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		     IETF'38: PacketWay- WG Minutes
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		       (Reported by Danny Cohen)

The PacketWay working group met at IETF'38 in Memphis on Wednesday,
April 9.  There were 20 attenders [see attached list].

Danny Cohen opened the meeting with a PacketWay overview and the meeting
agenda.

The status of specification was discussed.  It is still an
Internet-Draft, soon to become a Proposed-Standard.  It was agreed that
the specification would benefit from a better introduction and an
attached tutorial explaining the purpose of PktWay, the approach taken,
the rationale behind it, and the like - items that do not belong to the
specifications but would help outsiders follow our work.  Robert George
will work with Danny on that tutorial

Danny reported that he did not invite the VMI people (Lockheed-Martin,
Advanced Technology Labs) to present their work, even though it relates
to PktWay, because it recommends using a protocol which is not open
(being defined in a document to which the access is controlled).

Robert George (of Mississippi State University, MSU) gave a presentation
of the work MSU has been doing on the implementation of PacketWay.

Nathan Doss (of Lockheed-Martin-Sanders)presented the work LM has been
doing on the implementation of PacketWay.

It is expected that within 2 months interoperability tests between MSU
and LM will  start.

Jeff Smith (also of Lockheed-Martin-Sanders) presented his work toward
modeling the RRP.

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