Internetworking Over NBMA (ion)
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Charter
Last Modified: 06/15/2000

Current Status: Concluded Working Group

Chair(s):
    A Malis  <[email protected]>

Internet Area Director(s):
    Thomas Narten  <[email protected]>
    Erik Nordmark  <[email protected]>

Internet Area Advisor:
    Erik Nordmark  <[email protected]>

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Description of Working Group:

Note: This Working Group is jointly chartered by the Routing Area.
The Routing Area Director:  Joel Halpern ([email protected])

Motivation

The Internetworking Over NBMA Working Group was formed to combine the
work of two previous working groups, IP Over ATM (ipatm) and Routing
Over Large Clouds (rolc), because these two groups were often working
very closely together on similar, if not identical, problems and
solutions.  The group will be evolutionary, not revolutionary; it will
continue the work in the previous groups on the NBMA Next Hop
Resolution Protocol (NHRP), IPv4 over ATM, and IPv6 over ATM.

Description

This WG will focus on the issues involved in internetworking network
layer protocols over NBMA (non-broadcast multiple access) subnetwork
technologies, such as ATM, Frame Relay, SMDS, and X.25 private and
public networks.  The group will endeavor to make all its solutions
applicable to the entire range of network layer protocols and NBMA
subnetworks.  We recognize, however, that there will be cases where
specific optimizations to IPv4, IPv6, and particular subnetwork
technologies will result in better service to the user.

The group will focus on protocols for encapsulation, multicasting,
addressing, address resolution and neighbor discovery, interactions
with and optimization of internetworking-layer routing protocols when
run over NBMA subnetworks, and protocol-specific network management
support, as appropriate.  The working group will submit these
protocols for standardization.

The working group may also produce experimental and informational
documents, including "Best Current Practices" guidelines, as
required.

For ATM, the WG will continue the ipatm WG's transition from the LIS
model described in RFC 1577 to the generalized NHRP model developed by
the rolc WG, including a transition plan for existing networks.

The working group will coordinate its activities with the following
other working groups:

1) Integrated Services over Specific Lower Layers (issll), for
  coordinating Quality of Service (QoS) issues and the implementation
  of IP integrated services capabilities (RSVP, the service models,
  etc.) over NBMA networks.

2) IP Next Generation (ipng), for IPv6 over ATM coordination.

The working group will also coordinate its work with other relevant
standards bodies (e.g., ATM Forum, Frame Relay Forum, ANSI T1S1,
ITU-T) and make recommendations to these organizations regarding the
requirements for IP internetworking where the current published
subnetwork standards, practices, or functionality do not meet the
needs of internetworking.

The working group will not develop subnetwork layer standards.

Goals and Milestones:

  Done         Begin work on internetworking over Frame Relay SVCs (RFC
               1490 extension), using NHRP for address resolution.

  Done         Revise drafts on NHRP, 1577 revisions, server
               synchronization (applicable to both NHRP and ATMARP),
               multicast server and broadcast for ATM, IPv6 neighbor
               discovery, ATM UNI 4.0 signaling (RFC 1755 update),
               Classical IP and NHRP MIBs, NHRP applicability, ATMARP to
               NHRP transition plan, and router-router NHRP.

  Done         IAB and IESG review of WG Status, and plans. This meeting
               will be scheduled to occur during SIGCOMM '96.

  Done         Submit NHRP, RFC 1577 revisions, and server synchronization
               to the IESG as a Proposed Standard, complete the ATMARP to
               NHRP transition plan and NHRP applicability statement,
               revise drafts on multicast server and broadcast for ATM,
               IPv6 neighbor discovery, classical IP and NHRP MIBs,
               router-router NHRP, ATM UNI 4.0 signaling (RFC 1755 upd

  Done         Submit IPv6 neighbor discovery, classical IP and NHRP MIBs,
               router-router NHRP, ATM UNI 4.0 signaling (RFC 1755
               update), multicast server and broadcast for ATM, and NHRP
               for Frame Relay SVCs to the IESG.

  Done         Publish the IP over ATM Framework document (now RFC 1932),
               submit the MARS draft to IESG as a Proposed Standard.

  JAN 98       Update for RFC1490 (to be submitted as Standard)

  JAN 98       Update for RFC1293 (to be submitted as Draft Standard)

  FEB 98       Submit IPv6 over NBMA, ATM, and FR drafts to IESG for
               consideration as a Proposed Standard.

  FEB 98       Submit Distributed MARS Service Using SCSP to IESG for
               consideration as an Informational RFC.

  FEB 98       Submit NHRP MIB to IESG for consideration as a Proposed
               Standard.

  MAR 98       Submit ILMI-Based Server Discovery for ATMARP to IESG for
               consideration as a Proposed Standard.

  MAR 98       Submit ILMI-Based Server Discovery for MARS to IESG for
               consideration as a Proposed Standard.

  MAR 98       Submit ILMI-Based Server Discovery for NHRP to IESG for
               consideration as a Proposed Standard.

  MAR 98       Submit Intra-area Unicast based upon OSPF ARA to IESG for
               consideration as a Proposed Standard.

  MAR 98       Submit Ion Security I-D to IESG for consideration as a
               Proposed Standard.

  NOV 98       NHRP client guidelines

  NOV 98       Use of Proxy PAR

  NOV 98       Router-Router NHRP

  DEC 98       CLOSE DOWN WORKING GROUP


Internet-Drafts:

 No Current Internet-Drafts.

Request For Comments:

 RFC   Stat Published     Title
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RFC2121 I    MAR 97    Issues affecting MARS Cluster Size

RFC2149 I    MAY 97    Multicast Server Architectures for MARS-based ATM
                      multicasting.

RFC2115 DS   SEP 97    Management Information Base for Frame Relay DTEs
                      Using SMIv2

RFC2226 PS   OCT 97    IP Broadcast over ATM Networks

RFC2269 I    JAN 98    Using the MARS model in non-ATM NBMA networks.

RFC2320 PS   APR 98    Definitions of Managed Objects for Classical IP and
                      ARP Over ATM Using SMIv2 (IPOA-MIB)

RFC2225 PS   APR 98    Classical IP and ARP over ATM

RFC2335 PS   APR 98    A Distributed NHRP Service Using SCSP

RFC2331 PS   APR 98    ATM Signalling Support for IP over ATM - UNI
                      Signalling 4.0 Update

RFC2334 PS   APR 98    Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)

RFC2333 PS   APR 98    NHRP Protocol Applicability Statement

RFC2332 PS   APR 98    NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)

RFC2337 E    MAY 98    Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM using
                      Sparse Mode PIM

RFC2366 PS   JUL 98    Definitions of Managed Objects for Multicast over
                      UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks

RFC2336 I    JUL 98    Classical IP to NHRP Transition

RFC2390 DS   SEP 98    Inverse Address Resolution Protocol

RFC2417 PS   SEP 98    Definitions of Managed Objects for Multicast over
                      UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks

RFC2427Standard  SEP 98    Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay

RFC2443 E    NOV 98    A Distributed MARS Service Using SCSP

RFC2491 PS   JAN 99    IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA)
                      networks

RFC2492 PS   JAN 99    IPv6 over ATM Networks

RFC2520 E    FEB 99    NHRP with Mobile NHCs

RFC2583 I    MAY 99    Guidelines for Next Hop Client (NHC) Developers

RFC2590 PS   JUN 99    Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Frame Relay
                      Networks Specification

RFC2603 PS   JUN 99    ILMI-Based Server Discovery for NHRP

RFC2602 PS   JUN 99    ILMI-Based Server Discovery for MARS

RFC2601 PS   JUN 99    ILMI-Based Server Discovery for ATMARP

RFC2677 PS   SEP 99    Definitions of Managed Objects for the NBMA Next Hop
                      Resolution Protocol (NHRP)

RFC2684 PS   SEP 99    Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation
                      Layer 5

RFC2685 PS   SEP 99    Virtual Private Networks Identifier

RFC2735 PS   DEC 99    NHRP Support for Virtual Private Networks

RFC2843 I    JUN 00    Proxy PAR