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["Andrew G. Malis" <malis@nexen.com>]

Summary, Routing Over Large Clouds Working Group
Andy Malis, Chair
Dallas IETF Meeting, December 4-8, 1995

The ROLC working group met in two sessions, on Monday 12/4 at 09:30 and
Tuesday 12/5 at 15:30, with about 145 attendees.

In the first session, the ROLC and IP/ATM chairs presented a joint
statement that ATMARP will transition to NHRP in well-defined steps that
emphasize interoperability with the installed base.  The ROLC WG asked that
references to NHRP be removed from the IP/ATM Classic2 draft.  Several NHRP
specification issues were discussed, especially with regard to
harmonization with the IP/ATM MARS specification.  Several changes were
made to the NHRP specification, and in one case, a corresponding change was
also made in the MARS spec.  The WG began to discuss server redundancy and
synchronization issues; further discussion will be moved to the mailing
list.  There was consensus that server redundancy must be addressed before
NHRP is ready for prime time, although the WG hopes to be able to leverage
the redundancy work in the IP/ATM working group.  Client autoconfiguration
was also discussed, based upon the use of configuration servers.

In the second session, the WG agreed upon a joint ROLC and IP/ATM liaison
to the ATM Forum.  The liaison includes two sections, one suggesting
leveraging the LANE configuration server for IETF uses, the second asking
for LAN Emulation Configuration Server redundancy.  There were four
presentations.  Following Yakov Rehkter's Local/Remote presentation, the WG
agreed to forward his APR draft as an informational RFC.  As a result of
Hiroshi Suzuki's Mobile NHRP presentation, the WG agreed to include
registration forwarding in the NHRP spec.  Rob Coltun presented his
approach to ATMARP and NHRP coexistence.  The WG agreed to use Yakov
Rehkter's Router-Router NHRP presentation as the basis for future work;
Yakov will be documenting it in a forthcoming Internet Draft.  The WG
discussed changes to the charter and workplan, this discussion will be
continued on the mailing list.  The WG expects to again meet for two
sessions at the LA IETF.

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