Editor's note: These minutes have not been edited. IETF'37: PacketWay- WG Minutes ------------------------------ The PacketWay working group met at IETF'37 in San Jose on Wednesday, December 11. There were about 17 attenders [see attached list]. Danny Cohen opened the meeting with a PacketWay overview and the meeting agenda. Robert George (of Mississippi State University, MSU) gave a presentation of the work they have been doing on the implementation of PacketWay and the Secure extensions to PacketWay. Currently MSU is supporting two different underlying transport protocols: Myrinet and UDP. In the future, MSU plans to extend this support to RACEway and the Avalon link. MSU will demonstrate interoperability of PktWay between clusters using Myrinet, RACEway, and Avalon links. Nathan Doss (of Lockheed-Martin-Sanders) gave a presentation on the work Sanders is doing on a second implementation of PacketWay. This work involves Sanders's two-level high-performance multi-computer testbed. It is intended that the two PacketWay implementations (MSU and Sanders) be interconnected to demonstrate interoperability. Thom McMahon (of MSU) gave a presentation of the preliminary work MSU is doing in adding multicast capability to the base PacketWay specification. The group then discussed what steps we should be taking to move PacketWay forward on the IETF standardization path. It was agreed that Danny should reissue the PacketWay specification with just the core features (Levels A through C, without Level-D, the dynamic route discovery). This separation is motivated by the initial implementations that cover only Levels A through C, without Level-D. This document would then be submitted (in January?) to the IETF for release at the "proposed standard" level. The next step would be to receive IETF-wide scrutiny of the document and complete the two-implementation interoperability demonstration. These efforts should lead to "draft standard" status within the year. Separately, dynamic-route-discovery, the Secure PacketWay, and the PktWay-Multicast extensions should be refined and entered onto the standardization path as independent additions to the core PktWay specifications (similarly to the way IP is augmented by similar protocols). Recorded by: Fred Shirley ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ATTENDANTS LIST PktWay-WG, IETF'37, Dec-11-1996 Name Organization E-address <01> Danny Cohen Myricom <02> Craig Lund Mercury <03> Vince Laviano George Mason Univ. <04> Lava K. Lavu George Mason Univ. <05> Fred Shirley Sanders <06> Robert George MSU <07> Thom McMahon MSU <08> Glenn McGuire Cross Comm <09> Phil Irey NSWC <10> Mark Pullen GMU <11> Jim Barnes Baynetworks <12> Guevthu Schmuelling Pyramid <13> Seshadri Srinivasan Pyramid <14> Scott Wasson Whittaker Xyplex <15> Jon Postel USC/ISI <16> Nathan Doss Sanders <17> Frank Kastenholtz FTP Software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [end]