Transition and Coexistence 
                 Including Testing BOF

                        TACIT

                    Wednesday 9:30

                    Geoff Huston
                 Atul Bansal (absent)


Objective

     -    Explore basic deployment
          issues of new Internet
          technology onto the
          established Internet


Procedural Issues:

     -    Testing

     -    Availability

     -    Refinement

     -    Coexistence

     -    Transition


Operational Deployment

     -    Operational management

     -    Service impact management

     -    Product availability

     -    Product support

     -    Legacy impact

Operational Experience with
Transition, Coexistence and
Testing

     -    OSPF
     -    BGP4 CIDR
     -    APPLETALK
     -    DECNET