CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Scott Briml/Cornell AGENDA 1. Report on Europe - Peter Kirstein 2. Report on the Pacific - Torben Nielsen 3. Report on RFC work - Kent England 4. Old and new issues of concern - Scott Brim 5. Internet Cartography Project - Ted Bruner MINUTES Coordinating international connectivity has become a significant issue for this group, first because there are few if any precedents for what is happening internationally; and second because it is all happening so fast. Report on Europe - Peter Kirstein Peter Kirstein described developments in Europe with special emphasis on links to North America. He pointed out the problems managing shared resource ``fat pipes'', multiplexed or not, where different links may have quite different use restrictions or resource allocation policies and thus, as an example, complex backup strategies. The problems here can't be solved by just a technical or just an administrative group. ``Do we know how to manage bits of SPAN separated by bits of DARPA?'' Report on the Pacific - Torben Nielsen Torben Nielsen mostly gave a status report on the Pacific. Korea is now on. At some point New Zealand will be daisy-chained to Australia and the direct link to Hawaii will be removed. Japan has multiple medium speed links; working on merging them. Taiwan soon. Australia is no longer urging Coloured Book protocols. Link to Europe within a year. Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia are talking; Thailand and Malaysia are interested. Report on RFC work - Kent England Progress is being made on the RFC for generic mid-level routing policy and ``rules of thumb''. New guidelines presented at the meeting were: explicitly engineer every fallback -- none should be accidental; avoid routing ``ties'' -- there should be distinct preferences, to avoid bistable situations; and the hardest problem to diagnose is oscillation. The group working on the RFC continued that night. 1 Old and new issues of concern - Scott Brim We had to skip this section because we were out of time. We are continuing on the TEWG mail list. Items that have been resolved since the last meeting: o VMNET interaction with the Internet: VMNET is still being planned; they will now be more conscious of the physical topology of the Internet when designing their traffic flows. o CSNet transcontinental link: Dan Long has written a routing plan which demonstrates how they are being careful not to cause routing problems with this link. o CA*Net and its multiple connections to NSFNET (and NASA): Dennis Ferguson has written a plan describing how they will use their multiple connections. Items that have been brought up outside the meeting so far are: o The Army Supercomputer Network, and how it will interact with the rest of the Internet. o Paths which have both ends in the United States but *unintentionally* travel through other countries. This same problem exists for other countries as long as they have possible fallback paths through other countries. o NASA's ACTS satellite system and how it will interact with the Internet. Internet Cartography Project Worked on jointly with the NJM working group, and presented in their report. 2 ATTENDEES Guy Almes almes@rite.edu Philip Almquist almquist@jessica.stanford.edu David Borman dab@cray.com Scott Brim swb@devvax.tn.cornell.edu Ted Brunner tob@thumper.bellcore.com David Burdelski daveb@ftp.com Isidrv Castineyra isidvu@bbu.com Tom Easterday tem@oar.net Kent England kwe@bu.edu Roger Fajman raf@cu.nih.gov Mark Fedor fedor@psi.com Dennis Ferguson dennis@gw.ccie.utoronto.ca Vince Fuller fuller@jessica.stanford.edu Jack Hahn hahn@umds.umd.edu Gene Hastings hastings@psc.edu Steve Hubert hubert@cac.warhington.edu Dan Jordt danj@nwnet.net Phil Karn karn@thumper.bellcore.com Peter Kirstein Kirstein@csivcl.ac.uk George Marshall george@adapt.net.com Matt Mathis mathis@psc.edu Don Merritt don@brl.mil Paul Mochapetris pvm@151.edu Dave O'leary oleary@noc.sura.net Lee Oattes oattes@utcs.utoronto.ca Phil Park ppark@bbn.com Mike Patton map@lcs.mit.edu Joel Repolgle replogle@ncq.uiuc.edu Milt Roselinsky cmcvax!milt@hub.vcsb.edu Karen Roubicek roubicek@nnsc.nsf.net Steve Storch sstorch@bbn.com Roxanne Streeter streeter@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov Kannan Varadham kannan@oar.net Edward Vielmetti emv@math.lsa.umich.edu John Vollbrecht jrv@merit.edu Carol Ward cward@spot.colorado.edu Linda Winkler b32357@anlvm.ctd.anl.gov Dan Wintringham danw@igloo.osc.edu John Wobus jmwobus@suvm.acs.syr.edu Sze-Ying Wuu wuu@nisc.junc.net 3