Internet Area

Director(s):


   o Philip Almquist:  almquist@jessica.stanford.edu
   o Noel Chiappa:  jnc@ptt.lcs.mit.edu


Area Summary reported by Greg Vaudreuil /CNRI

There were four Internet Area working groups and two Birds of a Feather
sessions during this IETF meeting.

Dynamic Configuration of Network Links BOF (DCNL)

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.

Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group (DHC)

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.

IP over Appletalk Working Group (APPLEIP)

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.

IP over ATM Working Group (ATM)

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.

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.

Point to Point Protocol Extensions Working Group (PPPEXT)

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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