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Reported by Zbigniew Kielczewski/Eicon Technology

Minutes of the SNA Peer-to-Peer Networking BOF (SNAPPER)

The SNAPPER BOF was held on April 1st in Columbus (Ohio) during the 26th
IETF meeting and was chaired by Wayne Clark.

Agenda


   o Introduction
   o Presentations:
      -  Connection Networks
      -  Data Link Switching
      -  APPN TCP/IP
      -  APPN, DLS and Connection Networks
      -  APPI
   o Discussion


Wayne Clark made all technical presentations and led the discussion.

The suggestion was made that it could be important and interesting to
work on the standard way of transporting APPN over IP. One of the
propositions was the DLS specification which could become the object of
future IETF work.

The issue of coordination of efforts to merge APPN and APPI technologies
was raised.  It was clear from statements of interested parties that
this effort involves not only technical issues but also political ones,
and the IETF would not be able to solve those complicated problems.

A second proposal was that all interested people could work on the
standardization of the Data Link Switching which presents more promising
and realistic targets.  The APPN versus APPI issues should not be
directly addressed by this work but both involved parties should be
present and contribute to the work.  The consensus was that this
proposition could be used to form the Working Group.

Wayne will submit a draft Working Group Charter to the SNAPPER mailing
list for discussion.

Attendees

Philip Almquist          almquist@jessica.stanford.edu
William Barns            barns@gateway.mitre.org
Fred Bohle               fab@interlink.com
John Chang               jrc@uswest.com
George Clapp             clapp@ameris.center.il.ameritech.com
Wayne Clark              wclark@cisco.com

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Kurt Dobbins             kurtdob@ctron.com
Roger Fajman             raf@cu.nih.gov
Cleve Graves             cvgpc@oc.com
Ken Hayward              Ken.Hayward@bnr.ca
Don Hofacker             hofacker@dtedi.hq.aelc.af.mil
David Jacobson           dnjake@vnet.ibm.com
Zbigniew Kielczewski     zbig@eicon.qc.ca
Deirdre Kostick          dck2@sabre.bellcore.com
Padma Krishnaswamy       kri@sabre.bellcore.com
Tony Li                  tli@cisco.com
Baktha Muralidharan      murali@smaug.enet.dec.com
Rina Nathaniel           rina!rnd!rndi@uunet.uu.net
John Tavs                tavs@vnet.ibm.com
Stephen Tsun             snt@3com.com
Hung Vu                  hungv@fonorola.com
James Watt               james@newbridge.com
Les Wibberley            lhw24@cas.org
Douglas Williams         dougw@ralvmg.vnet.ibm.com



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