TCPSAT Summary Report By: Jim Griner (jgriner@lerc.nasa.gov) The TCP over Satellite group met on December 8th at 1PM. Aaron Falk, WG chair presented the WG status, showing the following: (1) The Internet Draft "Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms" has been forwarded to the RFC Editor by the IESG for publication as a BCP. (2) The Internet-Draft "Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites" is now on revision number five, with nearly all sections completed. The schedule is to send it to the IESG in February 99. (3) This was the last meeting of TCPSAT. All discussions concerning TCP over satellites is being moved to the performance implications of link characteristics (pilc) mailing list. The website for pilc is http://pilc.lerc.nasa.gov/pilc. All discussions on TCP spoofing and splitting connections are being moved to the tcppep mailing list. The website for tcppep is http://tcppep.lerc.nasa.gov/tcppep. However, the TCPSAT mailing list will remain active. Mark Allman, document editor, presented a brief summary of new sections added to the research issues draft. No new sections are being solicited for the draft. Plans are to have all editing done in mid-January, and submission to the IESG in mid-February. Jim Griner, NASA Lewis, announced an Internet-Draft is available, which defined terminology used in discussions about TCP performance enhancing proxies. draft-griner-tcppep-term-00.txt Rohit Goyal, Ohio State University, presented an overview of the Internet-Draft Optimizing TCP over Satellite ATM Networks, draft-goyal-tcpsat-tcpatm-00.txt. Aaron raised the question as to whether the TCPSAT group wanted to request a charter change that would allow the TCP over ATM over satellite work to be completed in the WG. Many think technical articles should be written about this issue, but that it is not within the IETF scope. There did not seem to be consensus or WG energy to take on this additional document.