CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Bob Hinden/BBN
Minutes of the IP over Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM BOF)
The meeting was organized as a BOF to determine if there was enough
interest in forming an IETF Working Group to develop protocols to run IP
over ATM networks. The meeting was attended by 64 people.
The first half of the meeting was a presentation by Bob Hinden / BBN
covering the reasons why the BOF was organized. The talk included:
o Motivation for the IP over ATM Group
o Why ATM in Interesting
o Relationship to Other Standards Groups
o Area for Work
o Next Steps
The second half of the meeting was a discussion of whether the group
should be formed and if so what area the group should first focus on.
The work areas discussed included:
o ATM Internet Architecture
o ATM and Internetwork Operation
o Adaptation Layer Selection(s)
o Flow Control / Congestion Avoidance
o Flow Setup / Connection Establishment
o IP Encapsulation
o Multicast
o Network Management
o Physical Media
o Security
Other issues discussed include whether the group should initially
develop standard protocols or experimental protocols.
After much discussion the group decided that there was enough interest
that a IETF Working Group should formed. There was also a consensus
that the group initially develop experimental protocols.
There was agreement on the following topics:
o Approaches for Interoperability with the Internet (e.g. IP over
ATM)
o Develop a list of unknowns that need to be worked on.
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o Set up a separate mailing list from the IPLPDN Working Group.
o Identification of Architectural Alternatives to Internetworking
over ATM.
o That the work of this group not duplicate the work that is being
done in other ATM standard groups.
o Physical Layer Standards are very well covered in other standard
groups and do not need to be addressed in this group.
o There there should be communication to other ATM Standard Bodies.
o To initially not work on Congestion Control issues.
o The initial focus of the group should be a local with widearea
internetworking.
The Chairperson was tasked to revise the draft charter to be consistent
with these agreements.
Attendees
James Barnes barnes@xylogics.com
Art Berggreen art@acc.com
David Bolen db3l@nis.ans.net
Robert Braden braden@isi.edu
Theodore Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com
John Burnett jlb@adaptive.com
Lida Carrier lida@apple.com
Yee-Hsiang Chang yhc@concert.net
A. Lyman Chapin lyman@bbn.com
George Clapp clapp@ameris.center.il.ameritech.com
Richard Cogger rhx@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu
Danny Cohen cohen@isi.edu
Dave Cullerot cullerot@ctron.com
Steve Deering deering@xerox.com
Kurt Dobbins dobbins@ctron.com
Hans Eriksson hans@sics.se
Erik Fair fair@apple.com
Jim Ghadbane jimgh@newbridge.com
Joseph Godsil jgodsil@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Herve Goguely lircorp1!roger@uunet.uu.net
Kenneth Hayward crm57d@bnr.ca
Frank Heath heath@cmc.com
Christine Hemrick hemrick@cisco.com
Robert Hinden hinden@bbn.com
William Jolitz william@okeeffe.cs.berkeley.edu
Satish Joshi sjoshi@synoptics.com
Jean-Michael Jouanigot jimi@cernvax.cern.ch
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Manu Kaycee kaycee@ctron.com
Yoav Kluger ykluger@fibhaifa.com
Cheryl Krupczak cheryl@cc.gatech.edu
Anthony Lauck lauck@tl.enet.dec.com
Joseph Lawrence jcl@sabre.bellcore.com
Tom Lyon pugs@eng.sun.com
Andrew Malis malis@bbn.com
Allison Mankin mankin@gateway.mitre.org
David McDysan 0002806303@mcimail.com
Bill Melohn melohn@auspex.com
Donald Merritt don@brl.mil
Greg Minshall minshall@wc.novell.com
Dave Monachello dave@pluto.dss.com
Andy Nicholson droid@cray.com
Zbigniew Opalka zopalka@roswell.spartacus.com
Venkat Prasad vsp@3com.com
Yakov Rekhter yakov@watson.ibm.com
Manoel Rodrigues manoel.rodrigues@att.com
Philippe Roger lircorp1!roger@uunet.uu.net
Allan Rubens acr@merit.edu
Timothy Salo tjs@msc.edu
Sharad Sanghi sharad@ans.net
Tim Seaver tas@mcnc.org
John Seligson johns@ultra.com
Stephen Shew sdshew@bnr.ca
Mike Spengler mks@msc.edu
Ravi Srinivasan ravi@eng.vitalink.com
Martha Steenstrup msteenst@bbn.com
Brad Steinka brad@python.eng.microcom.com
Roxanne Streeter streeter@nsipo.nasa.gov
Sven Tafvelin tafvelin@ce.chalmers.se
Osamu Takada takada@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Paul Tsuchiya tsuchiya@thumper.bellcore.com
Lee Wade wade@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
Walter Wimer walter.wimer@andrew.cmu.edu
Richard Woundy rwoundy@ibm.com
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