Internet Monthly Report for April 1999 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following 17 Protocol Actions during the month of April, 1999: o URN Namespace Definition Mechanisms for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Reserved Top Level DNS Names for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o RADIUS Accounting Client MIB for publication as an Informational RFC. o RADIUS Accounting Server MIB for publication as an Informational RFC. o Script MIB Extensibility Protocol Version 1.0 for publication as an Informational RFC. o An API for Service Location for publication as an Informational RFC. o Service Location Protocol, Version 2 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Service Templates and service: Schemes for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IP and ARP over Fibre Channel for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RADIUS Authentication Client MIB for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RADIUS Authentication Server MIB for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Non-Terminal DNS Name Redirection for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switch Networks Version 1.0 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol for publication as a Proposed Standard. o NFS Version 2 and Version 3 Security Issues and the NFS Protocol's Use of RPCSEC_GSS and Kerberos V5' for publication as a Proposed Standard. 2. 15 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of April, 1999: o Assignment Procedures for the URI Resolution using DNS (RFC2168) for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Changing the Default for Directed Broadcasts in Routers for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Form-based Device Input in HTML for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. o Proxy Chaining and Policy Implementation in Roaming for consideration as an Informational RFC. o The Text/Plain Format Parameter for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) DNS Resource Record for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o PPP over SONET/SDH for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A Link Layer Tunneling Mechanism for Unidirectional Links for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Cable Device Management Information Base for DOCSIS compliant Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Radio Frequency (RF) Interface Management Information Base for MCNS/DOCSIS compliant RF interfaces for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for PureVoice(tm) Audio for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 5. Two new working groups were created Performance Implications of Link Characteristics (pilc) Reliable Multicast Transport (rmt) o And 2 working groups were concluded: QoS Routing (qosr) Uninterruptible Power Supply (upsmib) 6. There were 187 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of April, 1999: (atommib) o Definitions of Tests for ATM Management (rsvp) o RSVP Diagnostic Messages (ifmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for System and Interface Testing (issll) o Providing integrated services over low-bitrate links (pppext) o Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) (rsvp) o RSVP Operation Over IP Tunnels (ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) (issll) o The Multi-Class Extension to Multi-Link PPP (none) o Universal Format for Logger Messages (ftpext) o Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service (none) o Definition of the inetOrgPerson LDAP Object Class (rtfm) o RTFM Working Group - New Attributes for Traffic Flow Measurement (ion) o NHRP for Destinations off the NBMA Subnetwork (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB (run) o DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*) (avt) o Real-Time Transport Protocol Management Information Base (none) o QoS Routing Mechanisms and OSPF Extensions (issll) o PPP in a real-time oriented HDLC-like framing (urn) o URN Namespace Definition Mechanisms (calsch) o Calendar attributes for vCard and LDAP (issll) o Integrated Services Mappings for Low Speed Networks (urn) o A URN Namespace for IETF Documents (ipcdn) o Cable Device Management Information Base for DOCSIS compliant Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems (ifmib) o IP Tunnel MIB (mpls) o Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture (radius) o RADIUS Authentication Client MIB (radius) o RADIUS Authentication Server MIB (radius) o RADIUS Accounting Client MIB (radius) o RADIUS Accounting Server MIB (none) o Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP (none) o IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations (fax) o GSTN address element extensions in e-mail services (rtfm) o Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture (none) o ISO 7812/7816 Based Card Numbers and the Domain Name System (DNS) (pkix) o X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP (smime) o Cryptographic Message Syntax (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol, Version 2 (none) o On-Demand Mail Relay (ODMR) (none) o Form-based Device Input in HTML (none) o IMAP4 Child Mailbox Extension (mpls) o MPLS Label Stack Encoding (smime) o S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling (smime) o S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification (ldapext) o The Java LDAP Application Program Interface (none) o LDAP Proxied Authentication Control (ngtrans) o Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers (rap) o A Framework for Policy-based Admission Control (calsch) o ICalendar Real-time Interoperability Protocol (IRIP) (radius) o RADIUS Accounting Modifications for Tunnel Protocol Support (vrrp) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol using SNMPv2 (none) o A Two-bit Differentiated Services Architecture for the Internet (avt) o Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications (none) o Multipath Issues in Unicast and Multicast (mpls) o VCID Notification over ATM link (policy) o Policy Action Classes for Differentiated Services and Integrated Services (tn3270e) o 5250 Telnet Enhancements (ipfc) o IP and ARP over Fibre Channel (rps) o Routing Policy System Security (rtfm) o SRL: A Language for Describing Traffic Flows and Specifying Actions for Flow Groups (ldapext) o LDAP Control Extension for Server Side Sorting of Search Results (none) o An '.ipv6' Top Level Pseudo-Domain (rap) o RSVP Extensions for Policy Control (bridge) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering and Virtual LAN Extensions (ldapext) o Access Control Model for LDAP (none) o RTP Payload Format for PureVoice(tm) Audio (nfsv4) o NFS Version 2 and Version 3 Security Issues and the NFS Protocol's Use of RPCSEC_GSS and Kerberos V5 (none) o Schema for Representing Java(tm) Objects in an LDAP Directory (none) o The WWW Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1 (none) o vCard v3.0 Formal Public Identifier (nat) o IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and Considerations (nat) o DNS extensions to Network Address Translators (DNS_ALG) (ipcdn) o Telephony-Return Interface (TRI) Management Information Base for DOCSIS-compliant Telephony-Return Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems (pppext) o L2TP Over AAL5 and FUNI (rps) o PGP authentication for RIPE database updates (sigtran) o Multi_Network Datagram Transmission Protocol (cat) o Generic Security Service API Version 2 : Java bindings (avt) o Sampling of the Group Membership in RTP (tn3270e) + TN3270E Functional Extensions (none) o Simple Commerce Messaging Protocol (SCMP) (mpls) o MPLS using ATM VC Switching (rtfm) o RTFM: Applicability Statement (ipngwg) o Routing of Scoped Addresses in the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) (calsch) o iCalendar v2.0 Formal Public Identifier (dhc) o Automatically Choosing an IP Address in an Ad-Hoc IPv4 Network (none) o IPSec Re-keying Issues (tn3270e) o Open Host Interface Objects (none) o Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism (pppext) o Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions, Version 2 (uswg) + FYI on Questions and Answers Answers to Commonly asked New Internet User Questions (isis) o Management Information Base for IS-IS (none) o UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 (urn) o The Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) DNS Resource Record (rps) o Routing Policy Specification Language (RPSL) (sigtran) o Architectural Framework for Signaling Transport (none) o The KeyNote Trust-Management System (idr) o BGP Route Reflection An alternative to full mesh IBGP (tcpimpl) o TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery (none) o Analysis of an Equal-Cost Multi-Path Algorithm (none) o Changing the Default for Directed Broadcasts in Routers (none) o External Media Gateway Control Protocol MIB XGCP-MIB (pppext) o PPP over SONET/SDH (roamops) o Certificate-Based roaming (conneg) o Indicating media features for MIME content (none) o Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML (conneg) o MIME content types in media feature expressions (conneg) o Identifying composite media features (none) o ICMP Extensions for MultiProtocol Label Switching (mobileip) o Requirements on Mobile IP from a Cellular Perspective (udlr) o A Link Layer Tunneling Mechanism for Unidirectional Links (malloc) o MADCAP Multicast Scope Nesting State Option (megaco) o Multiservice Switching Forum requirements input to MEGACO (none) o Simple Service Discovery Protocol/1.0 (dnsind) o Deferred Dynamic Domain Name System (DNS) Delete Operations (none) o Internet Transparency (malloc) o Static Allocations in 233/8 (none) o Rescap Profile for Mail User Agents (none) o RSVP Refresh Reduction Extensions (megaco) o MEGACO Protocol (ipvbi) o The Transmission of IP Over the Vertical Blanking Interval of a Television Signal (none) + A Fair Marker (none) + IKE/ISAKMP Considered Dangerous (ion) + NHRP Support for Virtual Private Networks (none) + SS7-TCAP/IP Interworking (none) + Simple SS7-TCAP/IP Protocol (STIPP) (ngtrans) + IPv6 Tunnel Broker (none) + Effect of Number of Drop Precedences in Assured Forwarding (none) + Quality of Service using Traffic Engineering over MPLS: An Analysis (none) + The eid URL Scheme (smime) + CMS KEA and SKIPJACK Conventions (none) + Support for Language Translation of E-Mail (none) + Geographic registration of HTML documents (none) + A taxonomy of multicast security issues (none) + Networking Policy Condition Information Model (wrec) + Web Caching and Replication -- Research Issues (ipsec) + IPsec Interactions with ECN (none) + Simple Agent Commmunication Protocol (none) + The application/osp-token MIME type (none) + A revised signature mode for the Internet Key Exchange (none) + Suggested Requirements For Control Of An IVR Function (none) + Static Allocation of Multicast Addresses in the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) (none) + An Application Protocol for the Reliable Data Transfer over Multicast Subnetworks and under EMCON Restrictions (issll) o Interoperation of RSVP/Intserv and Diffserv Networks (fax) + File Format for Internet Fax (revised) (ngtrans) + Transition Scenarios and Solutions (ipsec) + IKE Extensions Methods (cat) + A Service Provider API for GSS mechanisms in Java (none) o Web Based Device Management (WBDM) (tls) + 56-bit Export Cipher Suites For TLS (none) + IMAP4 COMMAND+ Extension (dnsind) + Simple Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic Update (none) + RSVP Extensions for ID-based Refreshes (none) + Scalable Routing Design Principles (none) + ResCap Requirements (none) + SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS (ipngwg) + Connection/Link Status Investigation (CSI) for IPv6 IPv6 Hop-by-Hop option and ICMPv6 messages Extension (none) + Logical Key Hierarchy Protocol (ngtrans) + A Guide to the Introduction of IPv6 in the IPv4 World (none) + Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF (none) + A Generic Traffic Conditioner (msdp) + Multicast Source Discovery protocol MIB (none) + SIMPLE CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROGRAM INTERFACE (Crypto API) (none) + iSLP: Resource Discovery on the Internet with Service Location Protocol (none) + Root Name Server Operational Requirements (cat) + Common Authentication technology WG (none) + Simple Protocol Application Data Encoding (ngtrans) + A SOCKS-based IPv6/IPv4 Gateway Mechanism (impp) + A Model for Presence and Instant Messaging (ldup) + LDAP Replication Architecture (none) + Schema for Representing CORBA Objects in an LDAP Directory (none) + Dynamic Bandwidth Management Using Resource Adjuster Cells (none) + Registration of Charset and Languages Media Features Tags (fax) + Minimal GSTN address format in Internet Mail (none) + MPLS Support of Differentiated Services over PPP links (dnsind) + Domain Name System (DNS) Security Key Rollover (conneg) + Corrections to 'A syntax for describing media feature sets' (none) + A Proposal for reducing RSVP Refresh Overhead using State Compression (vrrp) + VRRP Operation over ATM LAN Emulation (none) + Per Hop Behavior Identification Codes (ldapext) + The Java LDAP Application Program Interface Asynchronous Extension (fax) + Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail (poisson) + IETF Discussion List Charter (pkix) + An Internet AttributeCertificate Profile for Authorization (dnsind) + Indirect KEY RRs in the Domain Name System (DNS) (none) + Multicast Security Management Protocol (MSMP) Requirements and Policy (none) + Simple Source Address Selection for IPv6 (none) + The btv URN Scheme 7. 12 RFCs were published during this period RFC2549 I (none) IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Servic RFC2550 I (none) Y10K and Beyond RFC2552 I (none) Architecture for the Information Brokerage in the ACTS Project GAIA RFC2555 I (none) 30 Years of RFCs RFC2559 PS (pkix) Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols - LDAPv2 RFC2561 PS (tn3270e) Base Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E Using SMIv2 RFC2562 PS (tn3270e) Definitions of Protocol and Managed Objects for TN3270E Response Time Collection Using SMIv2 (TN3270E-RT-MIB) RFC2578 S (none) Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2) RFC2579 S (none) Textual Conventions for SMIv2 RFC2580 S (none) Conformance Statements for SMIv2 RFC2581 PS (tcpimpl) TCP Congestion Control RFC2582 E (tcpimpl) The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm