OSI General (osigen)

Charter

Chair(s):
     Robert Hagens, hagens@cs.wisc.edu
     Ross Callon, callon@bigfut.enet.dec.com

Mailing Lists:
     General Discussion:  ietf-osi@cs.wisc.edu
     To Subscribe:  ietf-osi-request@cs.wisc.edu
     Archive:  janeb.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/archives/ietf-osi

Description of Working Group:

     Help facilitate the incorporation of the OSI protocol suite
     into the Internet, to operate in parallel with the TCP/IP
     protocol suite.  Facilitate the co-existence and
     interoperability of the TCP/IP and OSI protocol suites.

Goals and Milestones:

Done       Specify an addressing format (from those available from the
           OSI NSAP addressing structure) for use in the Internet.
           Coordinate addressing format with GOSIP version 2 and
           possibly other groups.

TBD        Review the OSI protocol mechanisms proposed for the upcoming
           Berkeley release 4.4.  Coordinate efforts with Berkeley.

TBD        Review GOSIP. Open liaison with Government OSI Users Group
           (GOSIUG) for feedback of issues and concerns that we may
           discover.

TBD        Determine what should be used short-term for (i) intra-domain
           routing; and (ii) inter-domain routing.

TBD        For interoperability between OSI end systems and TCP/IP end
           systems, there will need to be application layer gateways.
           Determine if there are any outstanding issues here.

TBD        Review short-term issues involved in adding OSI gateways to
           the Internet.  Preferably, this should allow OSI and/or dual
           gateways to be present by the time that Berkeley release 4.4
           comes out.



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