Internet Area Director(s): o Philip Almquist: almquist@jessica.stanford.edu o Noel Chiappa: jnc@ptt.lcs.mit.edu Area Summary reported by Greg Vaudreuil /CNRI There were four Internet Area working groups and two Birds of a Feather sessions during this IETF meeting. Dynamic Configuration of Network Links BOF (DCNL) This BOF has been rather long lived. The intent was to receive feedback on a mechanism developed by Cray Research to dynamically set up T3 connections between supercomputer centers. This mechanism has been published as an Experimental RFC. This meeting was spent explaining the basic mechanisms. Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group (DHC) The Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group is nearly finished there long-livedeffort to allow automatic configuration of Internet Hosts. A presentation was made to the Plenary session and the protocol is expected to be submitted to the IESG as a Proposed Standard shortly. IP over Appletalk Working Group (APPLEIP) The Appletalk Working Group discussed many AppleTalk/Internet Interworking Issues. The Group is finishing a document describing SNMP over Appletalk for environments where UDP is not available. Work is beginning on a Appletalk over X.25, using the mechanisms being reworked for IP over X.25. Appletalk over PPP is in the final stages, and was discussed both in this Working Group and in the Point to Point Working Group. New work is beginning on a protocol for distributing routing information, currently called the AA protocol. IP over ATM Working Group (ATM) The IP over ATM Working Group sprung from a BOF held in Santa Fe. This Working Group session was very well attended with 97 people! The Group discussed issued of coordination their work with other standard bodies responsible for defining and profiling ATM. The Group discussed several encapsulation proposals, both the use of the currently defined adaptation layers, and a new proposal to put IP or other network protocols directly over ATM. IP over HIPPI BOF (HIPPI) 1 This BOF was called to review a proposal for IP over HIPPI. An Internet Draft has been available. Some minor twiddling was suggested and a new document is expected. Point to Point Protocol Extensions Working Group (PPPEXT) The PPPEXT has submitted the bulk of their work to the IESG and IAB. At this meeting the Group focused on defining and narrowing the scope of a PPP MIB. Work is continuing on defining a LCP for IPX, a LCP for OSI, and a LCP for DECnet. 2