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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Russ Hobby/UC Davis
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- MINUTES
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- The PPP WG met on October 31 and November 1 at the IETF meeting at the
- University of Hawaii. This was the last meeting of the working group,
- however, further work on PPP will be done by a new working group to
- define extensions to PPP such as new options and the use of other
- protocols on PPP.
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- During video conferences following the Stanford meeting the PPP document
- was split into two separate documents. The first is a base PPP document
- describing the packet encapsulation and the process for control and
- option negotiation for the link and IP, but does not describe the
- options themselves.
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- The second document describes the options for the Link Control Protocol
- (LCP) and the IP Control Protocol (IPCP). This document also describes a
- simple authentication method that can be used when bringing up the link
- and a means of doing link quality monitoring (formally keep-alives) of
- the link during operation.
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- Final editing of the first document was done and it was submitted for
- review as an RFC. The working group reviewed the second document to
- clear up any technical details but put most the emphasis on the method
- of Link Quality Monitoring (LQM). The details of (LQM) where discussed
- and agreed upon and would be written into the second document after the
- meeting. Both the base document as it was submitted to be an RFC and
- the second document are being submitted as Internet Drafts for public
- review.
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- Areas in need of further work are:
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- 1. Stronger Authentication Protocols
- 2. Definition of encryption methods
- 3. Definition of the use of other high level protocols
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- As a beginning of the new extensions WG, members volunteered to write
- definitions for the use of bridging, DECNET (Phase IV and V), and XNS
- over PPP.
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- ATTENDEES
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- This is a consolidated attendee list for the meetings of Tuesday and
- Wednesday.
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- Arnold, Susan Knowles, Stev
- Baker, Fred LoVerso, John R.
- Berggreen, Art Mamakos, Louis A.
- Boivie, Rick McKenney, Paul E.
- Broersma, Ron Melohn, Bill
- Carvalho, Charles Opalka, Zbigniew
- Catlett, Charlie Reilly, Michael
- Chiappa, Noel Schoch, Steven
- Farinacci, Dino Westfield, Bill
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