LYNCH@USC-ISIB.ARPA.UUCP (05/27/86)
The Internet Activities Board (IAB), in cooperation with DARPA, will
hold a TCP/IP Vendors Workshop from 25-27 August, 1986 in
Monterey, California. The purpose of the workshop is to bring
together the designers of the TCP/IP protocol suite with the
implementors of those protocols in the commercial marketplace to go
over the meaning of the current protocols and planned future
extensions. The workshop will begin with presentations by experts
from the research community on the current status of ARPANET and DDN's
MILNET, future directions of research, gateway issues, and on
migration to ISO standards. Then the workshop will shift into a
series of sessions on specific topics (as listed below) that will
begin with a statement of known open issues on each topic followed by
questions from the implementors for each other or for the the experts.
Some sessions topics will undoubtedly need more time than others and
topics that have been left out will be accomodated as they arise.
Session Topics::
Specifications and Testing: ULANA, Testing/Certification, Assigned
Numbers, Official Protocols
Files: FTP, TFTP
Mail: SMTP, User Mail Agents, MMM, X.400.
Telnet: Telnet, Telnet Options
Transactions: Domain Names, Remote Procedure Calls
Transport: TCP, Retransmission, UDP
Network: IP, ICMP, Fragmentation, Security, Precedence (TOS), Gateways
(EGP, GGP, IGP), Routing, Subnetting
Data Link: ARP, RARP, Address Mapping
Physical: 1822, X.25, Ethernet, Token Ring, Token Bus, Satellite,
Packet Radio
One of the results of the workshop will be an indication of the need
for further such workshops or perhaps some other format for exchanging
information amongst the multitude of participants in the TCP/IP arena.
The list that follows is comprised of companies that are believed to
be heavily involved with commercial products in the TCP/IP
marketplace.
To obtain an invitation to this workshop please contact the Workshop
Chair, Dan Lynch. I may be reached at Lynch@USC-ISIB.ARPA or at
408-996-2042. We plan on having two attendees from each company (or
separate divisions in some cases) and want to have attendees who are
prepared to discuss in detail their implementation problems and
suggestions for solutions. If you know of companies that are missing from
this list please let me know of them. If you are a customer of commercial
TCP/IP products and would like to make sure that your Vendor(s)
participate in this workshop please let them know how much you care.
ACC, Alliant, Amdahl, Apple, Applitek, Apollo, AT&T, BBN, BDM, Bridge,
Burroughs, CDC, Cisco, Computer Network Technology, CMC, Convergent,
Convex, Cray, CSC, Data General, Datapoint, DEC, Encore, Elxsi,
Excelan, Ford Aerospace, Fortune, Frontier Technologies, FTP Inc.,
Gould, Honeywell, HP, IBM, Imagen, Intel, Interlan (Micom), Internet
Systems Corp., Kinetics, LMI, Locus, Mitre, NCR, Network Research
(Oxnard), Network Research (Salt Lake), Network Solutions, NSC,
Panda Programming, Perkin-Elmer (now called Concurrent Computing),
Plexus, Prime, Process Software, Proteon, Pyramid, QMI, Ridge, SAI,
Scope, SDC, Softsel, Spartacus, Sperry, SRI, Sun, Symbolics, Sytek,
Tandem, Tektronix, TI, 3Com, Ungermann-Bass, Uniq, Unisoft, Vitalink,
Wollongong, Xerox.
-------braden@ISI-BRADEN.ARPA.UUCP (05/27/86)
Dan, I don't understand the inclusion of a generic topic "Transactions" or a specific topic "Remote Procedure Call". There is no current or proposed Internet standard in that area... it is being treated as a (quasi-) research topic, which will hopefully lead to a proposed standard at some future time. The domain system deserves to have a major topic all to itself. Bob Braden
MRC%PANDA@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (Mark Crispin) (05/30/86)
Hi -
You can include Panda Programming as being interested in
attending this workshop. Our stuff is mostly applications (esp.
mail), and we're *very* interested in the X.400 issues, etc.
We're also interested in gateway issues and the threatened
migration from TCP to TP4.
-- Mark --
-------LYNCH@USC-ISIB.ARPA (Dan Lynch) (05/30/86)
Great, Mark. You'll get a packet in about a month. Thanks, Dan -------