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Editor's Note: Minutes received 8/3

CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by Jack Drescher/MCNC and Ari Ollikainen/LLNL

Minutes of the Remote Conferencing BOF (REMCONF)

Two BOF sessions were held on Remote Conferencing as a follow-on to the
Teleconferencing Architecture BOFs held at the San Diego IETF in March.
A preparatory meeting was added to the schedule between the first and
second full BOFs.  Sixty one different people attended either one or
both BOF sessions.

The stated purpose of the BOF was to present/solicit feedback on the
first draft of the Remote Conferencing Architecture Outline/Structure,
which had been sent to list prior to the IETF. Copies were also handed
out prior to the first session.  Other purposes were to solicit other
major research efforts which might be relevant to the Remote
Conferencing Architecture and to develop ties with these efforts as
appropriate.

Full Session of July 13, 1992

A brief statement of continuity from previous BOF sessions was reviewed
along with the proposed Working Group Milestones.  It was noted that the
Group had not yet been able to achieve IESG approval as a Working Group.
The main issue is ``broadness of Charter''.

Yee-Hsiang Chang of MCNC presented the highlights of the first draft of
the Remote Conferencing Architecture Outline.  This architecture has a
strong dependence on, and proposes extensions to, the Connection Control
Protocol work being done at ISI. Among the points made during the
ensuing discussion were:


   o Detailed configuration definitions are a good subject for this
     Group to work on.

   o Conference Directory Services should be based on X.500.

   o We need to develop a working relationship with the Security Working
     Group.

   o Capability for the ``loosely controlled conference'' (similar to
     the IETF broadcasts done from Boston) needs to be added to today's
     CCP.

   o We need to define what conferencing function APIs will be needed.

   o A restatement that this architecture proposes distributed
     conference servers.


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   o There was a request to ``define the problem to be solved'' or
     ``what function is desired''?

   o There was a request to have a tutorial on CCP in the next session.

   o It was suggested that we investigate the SMPTE header being
     developed by video and motion picture engineers.


There was additional discussion on the proposed Working Group Charter
and the ``sharpening'' of the proposed Charter required to gain Working
Group status.  A a special ``prep for Wednesday'' session, involving a
smaller group, was scheduled on Tuesday evening, July 14.

Special Session of Tuesday, July 14

A group of twelve people came to agreement on a statement of desired
function and an approach to rewording of the proposed Working Group
objectives, both to be presented at the 7/15 full session.  A heavy
emphasis on connection management and interface detail as a deliverable
were the main discussion points on the revised Working Group objectives.
Eve Schooler of ISI agreed to produce charts and give the CCP tutorial
on 7/15, a repeat from the San Diego BOF. There was also consensus that
the Group should discuss the subject of Conference Session Dynamics as a
high priority item.

Full session of July 15, 1992

The statement of desired function was presented and seemed to be well
accepted as a first pass.  A marked up REMCONF Working Group Goals chart
was shown, with the changed emphasis highlighted.  A reminder point was
made that the ``Focus on'' chart notation means ``detailed
deliverable''.

The Connection Control Point tutorial was given.  A point was made that
other approaches to connection management, if available, should be
evaluated along with CCP.

A very brief discussion of the Touring Machine project at Bellcore,
(presented at the San Diego BOF) was held and a request was made to
include the description and API(new charts) in the minutes of the BOF.

Future of the Group

The organizational niche for the Remote Conferencing BOF has not been
decided.  Independently, we intend, at this time, to continue the
discussions on the additions to CCP and to come to the November IETF
with the first draft of the overall proposed Remote Conferencing
Architecture, as called for in the proposed Working Group milestones.
We would appreciate input from the Internet community on the referenced
outline that's available via FTP and future expansions to it that will


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be made available via announcement to [e-mail].

Attendees

Sam Ayers                [e-mail]
James Berry              [e-mail]
David Bolen              [e-mail]
Robert Braden            [e-mail]
Scott Brim               [e-mail]
Stephen Casner           [e-mail]
Yee-Hsiang Chang         [e-mail]
Andrew Cherenson         [e-mail]
Robert Clements          [e-mail]
Tom Coppeto              [e-mail]
Chas DiFatta             [e-mail]
Jack Drescher            [e-mail]
Hans Eriksson            [e-mail]
Roger Fajman             [e-mail]
Paul Fox                 [e-mail]
Osten Franberg           [e-mail]
Ron Frederick            [e-mail]
Jerry Friesen            [e-mail]
Robert Gilligan          [e-mail]
Simon Hackett            [e-mail]
Robert Hagens            [e-mail]
Russ Hobby               [e-mail]
J. Paul Holbrook         [e-mail]
Mark Hollinger           [e-mail]
Christian Huitema        [e-mail]
Scott Kaplan             [e-mail]
David Katinsky           [e-mail]
Nick Kawaguchi           [e-mail]
Peter Kirstein           [e-mail]
Jim Knowles              [e-mail]
Padma Krishnaswamy       [e-mail]
Joshua Littlefield       [e-mail]
E. Paul Love             [e-mail]
Carl Malamud             [e-mail]
Allison Mankin           [e-mail]
Kim Mayton               [e-mail]
Donald Merritt           [e-mail]
Paul Milazzo             [e-mail]
Robert Mines             [e-mail]
Donald Morris            [e-mail]
Ari Ollikainen           [e-mail]
Larry Palmer             [e-mail]
Bradley Rhoades          [e-mail]
Allan Rubens             [e-mail]
Eve Schooler             [e-mail]
Henry Sinnreich          [e-mail]
Louis Steinberg          [e-mail]
Scott Stein              [e-mail]
Sally Tarquinio          [e-mail]

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Mark Uhrmacher           [e-mail]
Andrew Veitch            [e-mail]
John Wagner              [e-mail]
Sandro Wallach           [e-mail]
Abel Weinrib             [e-mail]
Jeff Wong                [e-mail]
John Wroclawski          [e-mail]
Paul Zawada              [e-mail]



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