CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Fred Baker/Vitalink PPPEXT Minutes Point to Point MIB: Discussion ensued on statistics per protocol, per interface. Is there duplication of objects, or a breakage of precedent? The general feeling was that there is need for counts by protocol, precedent or not, and that only some protocols are duplicated elsewhere. Therefore the MIB should contain counts by protocol. AppleTalk: Frank Slaughter and Steve Senum have differing approaches to Appletalk. Frank's includes a reduced overhead routing information transfer protocol. They are to coalesce their documents and put them up to the list. Decnet IV: At first blush, it would appear that Art Harvey and Steve Senum have dueling documents; however, this appears to be related to several miscommunications. Art is willing to see Steve's document, given certain modifications, as the standard. There are a number of problems with the use of timers in the protocol, resulting primarily from Digital's assumption that a reliable protocol such as LAPB is in use on the line. This will cause problems on unreliable links. A General Note: Large interest is reported for Point-to-Point Host to Router implementations over a dial interface. This, according to Vicki Ralls, is most of the interest cisco has seen in the protocol. The general feeling toward Art Harvey's proposal for SNAP over Point-to-Point, is that there is no overriding reason to stop the document. We should therefore, let it become a standard for generalized use of the link. Bridge Protocol Fred Baker submitted an alternative approach to bridge use of the link. This was generally considered superior to the approach requested by the Pittsburg IETF attendees. A document will be published. Attendees 1 Fred Baker baker@vitalink.com Tracy Cox tacox@sabre.bellcore.com Dino Farinacci dino@buckeye.esd.3com.com Dennis Ferguson dennis@gw.ccie.utoronto.ca Craig Fox foxcj@nsco.network.com Russell Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu Ken Jones uunet!konkord!ksj David Kashtan Frank Kastenholz kasten@europa.interlan.com Kathy Kerby kkerby@bbn.com Tony Lauck lauck@tl.dec.com Solomon Liou solomon%penril@uunet.uu.net John LoVerso loverso@xylogics.com Alan Menezes afm@cup.portal.com Vicki Ralls ralls@cisco.com Michael Reilly reilly@nsl.dec.com Steve Senum sjs@network.com Frank Slaughter fgs@shiva.com Glenn Trewitt trewitt@nsl.dec.com 2