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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Robert Hagens/University of Wisconsin
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- MINUTES
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- The meeting was convened by chairman Rob Hagens. An attendance list
- will be published with the Proceedings of the IETF.
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- The group (much smaller than the last meeting) began the meeting by
- discussing the sort of address structure required when X.400/MHS is
- introduced into the Internet. The group concluded that there is no need
- to design or define an interm/transition address structure. RFC
- 987/1138 defines an acceptable transition structure: the RFC-822 domain
- defined attribute. There was some discussion about the lack of
- widespread support for DDAs. It appears that most ADMD providers
- support DDAs in their MTAs, however there may be user agents that do not
- support the entry of DDAs. The general feeling was that this was a
- shortcoming of the specific user agents; it could be corrected. It
- should not effect the organization of the NREN X.400/MHS service.
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- After this, the group discussed the need for a PRMD authority for the
- NREN. Note: the group's definition of NREN is the US portion of the
- IP-connected Internet.
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- Several points were discussed:
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- o An NREN PRMD is a long term solution for certain organizations.
- o Organizations may "grow out" of the NREN PRMD and register
- elsewhere.
- o As X.400 software is deployed within the NREN, we need to organize
- a coherent MTS before chaos decends.
- o We must provide cheap and quick registration services for the NREN
- PRMD.
- o The NREN PRMD may negotiate with US ADMDs for international
- service. Such negotiations must be on the basis of originator
- keeps all revenue.
- o The NREN PRMD may relay traffic for other PRMDs
- o An NREN PRMD must provide a registration service as well as manage
- operational connectivity (i.e., routing).
- o The 'ole ADMD field question: there is a general desire to keep
- the ADMD field blank. Many ADMD providers require the ADMD field
- to contain the name of the ADMD. Should the NREN PRMD automatically
- fill in the ADMD field? One suggestion was that within the US, the
- ADMD field should be kept blank, but international traffic would
- have the ADMD field set as the message leaves the country. Some
- discussion of munging P1.originator vs. P2.originator ensued. Is
- that a protocol violation? How does it effect security? How does
- it effect a "reply"?
- o The question was raised as to whether the NREN could register
- itself as an ADMD. The answer was not known.
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