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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- The working group met for 3 half-day sessions. The first two were
- editing sessions for the architecture draft paper that will be out this
- month. The third was planned as an open informational session, but the
- open steering group meeting was taking place at the same time and took
- away our audience.
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- The agenda of the editing session was the last section of the
- architecture paper: defining the first step in an evolution path to
- implementing the entire protocol.
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- For the first phase, we chose a simplified virtual gateway protocol in
- which only two border gateways participate. We discussed the policy
- gateway to policy gateway protocol which runs among policy gateways
- inside an Administrative Domain. It was felt that this is an essential
- protocol for a first phase implementation. The mechanism for
- disseminating data, including electing a policy gateway spokesman,
- determining when data should be sent, and the mechanisms for limiting
- the extent of its flow, were also determined to be essential. A route
- query would allow experimentation with policy routes and validation
- without actually implementing the automated part of policy validation,
- etc. Finally, we discussed a mixed environment, when source routes
- could be installed at 'tack' points, while the gateways in-between are
- doing routing as usual.
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- ATTENDEES
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- Marianne Lepp
- Michael Little
- Lixia Zhang
- Noel Chiappa
- Martha Steenstrup
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