IPNG Directorate Teleconference Valentines Day, 1994 Reported by: Mark Knopper This report contains IPNG Directorate meeting notes, positions and action items. ATTENDEES --------- Scott Bradner / Harvard Allison Mankin / NRL Steve Bellovin / AT&T Jim Bound / DEC Ross Callon / Wellfleet Brian Carpenter / CERN Dave Clark / MIT John Curran / NEARnet Steve Deering /Xerox PARC Eric Fleischman / Boeing Paul Francis / Bellcore Mark Knopper / Ameritech Greg Minshall / Novell Rob Ullmann / Lotus Lixia Zhang / Xerox PARC Regrets ------- J Allard / Microsoft Dino Farinacci / Cisco Daniel Karrenberg / RIPE Paul Mockapetris / ISI 1. The minutes of the January 17 teleconference were approved. 2. Dave Clark reviewed the purpose of the External Review Panel which is to lead the process to produce an IPng requirements document and an overall assessment document and ultimately produce a recommendation for a protocol selection. 3. The following process and schedule was adopted: Before March IETF: a. Frank Kastenholtz and Craig Partridge to produce a draft requirements document, without benefit of input from IPng Directorate White Papers. This is needed 3 weeks from now (March 7). b. The Directorate will produce an update of this document based on the White Papers. This update will be sent to external reviewers, and a 3 week comment period will be allowed. During March IETF: c. The requirements draft will be presented to the plenary at the start of the week. d. The protocol working groups (TUBA, CATNIP, SIPP) will discuss these requirements as part of their agendas. There will also be a transition working group (TACIT) meeting. e. A requirements BOF will be held toward the end of the week. After March IETF: f. The IPng Directorate will immediately produce a new draft based on feedback from external reviewers and the IETF. A 3 week comment period will be allowed. g. A final Requirements RFC will be produced by the Directorate (& wg chairs) revising the document after IETF meeting. h. Each proposal group will produce a paper saying how they will meet requirements. A 3 week turn around will follow, then the Directorate & ADs review these answers. i. The IPng area directors will write the first draft of the final output document for IPng (assessment and protocol selection). The draft will be sent to the Directorate, and external reviewers, with a 3 week period for comments. The document will be revised based on comments received. During the July IETF: j. The final requirements paper will be presented to the IETF plenary. k. The assessment document will be presented for discussion at the plenary and a BOF. It was noted by some that this is a very aggressive schedule, but the group felt the July schedule should be pursued. 4. Dave Clark will lead the process of lining up the external reviewers. He will send a draft of a kickoff message to the directorate for review, which will then be sent to the potential reviewers. Reviewers will be asked to participate via written comments, on conference calls, or possibly in a special workshop in July. Reviewer comments will not be made public without permission of their authors. 5. A list of white papers received and expected was sent out by Allison. It was suggested that the list include the topic for each white paper, and Allison agreed to update the list. The group also agreed that white papers should be assigned document numbers for easy reference. The white papers are not publicly available via FTP until the clarity review process is complete. Each white paper will need to be reviewed by at least 3 people. Reviews are mainly for clarity, ie. are the words clear and thoughts complete, with specific suggestions on how to fix any problems. Allison will collate comments received and send them out to the group in an organized fashion. Comments from directorate members can be sent to authors directly (with copy to directorate list). Future white papers will be sent to the group with descriptive e-mail subject. Suggested white papers were: an ATM perspective (eg. Juha Heinanen); and a telephone company perspective (eg. Mark Knopper). 6. Frank Kastenholtz is a co-chair of the Requirements WG; a European co-chair is being solicited by Brian Carpenter. 7. Atul Bansal (DEC) and Geoff Huston (AARN) will be co-chairs of the TACIT WG. TACIT will be a long term working group. Atul will be drafting the WG charter. 8. TP/IX is being renamed to CATNIP.The charter is ready to go. Rob has added minor wording changes. The SIPP working group also needs a new charter, since it has been renamed. 9. Next IPng Directorate meetings: February 28: telechat March 14: telechat March 21: possible telechat March 28-April 1: IETF