Internet Area Director(s): o Philip Almquist: almquist@jessica.stanford.edu o Noel Chiappa: jnc@ptt.lcs.mit.edu Area Summary reported by Philip Almquist and Noel Chiappa Four Internet Area working groups met in Santa Fe. The Internet Area also hosted two Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions. o IP over Appletalk (appleip) The Apple-IP Working Group revised their AURP (IP over Appletalk) and MacIP (Appletalk over IP) drafts. The group expects that both of these documents are now finished, but will allow a final comment period before submitting them for standardization. SNMP over Appletalk is ready to be submitted for standardization. Work continues on Appletalk over PPP. Appletalk MIB enhancements are on hold pending further implementation experience. o Multi-Media Bridging (mmb) The Multi-Media Bridge Working Group has been working on a replacement for RFC1042 (IP over 802). This work is intended to better handle the peculiarities of 802.5 yet remain backwards-compatible with RFC1042. The group also continues to consider the problems of bridging dissimilar networks. o Router Requirements (rreq) The Router Requirements Working Group revised and approved a Forwarding Table MIB document and made some minor revisions to the Router Requirements draft. The group's Chair gave a plenary presentation on the Router Requirements draft in anticipation of its imminent completion. The group held a joint session with the IDPR Working Group to ensure that the output of the two groups will be consistent. For similar reasons, some members of the group attended the BGP Working Group's discussions of route leaking between OSPF and BGP. o Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions (pppext) The Working Group decided, based on implementation experience, that some changes to the protocol were needed. In particular, they revised the definitions of the Link Quality Monitoring and IP Address Negotiation facilities. The group also did some work on their PPP Authentication draft. o IP over Asynchronous Transfer Mode BOF (atm) A BOF Chaired by Bob Hinden met to determine whether sufficient interest in ATM networks existed to justify the formation of an IP over ATM Working Group. The answer seemed to be a resounding yes. o Dynamic Creation of Network Links BOF (dncl) Another BOF, Chaired by Andy Nicholson, met to discuss experiments at Cray Research in ``Dynamic Creation of Network Links'' (basically, using switched T3 services to add Internet paths on demand). This BOF has met before, and will probably become a 1 working group. 2