CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ The working group met for 3 half-day sessions. The first two were editing sessions for the architecture draft paper that will be out this month. The third was planned as an open informational session, but the open steering group meeting was taking place at the same time and took away our audience. The agenda of the editing session was the last section of the architecture paper: defining the first step in an evolution path to implementing the entire protocol. For the first phase, we chose a simplified virtual gateway protocol in which only two border gateways participate. We discussed the policy gateway to policy gateway protocol which runs among policy gateways inside an Administrative Domain. It was felt that this is an essential protocol for a first phase implementation. The mechanism for disseminating data, including electing a policy gateway spokesman, determining when data should be sent, and the mechanisms for limiting the extent of its flow, were also determined to be essential. A route query would allow experimentation with policy routes and validation without actually implementing the automated part of policy validation, etc. Finally, we discussed a mixed environment, when source routes could be installed at 'tack' points, while the gateways in-between are doing routing as usual. ATTENDEES Marianne Lepp Michael Little Lixia Zhang Noel Chiappa Martha Steenstrup