Internet Info 1997 December/Internet_Info_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_December_1997.iso/ietf/92jul/st2-minutes-93jul.txt

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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Steve DeJarnett/IBM

Minutes of the Internet Stream Protocol V2 BOF (ST2)

The ST2 BOF met during the 1930-2200 session, opposite the Networking
Multimedia Applications BOF (MULTIAPP) and the Open IAB Meeting (among
others).  The overlap with MULTIAPP in particular, and the multiple
reschedulings of the BOF, may have limited the attendance, but in spite
of those problems there were still 27 attendees.


Presentations and Discussion

The BOF started with presentations on existing ST-II implementations.
Frank Hoffmann presented a description of the IBM ST-II implementation
in the Heidelberg Transport System (HeiTS). Lou Berger presented
information on BBN's work with ST-II in their T/20 router which is used
in the backbone of the ARPA Defense Simulation Internet (DSI). Lou also
spoke briefly about other work BBN was doing with ST-II. Luca Delgrossi
discussed work going on in the BERKOM project in Germany, which has
chosen ST-II as their network layer protocol for use in a multimedia
teleservices pilot.

After the presentations, discussion about interest in a working group to
revise and clarify the ST specification was started.  There was a great
deal of discussion during the BOF about the problems that are known with
ST-II as currently specified, including, but not limited to, the lack of
a formal definition of ST-II states and the problems associated with
efficiently supporting very large numbers of destinations in a single
connection.  Additional discussion focused around whether
standardization of ST was warranted at this time.  No clear consensus
was reached on this issue.  The discussion centered on whether now was
an appropriate time to standardize given work in other areas and the
possible emergence of other protocols which will deal with resource
reservation.

During the presentations on the various implementations, questions were
raised which mostly dealt with implementation details.  Those details
have been left out of this summary except as they relate to the proposed
mission of the working group.


Results

In the end, consensus was achieved on having a working group whose
purpose was to clarify the current ST protocol in order to correct
errors in the specification, and to make it easier to implement ST-II in
a manner which is likely to be interoperable with other ST-II

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implementations.  The future of that protocol, whether continuing as an
Experimental Protocol or moving forward as a Proposed Standard is still
open for discussion.  That discussion should be held at a later date
when the results of the working group are demonstrable.


Attendees

Lou Berger               [e-mail]
Stefan Braun             [e-mail]
Michael Brescia
James Davin              [e-mail]
Steve DeJarnett          [e-mail]
Luca Delgrossi           [e-mail]
Jeffrey Dunn             [e-mail]
Ed Ellesson              [e-mail]
Deborah Estrin           [e-mail]
Jill Foster              [e-mail]
Marcel Graf              [e-mail]
Ken Hayward              [e-mail]
Frank Hoffmann           [e-mail]
John Larson              [e-mail]
Susan Lin                [e-mail]
Cynthia Martin           [e-mail]
Zbigniew Opalka          [e-mail]
Jorg Ott                 [e-mail]
Michael Patton           [e-mail]
John Penners             [e-mail]
J. Mark Pullen           [e-mail]
Robert Reschly           [e-mail]
Kenneth Smith            [e-mail]
Fumio Teraoka            [e-mail]
Claudio Topolcic         [e-mail]
Werner Vogels            [e-mail]
Jost Weinmiller          [e-mail]



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