CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by Jim Forster/cisco

RREQ Minutes

The Router Requirements Working Group split their work into two
documents; Link Requirements and Router Requirements.  The group further
considered rewriting and consolodating the IP and ICMP specifications.
There was consensus that this was a good thing, but there were doubts as
to whether there was time or energy to do it.

The router requirements document was edited on a comprehensive full
pass.  Issues discusses included:


   o Whether a router should support a public SNMP session.  It was
     decided to pass this to the Interconnectivity Working Group.
   o The concept of minimum configuration was rejected for this
     document.  The vendor must make sure that when a router comes on
     line, it does not begin a routing function, without being correctly
     configured.  There needs to be a sanity check on certain
     parameters.
   o There was a discussion of routing preference order between routing
     protocols, such as IS-IS, and OSPF. The larger question was:
     Should we specify a routing entry preference?  How should a router
     use a forwarding table and how should it be ordered?  There was no
     consensus on this point.  The only thing nearly everyone agreed on
     was that internal routes ought be preferred over external routes,
     and that RIP is unsatisfactory.  Further, there must be a switch to
     determine which routing protocol is in charge.
   o Congestion control.  Note that choosing to drop the last packet on
     the queue is the worst possible choice via three different
     experiments.  The document will recommend that a router ought to
     have 2 * bandwidth delay product buffer space in every router along
     a path.  We need to note that a lot of the problem of congestion is
     poor site engineering.  Note that queue length ought not be allowed
     to rise too long.  One needs to go into congestion avoidance if
     this is occurring.  How one then throttles a host is still a
     problem.  We note that there is no benefit to source quench.


Attendees


Stephen Adams            decwrl::"adams@zeppo"
Nick Alfano              nick@gandalf.ca
Cathy Aronson            cja@marmot.nersc.gov
Art Berggreen            art@opal.acc.com
Chet Birger              cbirger@bbn.com
Larry Brandt             lbrandt@sparta.com
Eric Brunner             brunner@monet.berkeley.edu

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Jeffrey Burgan           jeff@nsipo.nasa.gov
Ross Callon              callon@bigfut.enet.dec.com
Isaac Chan               isaac@gui.consumers.bc.ca
Farokh Deboo             fjd@interlink.com
Steve Deering            deering@pescadero.stanford.edu
Robert Elz               kre@munnari.oz.au
Tom Evans                wcc@cup.portal.com
Jeffrey Fitzgerald       jjf@fibercom.com
James Forster            forster@cisco.com
Karen Frisa              karen@kinetics.com
Vince Fuller             fuller@jessica.stanford.edu
Martin Gross             gross@polaris.dca.mil
Chris Gunner             gunner@osicwg.enet.dec.com
Peter Harrison           harrison@miden.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Charles Hedrick          hedrick@aramis.rutgers.edu
Ruei-Hsin Hsiao          nac::hsiao
Ole Jacobsen             ole@csli.stanford.edu
Van Jacobson             van@helios.ee.lbl.gov
Michael Karels           karels@berkeley.edu
Paulina Knibbe           knibbe@cisco.com
Stev Knowles             stev@ftp.com
Alex Koifman             akoifman@bbn.com
Sam Lam
Gregory Lauer            glauer@bbn.com
John Lekashman           lekash@orville.nas.nasa.gov
Solomon Liou             solomon%penril@uunet.uu.net
Yoni Malachi             malachi@polya.stanford.edu
Gary Malkin              gmalkin@ftp.com
Milo Medin               medin@nsipo.nasa.gov
Judy Messing             messing@gateway.mitre.org
David Miller             dtm@ulana.mitre.org
Brad Parker              brad@cayman.com
Craig Partridge          craig@nnsc.nsf.net
Stephanie Price          cmcvax!price@hub.ucsb.edu
Michael Reilly           reilly@nsl.dec.com
Steve Senum              sjs@network.com
Jim Sheridan             jsherida@ibm.com
Deepinder Sidhu          sidhu@umbc3.umbc.edu
Frank Slaughter          fgs@shiva.com
Frank Solensky           solensky@interlan.interlan.com
Tony Staw                staw@marvin.enet.dec.com
Ken Stetten              kstetten@nrao.edu
Bob Stewart              rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com
Roxanne Streeter         streeter@nsipo.arc.nasa.gov
Gregory Vaudreuil        gvaudre@nri.reston.va.us
Jonathan Wenocur         jhw@shiva.com
Walter Wimer             ww0n+@andrew.cmu.edu
Robert Woodburn          woody@saic.com
Allan Young              rcoay@possum.ecg.rmit.oz.au
Jessica Yu               jyy@merit.edu



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