From: Putzolu, David [david.putzolu@INTEL.COM]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 9:44 AM
To: FORCES@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject: [FORCES] ForCES London Meeting SUmmary

This is a brief summary for ForCES participants who were unable
to attend the ForCES wg meeting held at IETF 51 in London.
The meeting minutes will be published at a later date.

This was the first official meeting of the wg. The first order of
business was a summary changes to the charter made since Minneapolis.
These changes include addition of using an RFC2914 compliant
L4 protocol for transport of ForCES PDUs in the multi-hop scenario
and addition of an applicability statement.

Jamal Hadi Salim presented an informational contribution about Linux
Netlink.  There were concerns about this being a jump into solution
space.  It was clarified that this was relevant prior art but not
intended to be a proposed protocol for ForCES at this point. A sense
of the room was taken and it was decided that this document would be
accepted as an informational contribution to the wg. RFC 2367 was
also mentioned as relevant prior art.

Jamal and Todd Anderson then presented two sets of requirements drafts.
There was significant overlap with divergence on a couple of key points
(most importantly, on the question of whether the FE offers services to the
CE or the CE offers services to the FE). It was agreed that a design team
would be formed to immediately issue a new draft based on the requirements
common to both drafts. This consensus requirements doc will be accepted as
a wg document (pending a brief review on the mailing list). The design team
will continue work on the requirements to resolve the remaining
differences.

Draft URLs:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-salim-netlink-jhshk-00.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-salim-forces-alt-jhs-00.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-anderson-forces-req-01.txt