Subject: DLSw BOF Scheduled

From: "Shannon Nix" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 08:40:22

Hi,
     
     I have been in touch with Stev Knowles of the IETF requesting that we 
     be allowed to hold a BOF in Seattle for the purpose of establishing an 
     IETF working group to work jointly with the AIW to advance DLSw as an 
     IETF standard (whew!).  His comments:
     
     1.  The two bodies (AIW and IETF) need to discuss and agree on change  
        control procedures.
     
     2.  We need to articulate why our NetBIOS encapsulation is not         
         reinventing the work already completed in RFC a thousand an        
         something (1003?), which defines an encapsulation technique for
         NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
     
     I have scheduled the following meeting time in Seattle.  Please let me 
     know if you or someone from your companies will be attending.
     
     Tue., March 29: 0930-1200
     
       [APP]  TELNET WG 
       [MGT]  Network Management Area: Open Meeting 
     ->[INT]  Data Link Switching BOF 
       [IPNG] TCP/UDP over CLNP-addressed Networks WG 
       [RTG]  New Internet Routing and Addressing Architecture BOF 
       [SAP]  DNS Security WG
       [TSV]  Multiparty Multimedia Session Control WG 
       [USV]  Network Information Services Infrastructure WG 

     Regards, Shannon

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 15:53:12 PST

Shannon -

    Thanks for getting the DLSw BOF scheduled for us.  I have some
    comments about conflict with existing RFCs.  Also, glad it is early
    in the week :-).

Wayne

>         something (1003?), which defines an encapsulation technique for

    As I understand it, the work done in RFC 1001 and 1002 are for
    using TCP/IP as the transport of NetBIOS from the end systems.
    This is what products from HP and (according to recent press)
    Microsoft do.  If NetBIOS is encapsulated inside TCP/IP from the
    end systems, then a router just sees IP packets and DLSw is
    irrelevant.

    Therefore, DLSw is not reinventing anything here.