Editor's note: These minutes have not been edited. ROAMING REQUIREMENTS (ROAMREQ) BOF MINUTES, Montreal IETF, 6/28/96 Reported by Bernard Aboba (bernarda@microsoft.com) and Hong Chen (hchen@aimnet.net) Edited by Glen Zorn (glennz@microsoft.com) The IETF Dial-Up Roaming Requirement BOF was initiated by Glen Zorn of Microsoft and held in Montreal on June 28th, 1996. Between 50- 70 people attended the meeting. Why Are You Here? ----------------- The group was asked what interested them about the problem. Several opinions were expressed, including: - an interest in seeing small ISPs being able to offer wider service, and compete with national and international service providers - the desirability of standardized, interoperable implementations - an interest in the use of Virtual Private Networks, based upon generic internet service Strawman Framework ------------------ Bernard Aboba of Microsoft presented a strawman framework for describing the problem. This framework included discussion of phone number presentation, phone number exchange, phone book compilation, phone book update, connection management, authentication, NAS configuration/authorization, security, routing and accounting. Working Group Formation ----------------------- Consensus was reached that the formation of a new working group was appropriate. The proposed WG will be called "roamops". The mailing list will be at roamops@nsmx.rutgers.edu. In addtion, there will be a WWW-accessible archive of relevant documents created (also at Rutgers) to support the initial work of the group (see "Goals and Milestones", below). The WG charter will be produced using the BOF minutes as a guide. Scope of Work ------------- The following items were agreed to be within the initial scope of the proposed Working Group: - Description of existing roaming implementations - Mechanisms for phone book presentation, compilation, update, and exchange - Authentication mechanisms - Cooperation with the NASREQ-NG, Mobile IP and other IETF working groups to identify the issues which need to be addressed by the roamops group (as opposed to issues being worked by other groups) - Interoperability among NAS accounting protocols (probably through a standardized file format). All business issues regarding the operation of an ISP roaming network (such as settlement and billing methods) are specifically NOT in the scope of the roamops WG and will not be discussed. Goals and Milestones -------------------- The group agreed to the following milestones: - a charter ready for submission by 8/1/96. The charter will be created using the minutes for guidance, and will focus on the ISP roaming problem rather than ancillary issues such as integration with tunneling - an Internet-Draft of an Informational RFC describing existing roaming implementations by 9/1/96. Editors for the initial document will be Bernard Aboba (bernarda@microsoft.com), Hong Chen (hchen@aimnet.net), and Alex Latzko (latzko@hardees.rutgers.edu) Miscellaneous ------------- There were 4 volunteers to (co-)chair the new WG (presupposing it is approved): - Glen Zorn (glennz@microsoft.com) - Pat Calhoun (pcalhoun@usr.com) - Kathy Royce (kroyce@baynetworks.com) - Barry Greene (barry@singnet.com.sg)