INPG Directorate Teleconference
        	          December 6 , 1993

         Reported by:  Steve Coya

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

J Allard / Mircosoft
Steve Bellovin / AT&T
Jim Bound / DEC
Ross Callon / Wellfleet
Brian Carpenter / CERN	
John Curran / NEARnet
Steve Deering /Xerox PARC
Dino Farinacci / Cisco 
Eric Fleischman / Boeing
Mark Knopper / MERIT
Paul Mockapetris / ISI
Rob Ullmann / Lotus

Regrets
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Dave Clark / MIT
Paul Francis / Bellcore
Daniel Karrenberg / RIPE
Greg Minshall / Novell
Lixia Zhang / Xerox PARC



1. The minutes from the November 22 teleconference were approved. Coya
   to make minutes available on the IETF shadow directories.

2. Comments were solicitied on the white paper outlines. A number of
   topics were discussed (implementation costs, performance,
   accounting, policy-based routing, etc.). Revised text submissions
   are to be sent via e-mail.

   The Directorate was requested to submit names of potential authors
   for white papers. 

3. It was decided that the deadline for white paper submissions should
   be set to February 1, 1994. This should give sufficient time for
   review, returning comments to the authors for revisions, and getting
   revisions out before the IETF meeting in Seattle (last week of
   March).

4. The ALE Working Group charter was reviewed. A question was raised as
   to whether the wg should also consider the routing table exhaustion
   problem as part of its charter, in addition to focusing on address
   space usage. Another topic was whether the ALE WG should be asked to
   evaluate IP address proposals.

   Ross Callon is going to search for a paper which he started on
   methods (beyond CIDR) for extending the lifetime of IP. This
   includes hidden addresses and some other methods. He will send a
   copy to the IPng list.

   A revised WG Charter is to be sent to both the IPNG Directorate and
   the ALE WG.


5. It was proposed that the white papers to be written by the candidate
   proponents should be considered as good overviews with highlights
   and summaries more than white papers. There were comments on what
   should and should not be included in these overview documents. It
   was noted that all candidtates had been invited to write articles
   for ConneXions, and these articles might meet the requirements for
   the overview documents requested by the IPNG Direcotorate.

   All proponents were ask to prepare a list of documents (and where
   they can be found) and make the list available. This would provide a
   bibliography for anyone interested in more detailed reading and/or
   analysis, especially after reading the proponent documents.