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Reported by Guy Almes/Rice University

MINUTES

At the IETF meeting at the University of Hawaii, we spent some time
discussing whether to split the Interconnectivity Working Group into two
parts:


   o one group of limited duration that would work on the BGP protocol
     and its usage and deployment, and
   o another ongoing group more concerned with the operational aspects
     of interconnectivity, especially with tuning the routing at major
     connection points in the Internet.


The result of these discussions is that IWG will split, and the protocol
development half will retain the name Interconnectivity Working Group
(and fall within the Routing Area of the IETF), while the other half
will be called the Topology Engineering Working Group and fall within
the Operations Area of the IETF. At the coming IETF at Florida State,
IWG will meet all of Tuesday, and TEWG will take the slot originally
allocated to IWG on Wednesday morning.

ATTENDEES

     Almes, Guy                     almes@rice.edu
     Birger, Chet                    cbirger@bbn.com
     Curci, Raymond                  curci@gw.scri.fsu.edu
     England, Kent                   kwe@bu.edu
     Farinacci, Dino                 dino@bridgw2.3com.com
     Ferguson, Donald                dennis@gw.ccie.utoronto.ca
     Fernandez, Louis                1fernandex@bbn.com
     Fidler, Mike                    ts0026@ohstvma.ircc.ohio-state.edu
     Finkelson, Dale                 dmf@westie.unl.edu
     Fuller, Vince                   fuller@jessica.stanford.edu
     Hahn, Jack                     hahn@umd5.umd.edu
     Hastings, Gene                  hastings@psc.edu
     Hays, Ken                      hays@scri1.scri.fsu.edu
     Honig, Jeffrey C.               sch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
     Jordt, Dan                     danj@cac.washington.edu
     Katz, Dave                     dkatz@merit.edu
     Long, Dan                      long@bbn.com
     Mathis, Matt                    mathis@pele.psc.edu
     O'Leary, Dave                   oleary@umd5.umd.edu
     Pace, Donald                    pace@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
     Rekhter, Yakov                  yakov@ibm.com
     Sheridan, Jim                   jsherida@ibm.com
     Tsuchiya, Paul                  tsuchiya@thumper.bellcore.com

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Veach, Ross                     rrv@uiuc.edu
Winkler, Linda                  b32357@anlvm.ctd.anl.gov
Wintringham, Dan                danw@igloo.osc.edu



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