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Reported by Yakov Rekhter/IBM

BGP Minutes

The Border Gateway Protocol Working Group met on Wednesday.  We
discussed the following Agenda items:


  1. Supporting default route in BGP.
  2. Interaction between OSPF and BGP.
  3. Inter-autonomous system multicast with BGP.
  4. NEXT_HOP_SNPA path attribute.


On (1) it was decided that the default route will be supported in BGP by
announcing net 0.0.0.0.  Support for the default route in BGP is needed
because some of the routers in MILNET have very tight memory
constraints.  We expect to generate a document that will describe
details of how default is supported in BGP, and what are the
implications of generating and accepting detault route propagated via
BGP.

On (2) we discussed the document written by Kannan Varadhan.  John Moy
agreed to pass all the comments produced during the meeting to the
author of the document.  We expect to have an Internet Draft version of
the document before the next IETF.

On (3) Scott Brim agreed to generate an Internet Draft that will
describe a specific approach for inter-AS multicast, and what are the
implications of that approach on BGP.

On (4) we pointed out the need to clarify certain aspects of the
document.  Once clarifications will be in place, the Working Group
recommends to advance the document to a Proposed Internet Standard.

Attendees

Sudhanshu Aggarwal       wlsonu@watson.ibm.com
Nagaraj Arunkumar        nak@3com.com
Helen Bowns              hbowns@bbn.com
Scott Brim               swb@devvax.tn.cornell.edu
Dennis Ferguson          dennis@canet.ca
Susan Hares              skh@merit.edu
Dimitry Haskin           dhaskin@bbn.com
Jeffrey Hoenig           jch@risci.cit.cornell.edu
Kathleen Huber           khuber@bbn.com
Phani Jujjavarapu        phani@cisco.com
Walter Lazear            lazear@gateway.mitre.org
Louis Leon               osll@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu
Mark Lewis               mlewis@telebit.com
Tony Li                  tli@cisco.com

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Matt Mathis              mathis@psc.edu
April Merrill            Merrill@dockmaster.ncsc.mil
Dennis Morris            morrisd@imo-uvax.dca.mil
Charles Perkins          perk@watson.ibm.com
Yakov Rekhter            yakov@ibm.com
Martha Steenstrup        msteenst@bbn.com
Ross Veach               rrv@uiuc.edu
Robert Woodburn          woody@cseic.saic.com



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