This report contains IPNG Directorate meeting notes, positions and
action items.
These minutes were compiled by the IETF Secretariat which is supported
by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NCR 8820945.
ATTENDEES
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Scott Bradner / Harvard
Allison Mankin / NRL
Steve Bellovin / AT&T
Jim Bound / DEC
Ross Callon / Wellfleet
Dave Clark / MIT
John Curran / NEARnet
Steve Deering / Xerox PARC
Eric Fleischman / Boeing
Bob Hinden / Sun
Greg Minshall / Novell
Paul Mockapetris / ISI
Yakov Rekhter / IBM
Lixia Zhang / Xerox PARC
Regrets
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J Allard / Microsoft
Brian Carpenter / CERN
Dino Farinacci / Cisco
Mark Knopper / Ameritech
Rob Ullmann / Lotus
1. The minutes from the July 11 and July 18 teleconferences were
approved. Coya will place in the shadow directories.
2. Ross Callon has a draft IPNG WG charter, and will send it to the
directorate for review.
3. There is a need for an overview to compliment the SST Overview
transition plan, including a description of when IPv6 addresses are
needed. Allison asked for volunteers to write a review of the SST
overview section. Ross Callon volunteered to perform a review and
send comments to the relevant individuals.
4. Dave Clark reported that they (MIT) had received between 35-40
requests for information and/or directions for the IPng walkthru.
Paul Mockapetris (ISI) and Steve Deering (Xerox Parc) reported
getting 3-7 requests each.
Use of White Board technology during the presentation is planned by
a number of folks. This implies a need to get presentations ready
via Postscript prior to the meeting, and it was suggested that
copies of the presentation slides be sent to all sites.
5. The proposed schedule for Aug. 22 IPng walkthru is as follows:
Allison will work on the agenda and get it to Paul Mockapetris, who
will then send it out to the IETF.
6. Yakov reported that the addressing architecture document is now
available as an I-D, and that he and Peter Lothberg are working
on a provider-based addressing document.
7. Bob Hinden is working on a high level overview of SIPP-16 addressing
along with a roadmap from here to there (includes mappings to other
protocol suites).
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ALLISON/SCOTT
The following items are from Dave Clark's discussions which,
as I recall, was started with the understanding that this was
for the directorate only. I don't recall when the pen was
supposed to go down, or if I accurately captured the main points
of discussion. I've included these notes for three reasons:
1. So you'll no I wasn't asleep :-)
2. So you can decide whether they are to be included in
the minutes or not (on an item by item basis)
3. If #2 is yes, did I get them right?
8. There was a discussion focusing on how to get router vendors, host
vendors, and service providers on the IPv6 bandwagon, and avoid the
resistance of some to wait until the transition plans are either
better defined or underway before they commit to producing IPv6
products, and to avoid unstandardized retro-fitting of IPv6 features
into IPv4 applications and a host of NAT boxes.
9. It was stated that attention needs to be given to the performance of
IPv6, especially the case where source domain routing might be
encapsulated in the IPv6 header, and to take advantage of header
compression to address concerns that 16 byte headers can/will/might
slow down processing, or be processed inefficiently.
10. Do certain items, such as hop-by-hop flows, need to be
included/ specified by December? Can these items wait until more
experience is gained with Ipv6 AND the items themselves?
What is the balance between the requirement to specificy IPNG by
the December committment date vs. including items that, if not in
the spec, may never happen.
11. It was noted that the SDR working group is working on source domain
routing with IPv6, but there was concern that it was being done
outside of the IPNG Working Group and "outside the Directorate's
perception" (i.e. not all were aware of the work being done).
