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- INTERIM_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by John Veizades/Apple
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- APPLEIP Minutes
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- Minutes of the InterOp '91 meeting of the Apple-IP IETF Working Group.
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- The meeting started with the following Agenda:
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- o MacIP
- o AURP
- o AppleTalk and SNMP
- o AppleTalk and PPP
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- The consensus of the Group was that the MacIP document should be
- supplemented with some of the comments made by Tom Evans in an appendix
- to the document as a set of implementers notes. The Group also felt
- that the specification is riddled with problems and that this
- specification should be worked on to provide a long term solution. The
- author was willing to do this if he is not chartered to work on the long
- term direction of this specification.
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- The MacIP document will be moved to the draft stage as soon as these
- changes are made.
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- The AURP discussion then began Alan Oppenheimer of Apple led this
- discussion. The discussion started with a description of the protocol
- changes between this document and the previous version of the document.
- The changes are as follows:
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- o Addition of Open-Req and Open-Rsp packets
- o Changes to zone-based packets
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- - Move into connection stream
- - Combined into one packet type
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- o Packet header changes
- o Changes to details of connection teardown
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- - Keep the one-way connections independent
- - Only reset tickle timer on AURP packets
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- o Calling out of transport as a separate layer ``AURP-Tr''
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- On the last subject there was heated debate on if this was the correct
- way to design the protocol and it was stated that this may tie the
- protocol to IP and not make it portable to other protocols. The
- following points were thought to be essential to allowing the protocol
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- to be accepted as an internet standard. The type of service required by
- the underlying media should be called out specifically. The transport
- should be separated from the rest of the protocol so that other
- transports could be used. A state diagram should be included in the
- document.
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- Some discussion on the ability of AURP to solve the problems of the
- mythical customer were held. Some real customers (Boeing and NASA)
- expressed their doubts as to the need of this functionality in their
- networks.
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- The state diagram of the AURP protocol will be specified and then the
- document will be put in the Internet Drafts directory.
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- The next topic was AppleTalk and PPP. A preliminary document specifying
- the use of SNMP over DDP was presented by Mike Ritter from Apple. This
- document is available on apple.com in the directory /pub/apple-ip. The
- AppleTalk MIB II document is also available there. These documents are
- also available on AppleLink in the Developer Support folder.
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- The final topic that was discussed was the start of work by this Group
- on the AppleTalk over PPP specification. Brad Parker has been working
- with others on a preliminary specification for this functionality and
- this will be available from him shortly. This specification supports
- much of the functionality that is available with the ARAP (Apple Remote
- Access Protocol) specification that is available through APDA. Brad is
- also working with the PPP Extensions Working Group to arrive at a
- specification for dial back and security on PPP links.
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- The next meeting will be held in conjunction with the IETF meeting in
- Sante Fe New Mexico Nov. 18-22, 1991.
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