CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_



Reported by Yakov Rekhter/IBM

BGP Minutes

The Border Gateway Protocol Working Group meeting concentrated on the
following issues:

   o Using BGP as an inter-autonomous system routing protocol for
     multicast.

   o Interaction of BGP with OSPF.

   o Using BGP as an inter-autonomous system routing protocol in Large
     Public Data Networks.

   o Repairing partitioned autonomous system with BGP.

     Scott Brim submitted a document that proposes several alternatives
     for using BGP as an inter-autonomous system routing protocol.  The
     Working group feels that before making any further recommendations
     it needs more time to study the subject.

     The group met jointly with several members of the OSPF Working
     Group to discuss the issue of interaction between BGP and OSPF. It
     was agreed that it is very important to produce a document that
     will unambiguously define such interaction.  Several members of
     both the OSPF and the BGP Working Groups agreed to work on such a
     document.  We expect that the earlier draft of this document will
     be available before the next IETF.

     The BGP Working Group met jointly with the IPLPDN Working Group to
     discuss how BGP can be used as an inter-autonomous system routing
     protocol in Large Public Data Networks.  The discussion centered
     around a presentation made by Paul Tsuchiya.  Paul agreed to write
     a document that specifies how BGP should be used in such an
     environment.  As part of this effort, Paul suggested adding new
     attributes to BGP that would identify the MAC address of the BGP
     peer.  The document that describes this attribute will be posted to
     the BGP mailing list in the near future.

     Dennis Ferguson proposed a mechanism that would allow for repairing
     a partitioned autonomous system with BGP. This involves the
     addition of a new attribute.  The document that describe this
     attribute and how it should be used in repairing a partitioned
     autonomous system will be posted to the BGP mailing list in the
     near future.

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Attendees

Ballard Bare             bare@hprnd.rose.hp.com
Bob Beach                bob@ultra.com
Ronald Broersma          ron@nosc.mil
Richard Colella          colella@osi3.ncsl.nist.gov
Steve Deering            deering@xerox.com
Dino Farinacci           dino@3com.com
Dennis Ferguson          dennis@canet.ca
Jeffrey Fitzgerald       jjf@fibercom.com
Vince Fuller             vaf@Standford.EDU
Dave Geurs               dgeurs@mot.com
Jeffrey Honig            jch@devvax.tn.cornell.edu
Douglas Kerr             dougk@wc.novell.com
Anthony Lauck            lauck@tl.enet.dec.com
Tony Li                  tli@cisco.com
April Merrill
Greg Minshall            minshall@wc.novell.com
Dennis Morris            morrisd@imo-uvax.dca.mil
Gary Mussar              mussar@bnr.ca
Yakov Rekhter            yakov@ibm.com
Stephen Shew             sdshew@bnr.ca
Frank Solensky           solensky@clearpoint.com



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