BOF (atm)
A BOF Chaired by Bob Hinden met to determine whether sufficient
interest in ATM networks existed to justify the formation of an IP
over ATM Working Group. The answer seemed to be a resounding yes.
o Dynamic Creation of Network Links BOF (dncl)
Another BOF, Chaired by Andy Nicholson, met to discuss experiments
at Cray Research in ``Dynamic Creation of Network Links''
(basically, using switched T3 services to add Internet paths on
demand). This BOF has met before, and will probably become a
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