IPNG Directorate Teleconference April 25, 1994 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 --------- Scott Bradner / Harvard Allison Mankin / NRL Jim Bound / DEC Brian Carpenter / CERN Steve Deering / Xerox PARC Dino Farinacci / Cisco Eric Fleischman / Boeing Frank Kastenholz / FTP Greg Minshall / Novell Paul Mockapetris / ISI Rob Ullmann / Lotus Regrets ------- J Allard / Microsoft Steve Bellovin / AT&T Ross Callon / Wellfleet Dave Clark / MIT Jon Crowcroft / UCL John Curran / NEARnet Paul Francis / NTT Mark Knopper / Ameritech Craig Partridge / BBN Lixia Zhang / Xerox PARC 1. The minutes from the March 14, March 21, March 31, and April 11 meetings of the IPNG Directorate were approved. Coya to place in Shadow Directories Allison suggested that copies of the minutes be sent to the IESG and IAB when approved by the directorate. No objections were voiced. Coya will send the recent set of minutes to both groups. 2. The directorate discussed the upcoming IPNG Retreat, partiularly focusing on the agenda and the overall objectives. One objective agreed to was to leave the retreat with the final version of the requirements document. It was suggested that the retreat include extensive analysis of all the proposals, though this would take a great deal of time. It was reiterated that non-directorate members need to be invited to attend and discuss the technical details of the proposals. The retreat will be held May 19 and 20 (Thursday and Friday), beginning at 9-9:30 a, on Thursday, ending late Friday afternoon. Those arriving Wednesday might be able to meet Wednesday night. 3. Allison and Scott will send a message to a number of the lists encouraging everyone to look at the requirements document. Frank will get an update to the I-D submitted before the message goes out. Comment period will run until midnight on Sunday, May 8. 4. Jim was asked to prepare a detailed document which identifies aspects of each proposal which he believes will cause problems for developer or implementors. 5. Brian will work on writing and distributing a document on the coproposed convergence requirement. It will not be done in time for the reteat, but he felt it would be ready in early June. 6. Allison and Scott will be sending out homework/reading assignments to be done in preparation for the reteat.