Re: Fwd: IETF BOF Chicago 1998

[Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk>]

Mail from TAKEI jun (forwarded with permission to ip-dvb list):


> 
> Subject: IPSAT BoF meeting summary
> From: Walid Dabbous <Walid.Dabbous@sophia.inria.fr>
> To: burgan@corp.home.net, ipsat@sophia.inria.fr, narten@raleigh.ibm.com,
>         udlr@sophia.inria.fr
> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 17:03:11 +0200 (MET DST)
> 
> The ipsat BoF was held on Thursday 27th, 13h00-14h50. The goal was to
> discuss issues related to the support of IP over satellite links. One of
> the main topics discussed was the IP over DVB encapsulation mechanism
> developed by the DVB and which will become an ETSI standard. A
> presentation from NTTSC and other participants from the room asked for a
> change in this standard. However, there was no evidence that the lack of
> a MAC source address cannot be solved by other means (filtering at IP
> level). Further discussion on the topic is needed and will be conducted
> on the ipsat@sophia.inria.fr mailing list. Harry Hakulinen from Nokia
> will contact the ETSI people to discuss this issue with them.
> 
> Another topic was the ARP and IGMP support on "large delay" and "large
> fan out" links. These problems were presented with potential
> solutions. There was a feeling that these problems should be dealt with
> in other working groups (multicast routing).
> 
> Further actions concerning this BoF will depend on the discussion on the
> mailing list. If no work item relevant to IETF is identified, no action
> will be taken.
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> 
> P.S. from Jun,
> Ther were very few traffic on the ipsat mailing list. It was only a
> dozen mail in my mailbox. If you want I will pack it and send to you.