CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Gary Malkin/FTP Software RIPV2 BOF Minutes Agenda o Review Internet Draft These are the proposed changes. Note that backward compatibility with RIP-I is maintained in all cases. The 2-byte Must Be Zero (MBZ) field following the family will contain an AS number. Details are TBD (when I find someone who understands IGP/EGP interactions). Authentication will be supported. If the first RIP entry in the packet has a family of -1, then the two bytes following the family will indicate the type of authentication. Only plain-text password will be defined for now. It will operate as OSPF does and will use the remaining 16 bytes (or fraction thereof). The remaining MBZ field will be split into 2 2-byte fields: MTU and linkspeed. These will NOT be used for routing; just for information by hosts which snoop RIP packets. The linkspeed will be encoded, in some TBD fashion, since 16 bits is insufficient for LAN speeds. There are additional issues which must be discussed. They include: subsuming of routes, and route leaking. Attendees Philip Almquist almquist@jessica.stanford.edu Mary Artibee artibee@sgi.com Art Berggreen art@acc.com Ronald Broersma ron@nosc.mil Philip Budne phil@shiva.com Dean Cheng dean@sunz.retix.com J. Noel Chiappa jnc@lcs.mit.edu Kurt Dobbins dobbins@ctron.com Michael Karels karels@berkeley.edu Holly Knight holly@apple.com Tony Li tli@cisco.com Gary Malkin gmalkin@ftp.com Frank Solensky solensky@clearpoint.com William Townsend townsend@xylogics.com Scott Wasson Jonathan Wenocur jhw@shiva.com Jessica Yu jyy@merit.edu 1