CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Zbigniew Kielczewski/Eicon Technology Minutes of the SNA Peer-to-Peer Networking BOF (SNAPPER) The SNAPPER BOF was held on April 1st in Columbus (Ohio) during the 26th IETF meeting and was chaired by Wayne Clark. Agenda o Introduction o Presentations: - Connection Networks - Data Link Switching - APPN TCP/IP - APPN, DLS and Connection Networks - APPI o Discussion Wayne Clark made all technical presentations and led the discussion. The suggestion was made that it could be important and interesting to work on the standard way of transporting APPN over IP. One of the propositions was the DLS specification which could become the object of future IETF work. The issue of coordination of efforts to merge APPN and APPI technologies was raised. It was clear from statements of interested parties that this effort involves not only technical issues but also political ones, and the IETF would not be able to solve those complicated problems. A second proposal was that all interested people could work on the standardization of the Data Link Switching which presents more promising and realistic targets. The APPN versus APPI issues should not be directly addressed by this work but both involved parties should be present and contribute to the work. The consensus was that this proposition could be used to form the Working Group. Wayne will submit a draft Working Group Charter to the SNAPPER mailing list for discussion. Attendees Philip Almquist almquist@jessica.stanford.edu William Barns barns@gateway.mitre.org Fred Bohle fab@interlink.com John Chang jrc@uswest.com George Clapp clapp@ameris.center.il.ameritech.com Wayne Clark wclark@cisco.com 1 Kurt Dobbins kurtdob@ctron.com Roger Fajman raf@cu.nih.gov Cleve Graves cvgpc@oc.com Ken Hayward Ken.Hayward@bnr.ca Don Hofacker hofacker@dtedi.hq.aelc.af.mil David Jacobson dnjake@vnet.ibm.com Zbigniew Kielczewski zbig@eicon.qc.ca Deirdre Kostick dck2@sabre.bellcore.com Padma Krishnaswamy kri@sabre.bellcore.com Tony Li tli@cisco.com Baktha Muralidharan murali@smaug.enet.dec.com Rina Nathaniel rina!rnd!rndi@uunet.uu.net John Tavs tavs@vnet.ibm.com Stephen Tsun snt@3com.com Hung Vu hungv@fonorola.com James Watt james@newbridge.com Les Wibberley lhw24@cas.org Douglas Williams dougw@ralvmg.vnet.ibm.com 2