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- Internet Area
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- Director(s):
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- o Philip Almquist: almquist@jessica.stanford.edu
- o Noel Chiappa: jnc@ptt.lcs.mit.edu
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- Area Summary reported by Greg Vaudreuil /CNRI
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- There were four Internet Area working groups and two Birds of a Feather
- sessions during this IETF meeting.
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- Dynamic Configuration of Network Links BOF (DCNL)
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- This BOF has been rather long lived. The intent was to receive feedback
- on a mechanism developed by Cray Research to dynamically set up T3
- connections between supercomputer centers. This mechanism has been
- published as an Experimental RFC. This meeting was spent explaining the
- basic mechanisms.
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- Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group (DHC)
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- The Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group is nearly finished there
- long-livedeffort to allow automatic configuration of Internet Hosts. A
- presentation was made to the Plenary session and the protocol is
- expected to be submitted to the IESG as a Proposed Standard shortly.
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- IP over Appletalk Working Group (APPLEIP)
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- The Appletalk Working Group discussed many AppleTalk/Internet
- Interworking Issues. The Group is finishing a document describing SNMP
- over Appletalk for environments where UDP is not available. Work is
- beginning on a Appletalk over X.25, using the mechanisms being reworked
- for IP over X.25. Appletalk over PPP is in the final stages, and was
- discussed both in this Working Group and in the Point to Point Working
- Group. New work is beginning on a protocol for distributing routing
- information, currently called the AA protocol.
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- IP over ATM Working Group (ATM)
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- The IP over ATM Working Group sprung from a BOF held in Santa Fe. This
- Working Group session was very well attended with 97 people! The Group
- discussed issued of coordination their work with other standard bodies
- responsible for defining and profiling ATM. The Group discussed several
- encapsulation proposals, both the use of the currently defined
- adaptation layers, and a new proposal to put IP or other network
- protocols directly over ATM.
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- IP over HIPPI BOF (HIPPI)
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- This BOF was called to review a proposal for IP over HIPPI. An Internet
- Draft has been available. Some minor twiddling was suggested and a new
- document is expected.
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- Point to Point Protocol Extensions Working Group (PPPEXT)
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- The PPPEXT has submitted the bulk of their work to the IESG and IAB. At
- this meeting the Group focused on defining and narrowing the scope of a
- PPP MIB. Work is continuing on defining a LCP for IPX, a LCP for OSI,
- and a LCP for DECnet.
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