GSMP BOF minutes  Tuesday 12/8 IETF 43
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The meeting was chaired by Avri Doria and reported on by Fiffi Hellstrand.
The purpose of the BoF was to see if there were any consensus in forming a
GSMP working group.

Avri presented the agenda and the goals of the meeting.  The agenda
included;
-proposed WG charter,
-presentations on GSMPv2.0 and QoS
-implementation discussion

There were no objections to the proposed agenda and meeting goals.

1. PROPOSED WORKING GROUP CHARTER

Kenneth Sundell  gave the first part of the presentation on the proposed
working group objectives.   There were no objections or comments on the
objectives.  Avri Doria then proposed  a number of work items, including
time schedules.

A version of GSMP protocol document is scheduled for working group last call
by 12/99.  Several other goals where presented.

There was discussion about the necessity of defining an GSMP MIB as a work
item.  This was discussed in the sense ôdo we need a MIB?ö.   While there
was a minority opinion on the fact that GSMP did not require a MIB because
it was GSMP was self contained in that respect.  The consensus of the group,
however,  was to include a GSMP MIB as a WG work item.

There was discussion on the proposed schedule for the  ôsupport of QoS
models in GSMPö work item.  It was originally listed as being resolved by
4/99.  This was felt to be too optimistic.  The recommendation was made and
accepted to schedule this for 8/99 instead.  In order to keep the WG
schedule balanced, it was suggested and accepted that the  work item ôGSMP
support for non-ATM label switchö, which was originally scheduled for 8/99
be rescheduled for  4/99 since it is expected to be a relatively simple
task.
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The consensus of the meeting was to proceed with a request to the routing
area AD and the IESG for the formation of a GSMP working group with the
proposed charter as amended.

2. PRESENTATIONS

Bilel Jamoussi presented ôQoS requirements from MPLS explicit routed pathsö
.  He gave a presentation written by Tom Worster, who could not attend the
meeting.  The presentation outlined the QoS requirements which stem from the
CR-LDP I-D.

Peter Newman gave a presentation on GSMPv2.0 and the changes from GSMP V1.1.
His presentation focused on the QoS model which was included in GSMP V2.

Parasuram Ranganathan gave a presentation on ôa framework for QoS for open
controlö.   He presented a model which could be modified for GSMP to allow
support of IntServ and DiffServ QoS requirements.  He also stated that the
model could be adapted to the MPLS traffic engineering requirements.

Parasuram stated that he would post the pointer to the draft on the GSMP
mailing list.

3. DISCUSSION OF CURRENT IMPLEMENTATION EFFORTS

There were three brief presentation on implementation work on GSMP which has
already been done.
Kenneth Sundell presented Ericsson³s experience using  GSMP as a component
in the MPLS system they are about to release.  This system was recently part
of an interoperability demo with Nortel  and GDC.

Avri Doria gave a brief description of GDC/RevenantÆs experience of
implementing GSMP on a standard ATM switch.

Dr. Andrew Campbell gave a short overview of work being done at Columbia
University on the development and experience of qGSMP which is similar to
GSMPv2.0, in that it is based on GSMP V1.1 but with the addition of QoS
support.