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                    IETF'37: PacketWay- WG Minutes
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The PacketWay working group met at IETF'37 in San Jose on Wednesday,
December 11.  There were about 17 attenders [see attached list].

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

Robert George (of Mississippi State University, MSU) gave a presentation
of the work they have been doing on the implementation of PacketWay and
the Secure extensions to PacketWay.  Currently MSU is supporting two
different underlying transport protocols: Myrinet and UDP.  In the
future, MSU plans to extend this support to RACEway and the Avalon link.

MSU will demonstrate interoperability of PktWay between clusters using
Myrinet, RACEway, and Avalon links.

Nathan Doss (of Lockheed-Martin-Sanders) gave a presentation on the work
Sanders is doing on a second implementation of PacketWay.  This work
involves Sanders's two-level high-performance multi-computer testbed.
It is intended that the two PacketWay implementations (MSU and Sanders)
be interconnected to demonstrate interoperability.

Thom McMahon (of MSU) gave a presentation of the preliminary work MSU is
doing in adding multicast capability to the base PacketWay
specification.

The group then discussed what steps we should be taking to move
PacketWay forward on the IETF standardization path.  It was agreed that
Danny should reissue the PacketWay specification with just the core
features (Levels A through C, without Level-D, the dynamic route
discovery).  This separation is motivated by the initial
implementations that cover only Levels A through C, without Level-D.

This document would then be submitted (in January?) to the IETF for
release at the "proposed standard" level.  The next step would be to
receive IETF-wide scrutiny of the document and complete the
two-implementation interoperability demonstration.  These efforts should
lead to "draft standard" status within the year.

Separately, dynamic-route-discovery, the Secure PacketWay, and the
PktWay-Multicast extensions should be refined and entered onto the
standardization path as independent additions to the core PktWay
specifications (similarly to the way IP is augmented by similar
protocols).

                                               Recorded by: Fred Shirley



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                           ATTENDANTS LIST

                   PktWay-WG, IETF'37, Dec-11-1996

    Name                    Organization          E-address

<01> Danny Cohen             Myricom               <[email protected]>
<02> Craig Lund              Mercury               <[email protected]>
<03> Vince Laviano           George Mason Univ.    <[email protected]>
<04> Lava K. Lavu            George Mason Univ.    <[email protected]>
<05> Fred Shirley            Sanders               <[email protected]>
<06> Robert George           MSU                   <[email protected]>
<07> Thom McMahon            MSU                   <[email protected]>
<08> Glenn McGuire           Cross Comm            <[email protected]>
<09> Phil Irey               NSWC                  <[email protected]>
<10> Mark Pullen             GMU                   <[email protected]>
<11> Jim Barnes              Baynetworks           <[email protected]>
<12> Guevthu Schmuelling     Pyramid               <[email protected]>
<13> Seshadri Srinivasan     Pyramid               <[email protected]>
<14> Scott Wasson            Whittaker Xyplex      <[email protected]>
<15> Jon Postel              USC/ISI               <[email protected]>
<16> Nathan Doss             Sanders               <[email protected]>
<17> Frank Kastenholtz       FTP Software          <[email protected]>

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