CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Yakov Rekhter/IBM BGP Minutes The Border Gateway Protocol Working Group met on Wednesday. We discussed the following Agenda items: 1. Supporting default route in BGP. 2. Interaction between OSPF and BGP. 3. Inter-autonomous system multicast with BGP. 4. NEXT_HOP_SNPA path attribute. On (1) it was decided that the default route will be supported in BGP by announcing net 0.0.0.0. Support for the default route in BGP is needed because some of the routers in MILNET have very tight memory constraints. We expect to generate a document that will describe details of how default is supported in BGP, and what are the implications of generating and accepting detault route propagated via BGP. On (2) we discussed the document written by Kannan Varadhan. John Moy agreed to pass all the comments produced during the meeting to the author of the document. We expect to have an Internet Draft version of the document before the next IETF. On (3) Scott Brim agreed to generate an Internet Draft that will describe a specific approach for inter-AS multicast, and what are the implications of that approach on BGP. On (4) we pointed out the need to clarify certain aspects of the document. Once clarifications will be in place, the Working Group recommends to advance the document to a Proposed Internet Standard. Attendees Sudhanshu Aggarwal wlsonu@watson.ibm.com Nagaraj Arunkumar nak@3com.com Helen Bowns hbowns@bbn.com Scott Brim swb@devvax.tn.cornell.edu Dennis Ferguson dennis@canet.ca Susan Hares skh@merit.edu Dimitry Haskin dhaskin@bbn.com Jeffrey Hoenig jch@risci.cit.cornell.edu Kathleen Huber khuber@bbn.com Phani Jujjavarapu phani@cisco.com Walter Lazear lazear@gateway.mitre.org Louis Leon osll@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu Mark Lewis mlewis@telebit.com Tony Li tli@cisco.com 1 Matt Mathis mathis@psc.edu April Merrill Merrill@dockmaster.ncsc.mil Dennis Morris morrisd@imo-uvax.dca.mil Charles Perkins perk@watson.ibm.com Yakov Rekhter yakov@ibm.com Martha Steenstrup msteenst@bbn.com Ross Veach rrv@uiuc.edu Robert Woodburn woody@cseic.saic.com 2