CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by Frank Kastenholz/FTP Software

Minutes of the Router Requirements Working Group (RREQ)

The Router Requirements Working Group met on 30 March 1994 for about one
hour.  After introductory and administrative topics were presented, the
working group addressed its three agenda items:


  1. The current Internet-Draft document was adopted and approved for
     publication as an Historic RFC. It was suggested that the document
     be more explicit in recognizing the efforts and contributions of
     the previous chair, Phil Almquist.  With that change, the document
     was approved by the working group for publication.

  2. The working group developed a list of items, in addition to the
     ones presented in the Internet-Draft, which need to be addressed in
     order to bring Router Requirements ``up to date.''  The main items
     brought up during the meeting were:  tunneling, distributed
     routing, multicast, automatic configuration, proxy ARP,
     non-contiguous subnet masks and route leaking.  The exhaustive list
     is in the slides accompanying these minutes.

  3. Volunteers were solicited in order to carry out writing assignments
     on several issues which can be completed in 1994.  Tasks which are
     to be addressed are:

       o Geoff Huston and Robert Elz volunteered to look at Chapters 1,
         2, and 3 (Introduction, Architecture, and Data Link) and make
         suggested revisions.

       o Paul Traina will offer revisions with regard to CIDR, network
         mask guidelines, and subnetworks of all 1s or 0s.

       o Jamshid Mahdavi will offer additional text and changes with
         regard to Source Quench and congestion control.

       o Frank Kastenholz will modify the document to deprecate old
         versions of BGP and EGP. BGP-4 will be required for use.

       o Frank Kastenholz will add text to the document for router
         discovery.

     The working group also made the general recommendation that any
     text that may be considered to be `CIDR-Hostile' should be removed
     from the document.  The editor will undertake this task.


A suggestion was offered that perhaps the best approach to revising the
document would be to simply rewrite it, several chapters at a time, in a
serial fashion.  The working group rejected this on the basis that many
issues were `distributed' in nature throughout the document, and
preferred to address things several topics at a time, rather than
several chapters at a time.


Attendees

Michael Anello           mike@xlnt.com
Dennis Baker             dbaker@wellfleet.com
William Barns            barns@gateway.mitre.org
Stephen Batsell          batsell@itd.nrl.navy.mil
David Bridgham           dab@epilogue.com
Scott Brim               swb1@cornell.edu
Steve Buchko             stevebu@newbridge.com
Jeffrey Burgan           jeff@nsipo.nasa.gov
Greg Celmainis           gregc@newbridge.com
Michael Collins          collins@es.net
Curtis Cox               ccox@wnyosi7.nctsw.navy.mil
Sean Doran               smd@use.net
Avri Doria               avri@proteon.com
Kjeld Borch Egevang      kbe@craycom.dk
Nasser El-Aawar          nna@ans.net
Robert Elz               kre@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au
Shoji Fukutomi           fuku@furukawa.co.jp
Vince Fuller             vaf@barrnet.net
Chris Gunner             gunner@dsmail.lkg.dec.com
William Haggerty         haggerty@ctron.com
Ian Heavens              ian@spider.co.uk
Geoff Huston             g.huston@aarnet.edu.au
Yoshinobu Inoue          shin@hodaka.mfd.cs.fujitsu.co.jp
Bent Jensen              bent@cisco.com
Matthew Jonson           jonson@ddn.af.mil
Frank Kastenholz         kasten@ftp.com
Manu Kaycee              kaycee_m@timeplex.com
Tony Li                  tli@cisco.com
Kim Long                 klong@nysernet.org
Peter Lothberg           roll@stupi.se
Jamshid Mahdavi          mahdavi@psc.edu
Bill Manning             bmanning@rice.edu
Gerry Meyer              gerry@spider.co.uk
William Miskovetz        misko@cisco.com
Julie Myers              jmyers@network.com
Peder Chr.  Noergaard    pcn@tbit.dk
William Nowicki          nowicki@sgi.com
Jason Perreault          jason@synoptics.com
Rex Pugh                 pugh@hprnd.rose.hp.com
Kenneth Rehbehn          kjr@netrix.com
Benny Rodrig             brodrig@rnd-gate.rad.co.il
Guenter Roeck            roeck@conware.de
Michal Rozenthal         michal@fibronics.co.il
Paul Serice              serice@cos.com
William Simpson          bsimpson@morningstar.com
Henry Sinnreich          hsinnreich@mcimail.com
Paul Traina              pst@cisco.com
Curtis Villamizar        curtis@ans.net
Maria Vistoli            vistoli@infn.it
Rick Wilder              wilder@mcimail.com
Walter Wimer             ww0n+@andrew.cmu.edu
Cathy Wittbrodt          cjw@barrnet.net
Shinichi Yoshida         yoshida@sumitomo.com