CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by Jeff Fitzgerald/Fibercom, Inc.

MMB Minutes

The Multi-Media Bridge Working Group met twice at the Boulder IETF. The
first meeting was spent reviewing the Charter which was subsequently
approved and published.

The second meeting was spent reviewing the Multi-Media Bridge Technology
and its impact on the TCP/IP architecture.  A general review of the
bridging standard (IEEE document 802.1d) was made and the following
issues were raised to be addressed by the Working Group:


   o Differing MTU sizes among different media types.
   o Differing Bit/Byte ordering problems - especially with respect to
     datalink addresses.


The group then reviewed the following RFC's;


   o RFC 1042 (IP over 802 Networks)
   o RFC 1188 (IP over FDDI)
   o RFC 1191 (Path MTU Discovery)


It was felt that these documents have laid the foundation for the future
work of the group.  At the next meeting the group will begin to address
an appropriate strategy for 802.5 networks.

Attendees

Anne Ambler              anne@spider.co.uk
Fred Baker               fbaker@acc.com
Ken Brinkerhoff
Caralyn Brown            cbrown@ENR.Prime.com
Stewart Bryant           bryant@enet.dec.com
Chris Chiotasso          chris@roswell.spartacus.com
Avri Doria               avri@clearpoint.com
Jeffrey Fitzgerald       jjf@fibercom.com
Richard Fox              sytek!rfox@sun.com
Jim Kinder               jdk@fibercom.com

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Stev Knowles             stev@ftp.com
Richard Libby            libby@c10sd6.stpaul.ncr.com
Robert Meierhofer        meierhofer@stpaul.ncr.com
Bahaa Moukadam
Ray Samora               rvs@proteon.com
Steven Sherry            shsherry@eneg.xyplex.com
Osamu Takada             takada@sdl.hitachi.co.jp



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