March 2009 DTNRG Meeting Notes

DTNRG met at Google on March 19th and 20th and had a 1-hour slot at the subsequent IETF meeting on March 24th where we summarised on the 2-day meeting.

Information about the meeting (agenda, attendee list, logistics, raw meeting notes) is available at: http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/dtnrg-at-google/ The agenda and slides from the IETF slot are at http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/DTNRG.txt and http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/slides/DTNRG-0.pdf.

• We reviwed each of the documents that are in "RG last call." See the raw meeting notes for details. Most of the documents had some follow-up required, which'll happen on the dtn-interest list. We really want to finish up that set of documents in the next month or so, since we have so many documents on the go.
• IANA considerations: We agreed that we should request IANA registries for various BP related things (block types, error codes, ciphersuites...). Since RFC 5050 didn't do that, Elwyn Davies volunteered to write up an IANA considerations draft for the BP block types registry. That'll have to proceeed before, or along with, each of the drafts that define specific values, each of which should then have an IANA consideration requesting a new entry in the relevant registry. That draft should also request a registry for BP error codes. The initial request for the ciphesuites should probably go into the BSP draft. We didn't establish a consensus for the update rules, but the suggestion that we use "expert review" with the dtn-interest list and/or the RG chairs as the experts seemed to be a good starting point.
• Since PRoPHET is now on the cusp of being done, we noted that it'd be good to get some other DTN routing schemes documented in I-D form, since otherwise we might be giving an impression that PRoPHET is the only way to do DTN routing. Some folks volunteered to write up routing schemes. They should just do that by (in the first instance) creating individual submission drafts that the RG can then adopt.
• We had an extended discussion of naming which resulted in a few, hopefully compatible, proposals. Some people (Scott, Joerg, Avri, Kevin, David Young) agreed to quickly write up an initial I-D specifying a URI syntax for the dtn: scheme that the RG can then discuss on the list.
• We discussed how to encourage people to make use of the DTNbone and various people agreed to setup nodes and connect to that. We would especially welcome new applications to run over that network.
• We agreed to do another round of DTN interoperability testing at the time of the Stockholm IETF. That may also involve some remote testing, probably based at BBN, in addition to the people who actually attend the IETF meeting. The term "disconnectathon" was coined for this event:-) Joerg, Andrew, Dan and Will Leland agreed to kick off discussion of arrangements for that.
• We had various other presentations, see http://down.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/dtnrg-at-google/ for slides.