Merit GateD Consortium June Meeting Agenda


  1. BGP Improvements (Sue Hares, Merit)
  2. Route
  3. New Staff & Staff changes
  4. Release Schedule for 1996
  5. Code Improvements 1996
  6. Status on Code Improvements
    1. OSPF rewrite (Laurent Joncheray)
    2. BGP improvements (Sue Hares, Al Rubens)
    3. IS-IS improvements
  7. DPA
  8. MED
  9. Communities
  10. Route Reflection
  11. Route Flapping

  • Test Tools

  • Memory Utilization Issues

  • New Protocol Support

    1. Multicasting Support
      1. PIM spare mode
      2. Policy on interaction between DVMRP, PIM-dense, PIM-spares, CBT
      3. Hierarchical multicasting

    2. IP v6
      1. DHCP
      2. RIP
      3. OSPF or IS-IS
      4. IDRP

    3. ATM related
      1. NARP - NBMA Addresss Resolution Protocol
      2. HNRP - NBMA NEXT Hop Resolution Protocol

  • Merit GateD Business Plan