CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Russ Hobby/UC Davis MINUTES The PPP WG met on October 31 and November 1 at the IETF meeting at the University of Hawaii. This was the last meeting of the working group, however, further work on PPP will be done by a new working group to define extensions to PPP such as new options and the use of other protocols on PPP. During video conferences following the Stanford meeting the PPP document was split into two separate documents. The first is a base PPP document describing the packet encapsulation and the process for control and option negotiation for the link and IP, but does not describe the options themselves. The second document describes the options for the Link Control Protocol (LCP) and the IP Control Protocol (IPCP). This document also describes a simple authentication method that can be used when bringing up the link and a means of doing link quality monitoring (formally keep-alives) of the link during operation. Final editing of the first document was done and it was submitted for review as an RFC. The working group reviewed the second document to clear up any technical details but put most the emphasis on the method of Link Quality Monitoring (LQM). The details of (LQM) where discussed and agreed upon and would be written into the second document after the meeting. Both the base document as it was submitted to be an RFC and the second document are being submitted as Internet Drafts for public review. Areas in need of further work are: 1. Stronger Authentication Protocols 2. Definition of encryption methods 3. Definition of the use of other high level protocols As a beginning of the new extensions WG, members volunteered to write definitions for the use of bridging, DECNET (Phase IV and V), and XNS over PPP. ATTENDEES This is a consolidated attendee list for the meetings of Tuesday and Wednesday. Arnold, Susan Knowles, Stev Baker, Fred LoVerso, John R. Berggreen, Art Mamakos, Louis A. Boivie, Rick McKenney, Paul E. Broersma, Ron Melohn, Bill Carvalho, Charles Opalka, Zbigniew Catlett, Charlie Reilly, Michael Chiappa, Noel Schoch, Steven Farinacci, Dino Westfield, Bill 3