Internet Info 1997 December/Internet_Info_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_December_1997.iso/ietf/rreq/rreq-minutes-90july.txt

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Reported by Jim Forster/cisco

RREQ Minutes

The Router Requirements Working Group split their work into two
documents; Link Requirements and Router Requirements.  The group further
considered rewriting and consolodating the IP and ICMP specifications.
There was consensus that this was a good thing, but there were doubts as
to whether there was time or energy to do it.

The router requirements document was edited on a comprehensive full
pass.  Issues discusses included:


   o Whether a router should support a public SNMP session.  It was
     decided to pass this to the Interconnectivity Working Group.
   o The concept of minimum configuration was rejected for this
     document.  The vendor must make sure that when a router comes on
     line, it does not begin a routing function, without being correctly
     configured.  There needs to be a sanity check on certain
     parameters.
   o There was a discussion of routing preference order between routing
     protocols, such as IS-IS, and OSPF. The larger question was:
     Should we specify a routing entry preference?  How should a router
     use a forwarding table and how should it be ordered?  There was no
     consensus on this point.  The only thing nearly everyone agreed on
     was that internal routes ought be preferred over external routes,
     and that RIP is unsatisfactory.  Further, there must be a switch to
     determine which routing protocol is in charge.
   o Congestion control.  Note that choosing to drop the last packet on
     the queue is the worst possible choice via three different
     experiments.  The document will recommend that a router ought to
     have 2 * bandwidth delay product buffer space in every router along
     a path.  We need to note that a lot of the problem of congestion is
     poor site engineering.  Note that queue length ought not be allowed
     to rise too long.  One needs to go into congestion avoidance if
     this is occurring.  How one then throttles a host is still a
     problem.  We note that there is no benefit to source quench.


Attendees


Stephen Adams            decwrl::"adams@zeppo"
Nick Alfano              [e-mail]
Cathy Aronson            [e-mail]
Art Berggreen            [e-mail]
Chet Birger              [e-mail]
Larry Brandt             [e-mail]
Eric Brunner             [e-mail]

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Jeffrey Burgan           [e-mail]
Ross Callon              [e-mail]
Isaac Chan               [e-mail]
Farokh Deboo             [e-mail]
Steve Deering            [e-mail]
Robert Elz               [e-mail]
Tom Evans                [e-mail]
Jeffrey Fitzgerald       [e-mail]
James Forster            [e-mail]
Karen Frisa              [e-mail]
Vince Fuller             [e-mail]
Martin Gross             [e-mail]
Chris Gunner             [e-mail]
Peter Harrison           [e-mail]
Charles Hedrick          [e-mail]
Ruei-Hsin Hsiao          nac::hsiao
Ole Jacobsen             [e-mail]
Van Jacobson             [e-mail]
Michael Karels           [e-mail]
Paulina Knibbe           [e-mail]
Stev Knowles             [e-mail]
Alex Koifman             [e-mail]
Sam Lam
Gregory Lauer            [e-mail]
John Lekashman           [e-mail]
Solomon Liou             [e-mail]
Yoni Malachi             [e-mail]
Gary Malkin              [e-mail]
Milo Medin               [e-mail]
Judy Messing             [e-mail]
David Miller             [e-mail]
Brad Parker              [e-mail]
Craig Partridge          [e-mail]
Stephanie Price          cmcvax![e-mail]
Michael Reilly           [e-mail]
Steve Senum              [e-mail]
Jim Sheridan             [e-mail]
Deepinder Sidhu          [e-mail]
Frank Slaughter          [e-mail]
Frank Solensky           [e-mail]
Tony Staw                [e-mail]
Ken Stetten              [e-mail]
Bob Stewart              [e-mail]
Roxanne Streeter         [e-mail]
Gregory Vaudreuil        [e-mail]
Jonathan Wenocur         [e-mail]
Walter Wimer             [e-mail]
Robert Woodburn          [e-mail]
Allan Young              [e-mail]
Jessica Yu               [e-mail]



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