CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Martha Steenstrup/BBN IDPR Minutes The Inter-Domain Policy Routing Working Group (formerly the Open Routing Working Group) met for three of the five days during the December IETF meeting in Boulder. IDPR Working Group meetings were organized into two sections: a full-day tutorial and two days of discussions of future work. The purpose of the tutorial was to provide an overview of the IDPR work for those people new to the Working Group and to update present Working Group members on the current state of affairs. Tutorial material covered the IDPR architecture, protocols, prototype implementation, and progress on network experiments. The future work discussions centered around two distinct areas: what is needed for IDPR to become an Internet standard and what research topics should we pursue beyond IDPR Version 1. The most controversial of the standard-related issues was addressing: should we introduce a standard with our own addressing scheme or should we wait for the Internet community to resolve the current Internet addressing problems? The research areas proposed included but were not limited to the following: 1. Develop good heuristics to increase the efficiency of route generation; 2. Explore multicast and multipath routing mechanisms for incorporation into IDPR; 3. Determine the best ways to use the distributed, hierarchical database of IDPR connectivity and policy information; 4. Expand policy-based routing to the more general area of policy-based resource allocation, including resource reservation and flow control. We are now trying to determine which topics need the most attention and who will work on them. Anyone interested in learning more about IDPR should subscribe to the IDPR mailing list idpr-wg@bbn.com. Attendees 1 Scott Brim swb@devvax.tn.cornell.edu Gregory Bruell gob@shiva.com Ken Carlberg carlberg@sparta.com Chunhsiang Cheng Dino Farinacci dino@esd.3com.com J. Joaquin Garcia-Luna garcia@sri.com Chris Gunner gunner@osicwg.enet.dec.com Tony Hain alh@eagle.es.net Susan Hares skh@merit.edu Jeffrey Honig jch@devvax.tn.cornell.edu Kathleen Huber khuber@bbn.com Alex Koifman akoifman@bbn.com Louise Laier appleLink@laier1 Manoel Rodrigues manoel.rodrigues@att.com Ken Schroder schroder@bbn.com Mark Seger seger@asds.enet.dec.com Daisy Shen daisy@ibm.com Tony Staw staw@marvin.enet.dec.com Martha Steenstrup msteenst@bbn.com Jonathan Wenocur jhw@shiva.com Jil Westcott Westcott@BBN.COM 2