The Minutes below should be considered a Rough Draft - 4/01/92 Megan

Minutes from Dynamic Creation of Network Links (T3 Circuits) BOF

Reported By Andy Nicholson / Cray Research, Inc.

The documents describing the work done at Cray Research in this area
have been recently published as RFC's, 1306 and 1307.

At this meeting there was an almost total turnover of interested
attendees, but there still seems to be a significant level of interest
in the topic of dynamic control of links.  I had prepared a suggested
scope for work to be done, and was not prepared for a reintroduction
to the material, which was necessary.

After the assembled group was brought up to date on the preceeding
work, and some alternatives were discussed, we agreed that my proposal
was on the right track.  I put this in the form of a problem
statement:

	To develop a standard method of access and control for network
links which are available but not normally active within the internet.

I offered to publish all the previous minutes and references to the
existing documents on the mailing list.  After everyone has had a
chance to refer to this work and begin discussing it, we will be able
to determine if there is reason to form a working group within the
IETF.

I discussed this work with Phil Almquist, the area director, and he
pointed out that anything produced would be best documented as
experimental, as there is not enough experience with this work in the
internet to suggest the adoption of a proposed standard.

Attendees:

Andy Nicholson		droid@cray.com
L. Michael Sabo		sabo@dockmaster.ncsc.mil
Michael Smith		mes5674@hertz.njit.edu
David Borman		dab@cray.com
Dean Cheng		dean@sun2.retix.com
John Lekashman		lekash@nas.nasa.gov
Tom Benkart		tom@acc.com
Brad Steinka		brad@microcom.com
Cindy Bagwell		cbagwell@gateway.mitre.org
Larry Blunk		ljb@merit.edu
Zorica Aramovic		zorica@sparta.com
Allan Ruebens		acr@merit.edu
H. A. Kippenhan		kippenhan@fndcd.fnal.gov
James Watt		jamesw@newbridge.com
Guenter Roeck		roeck@conware.de
Darryl Henry		henryd@imo-uuad.dca.mil
Martha Steenstrup	msteenst@bbn.com
Benny Rodrig		MCI ID 437-3580
Randy Butler		rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Joe Godsil		jgodsil@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Keith Sklower		sklower@cs.berkeley.edu