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Reported by John Veizades/Apple

APPLEIP Minutes

AppleTalk over IP Tunneling

The Apple-IP Working Group met at the Atlanta IETF. These are the
Minutes of that meeting.

The Agenda was as follows:

AURP


   o Update
   o Work in progress
   o What is left to do


SNMP


   o SNMP over DDP


AppleTalk MIB


   o Old mib
   o New mib
   o Other mibs


PPP and AppleTalk


   o Specification and description
   o Issues
   o Security


MacIP


   o Protocol change
   o Doc clean up
   o Next step


Other Issues

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   o AA protocol
   o Configuration management


The work with PPP over AppleTalk is being handled by Brad Parker.  He
has documented the NCP specifics for AppleTalk and is talking to the PPP
Working Group about adding LCP support for dial back (one of the issues
that the group felt must be added to the LCP). Brad is also working with
Apple to get support of the protocol from Apple.

The SNMP and MIB work is progressing.  The old MIB is now an RFC and has
been implemented by several vendors.  The new MIB is available from
lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu the file name is appletlak-mib2.txt.  The
specification for SNMP over DDP is available from apple.com in the
directory /pub/apple-ip.  Mike Ritter of Apple and Greg Minshall from
Novell are working on this.  This specification should be finished by
the next meeting.

The AURP work was presented by Alan Oppenheimer.  The folks from Shiva
and Apple have been working on prototypes of this specification and have
been interoperating over the Internet.  The Shiva folks brought up
several issues as to the transport layer AURP provides.  Alan will be
changing the document to better differentiate the transport layer from
the rest of the AURP protocol.

One change was made to the MacIP document and was presented to the
group.  Several issues as to the final format of the document were made
and comments were presented to the author.  A revised version of the
document will be published shortly.

The meeting finished with the continuing discussion of the AA protocol.
Phil Bunde still has the action to produce the actual document.

As Working Group Chair of this group I still have the concern that much
of the work that must be done for AppleTalk to continue to grow as a
protocol family is still not being accomplished by either Apple or the
AppleTalk developer community at large.  This work must be done and some
forum should be created for this progress to occur.

Attendees

Gregory Bruell           gob@shiva.com
Philip Budne             phil@shiva.com
Richard Cherry           rcherry@novell.com
Richard Cogger           rhx@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu
Robert Elz               kre@munnari.oz.au
Karen Frisa              karen.frisa@andrew.cmu.edu
Douglas Kerr             dougk@mtxinu.com
Nik Langrind             nik@shiva.com
Brian Lloyd              brian@telebit.com
John Lynn                lynn@ttcllcat.cit.cornell.edu
Phil Mathis              phil@gatech.edu
Leo McLaughlin           ljm@wco.ftp.com
Greg Minshall            minshall@wc.novell.com

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Chandy Nilakantan        csn@3com.com
Alan Oppenheimer         oppenheimer1@applelink.apple.com
Michael Ritter           mwritter@applelink.apple.com
John Scudder             jgs@merit.edu
Richard Telljohann       telljohann1@applelink.apple.com
John Veizades            veizades@apple.com
A. Lee Wade              wade@discovery.arc.nasa.gov
Jonathan Wenocur         jhw@shiva.com



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