CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Scott Bradner/Harvard BMWG Minutes The BMWG met on Tuesday, July 30th in Atlanta during the IETF meeting. The single topic of the discussions was to explore ways to more closely relate the design of tests for routers and bridges to the conditions found in the real world. We explored the issues of bi-directional traffic, mixed protocols and random address and came to the conclusion that it would be difficult, at the least, to simulate a real-world network but that most of the above issues should be included in the test design. It was concluded, in the absence of actual tests, that the choice of routing protocol probably did not make any performance difference to the routed protocol after the next-hop address had been learned and added to the routing cache. Tests should be performed to see if this is true. We agreed to hold a video conference in mid September to continue refining the actual procedures that should be used to do throughput tests. Attendees James Barnes barnes@xylogics.com Jim Beers beers@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu Scott Bradner sob@harvard.edu Randy Butler rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu Arlan Finestead arlanf@ncsa.uiuc.edu Kenneth Goodwin goodwin@psc.edu Olafur Gudmundsson ogud@cs.umd.edu Jack Hahn hahn@umd5.umd.edu Phani Jujjavarapu phani@cisco.com Frank Kastenholz kasten@europa.clearpoint.com Michael Khalandovsky mlk@ftp.com Mark Lewis mlewis@telebit.com Bill Manning bmanning@rice.edu Bradford Parker brad@cayman.com Jason Perreault perreaul@interlan.interlan.com K.K. Ramakrishnan rama@kalvi.enet.dec.com Ron Roberts roberts@jessica.stanford.edu Kary Robertson kr@concord.com.kr A. Minick Rushton rushton@stsci.edu Gershon Schatzberg 439-3582@mcimail.com John Scudder jgs@merit.edu Martha Steenstrup msteenst@bbn.com Osamu Takada takada@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Jonathan Wenocur jhw@shiva.com Cathy Wittbrodt cjw@nersc.gov 1 2