Scott Bradner and Allison Mankin, Co-Area Directors October 1993
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IPNG Area Report

     sob@harvard.edu
     mankin@cmf.nrl.navy.mil

The IPNG Area is a temporary area in the IESG charged with
managing the "IP the next generation" process.  
This is the first of area reports we will issue approximately
monthly to keep the IETF informed about our progress.

We will give a presentation describing the Area and the
IPng process that we will be pursuing.  This is scheduled for 
Monday morning of the Houston IETF.  We will make the 
announcement of the directorate membership before then
(soon), and we hope that many of the directorate
members will be around during that plenary session.  A 60 minute
time period is reserved for questions and discussion following 
the presentation.  Following the question session will be 10-minute
updates on each of the IPng proposals.

We invited a group of internetters to meet with us for an 
"advice meeting".  This took place at SIGCOMM, in San Francisco,
on September 17.  The purpose of this IPNG meeting
was to give us a kind of focus group, to let us discuss the
IPNG area and the potential IPNG directorate informally and in
a preliminary manner.  The group that met was purposely not an
early version of the IPNG directorate, nor was the
meeting conducted in as structured a way as we expect of
the directorate meetings, i.e. no minutes were taken.

Several results came from this meeting:

-  The directorate should not include IESG or IAB members.

-  An IETF WG, Address Lifetime Expectations (ALE), was formed,
   whose mission is to quantify the lifetime of internet
   address space.  Frank Solensky will chair.

-  Our generalized task is to develop a plan for the
   Internet future--it will have milestones at different
   times depending on the actual growth that occurs.

The participants were:

Scott Bradner, Harvard University
Ross Callon, Wellfleet
Jon Crowcroft, University College London
John Curran, NEARnet
Steve Deering, Xerox PARC
Paul Francis, Bellcore
Dave Katz, Cisco
Tony Li, Cisco
Allison Mankin, Naval Research Lab
Greg Minshall, Novell
Craig Partridge, BBN/Stanford University
Frank Solensky, FTP Software
Lixia Zhang, Xerox PARC

The agenda we started with follows:

draft agenda - IPng think session Sept. 17 1993

introductions

review charge to IPng area

additions to charge?

mergermania
    SIPP...

white papers
    < 10 page views from various people
    on IPng proposals & views of problems
    Noel, John Curran, TUBA, SIPP ...


FYI for the community:  IPng area procedures
    directorate meetings
           on and off record (minutes or not)
        telechats
        face to face
            at ietf
            special meetings
    mailing list
        public vs private
        archives

standards sequence
    advance all to experimental when ready
    after decision, advance one onto track as recommended
               (move to required eventually?)
        after delay, others can move to elective
        parts can move to recommended if good AS

directorate issues/suggestions
    how about IESG members?

what WGs are needed? chair suggestions, warnings
    CIDR issues
        who knows BSD code?
    address assignment procedures
    var length subnets
    timeframe
    scope
    criteria
    decide

consensus building/outreach

factors to look at if the sky is not falling
    flow 
    congestion
    accounting
    security
    advanced policies
    
presentation at IETF in Nov.

report to ietf mailing list?