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Minutes of the MsgWay-WG meeting at IETF'36 --------------------------
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The meeting was held on Monday, June-24, during IETF36. 

The following agenda was agreed upon:

(1) Name change from "MessageWay" to "PktWay" 

(2) Report on "The MSU UDP Implementation of PktWay (MsgWay)" 
By Thomas McMahon, MSU

(3) "Tentative MSU PacketWay Multicast Strawman Document 
Presentation" 
By Thomas McMahon, MSU

(4) "PktWay Proposed Security Extensions" 
By Robert George, MSU

(1) Name-Change: Danny reported that it was brought to our attention 
that both "MsgWay" and "MessageWay" are registered trademarks of 
Impact-Media, inc. This name is used for some EDI protocol used 
between banks.

The lawyers of Impact-Media are very persisting that we should not 
use that name. Hence, we have to change the name. 

Tony Skjellum proposed "PktWay" and "PacketWay". the MsgWay-
WG agreed to this name change. hence, now we are the PktWay-WG. 

Danny will change the name of the mailing list to be 
<PktWay@myri.com> and Jon will change the name of the its archive. 

Frank will ask the IESG secretary to modify the name in the IESG and 
the IETF files.

(2) Thom McMahon of MSU reported on their implementation of 
PktWay over UDP before implementing it over real SANs such as 
RACEway and Myrinet. 

(3) Thom then presented their tentative PktWay Multicast Strawman. 
Frank and Jon pointed out that this strawman has a lot in common with 
other IETF working groups that also deal with multicast and suggested 
that Thom would review the related work done in the other WGs of the 
IETF.

(4) Bob George of MSU presented proposed security extensions for 
PktWay. Again, Frank and Jon pointed out that this strawman has a lot 
in common with other IETF working groups that also deal with 
multicast and suggested that Bob would review the related work done 
in the other WGs of the IETF.

It was agreed to include in the PktWay document a section about 
security, even though secure-PktWay is an applique over PktWay. 

Bob George will prepare the first draft of this section. Danny will help 
him.

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The next meeting of the PktWay-WG will take place in Dec-96, at 
IETF'37 in beautiful downtown San Jose. Danny will ask ARPA not to 
schedule yet another PI meeting at the same week.

Danny will, by the end of July, issue the next version of the PktWay 
document.