Internet Monthly Report for November, 1999 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following 12 Protocol Actions during the month of November, 1999: o Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites for publication as an Informational RFC. o A Framework for Policy-based Admission Control for publication as an Informational RFC. o Digest Values for DOM (DOMHASH) for publication as an Informational RFC. o Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0 for publication as an Informational RFC. o Digital Signatures for the Internet Open Trading Protocol for publication as an Informational RFC. o Terminology for ATM Benchmarking for publication as an Informational RFC. o A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol for publication as a Proposed Standard. o COPS usage for RSVP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RSVP Extensions for Policy Control for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Signaled Preemption Priority Policy Element for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Identity Representation for RSVP for publication as a Proposed Standard. 2. 22 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of November, 1999: o A Framework for MPLS for consideration as an Informational RFC. o LDP Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Applicability Statement for CR-LDP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Applicability Statement for Extensions to RSVP for LSP-Tunnels for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Constraint-Based LSP Setup using LDP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o LDP Applicability for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 ID extension for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Authentication Option for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Authentication: Kerberos Version 5 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Authentication Using DSA for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Authentication Using KEA and SKIPJACK for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Authentication: SRP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Data Encryption Option for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Encryption: DES 64 bit Cipher Feedback for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Encryption: DES 64 bit Output Feedback for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Encryption: DES3 64 bit Cipher Feedback for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Encryption: DES3 64 bit Output Feedback for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Encryption: CAST-128 64 bit Cipher Feedback for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Encryption: CAST-128 64 bit Cipher Feedback for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The SRP Authentication and Key Exchange System for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 3. One new working group concluded Uniform Resource Locator Registration Procedures (urlreg) 4. There were 86 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of November, 1999: (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Monitoring and Controlling the Frame Relay/ATM PVC Service Interworking Function (ngtrans) o Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT) (nntpext) o Network News Transport Protocol (cat) o Initial Authentication and Pass Through AuthenticationUsing Kerberos V5 and the GSS-API (IAKERB) (none) o Form-based Device Input in HTML (ipsec) o A GSS-API Authentication Method for IKE (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3 (rap) o The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol (ipngwg) o DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering (iptel) o A Framework for a Gateway Location Protocol (pim) o Protocol Independent Multicast Routing in the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) (avt) o Sampling of the Group Membership in RTP (dnsind) o A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV) (ipngwg) o Routing of Scoped Addresses in the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) (trade) o Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0 (none) o A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks (policy) o Policy Framework LDAP Core Schema (none) o Tree Delete Control (bmwg) o Terminology for Frame Relay Benchmarking (conneg) o Indicating media features for MIME content (conneg) o MIME content types in media feature expressions (nat) o Realm Specific IP: Protocol Specification (ipfc) o Fibre Channel Management Framework Integration MIB (none) o Microsoft LDAP Control for Directory Synchronization (none) o Simple Service Discovery Protocol/1.0 (trade) o Digital Signatures for the Internet Open Trading Protocol (grip) o Security Expectations for Internet Service Providers (none) o Rescap Profile for Mail User Agents (fax) o File Format for Internet Fax (ipsec) o ISAKMP & IKE Extensions Methods (none) o Terminology for network policy and services: a report of a workshop on middleware (none) o Password-Based Cryptography Standard PKCS 5 v2.0 (none) + Fast-TCP: An enhancement to the current TCP (none) o Multicast and Unicast UDP HTTP Messages (none) o Avoiding Loops in MPLS (none) o Engineering Paths for Multicast Traffic using MPLS (none) o Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (avt) o RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and Telephony Signals (none) o IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers (none) o Internet Endpoint MIB (dnsind) o Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations (none) o IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (none) o The 'text/html' Media Type (sigtran) o Simple Control Transmission Protocol (none) o XML Media Types (pppext) o PPP Bridging Control Protocol for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. (diffserv) o New Terminology for Diffserv (none) o ECML v1.1: Field Specifications for E-Commerce (mboned) o GLOP Addressing in 233/8 (xmldsig) o XML-Signature Core Syntax (none) o The Windows 2000 RC4-HMAC Kerberos encryption type (mobileip) o Mobile IP Based Micro Mobility Management Protocol in The Third Generation Wireless Network (zeroconf) o ZeroConf Requirements (none) o Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching: Combining MPLS Traffic Engineering Control With Optical Crossconnects (none) + Scalable Authentication Framework for Mobile-IP (SAFe-MIP) (none) + Concept of IP Traffic Engineering (none) + Flexible XML Processing Profile (FXPP) (none) + Guide to TV Broadcast URLs (avt) + RTP Audio/Video Profile Interoperability Statement (none) + User to User Kerberos Authentication using GSS-API (none) + Policy-Based Enhancements to the SNMP Framework (pkix) + A String Representation of General Name (none) + Generating KDC Referrals to locate Kerberos realms (none) + Protection/Restoration of MPLS Networks (none) + Proposed Format For Presence Information (none) + Interaction of SLP Directory Agents for Reliability and Scalability (none) o Quick Transaction Protocol - QTP (ipsec) + IPsec Flow Monitoring MIB (none) + LDAP Root DSE Vendor Information (none) + TCP Security Filter (bmwg) + Terminology for ATM ABR Benchmarking (impp) + Security Framework for Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (none) + Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) (none) + HTTP over TLS using a TCP Filter < draft-belingueres-http-tls-filter-00.txt> (none) o Extended move branch concept for GSMP (ipsec) + Fixing IKE Phase 1 Authentication HASH (none) + Fast-TCP: An enhancement to the current TCP (ipngwg) + IPv6 Multihoming with Route Aggregation (enum) + ENUM Requirements (none) + The GLUE Resource Records (idr) + Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4 < draft-ietf-idr-bgp-route-refresh-00.txt> (none) + OSPF Refresh and flooding reduction in stable topologies < draft-pillay-esnault-ospf-flooding-00.txt> (none) + Voice Messaging Directory Service: Principles of Operation (none) + Voice Messaging Directory: Address Resolution Services (none) + Voice Messaging Directory Service:Address Validation Schema and Message Routing Schema 5. Nine RFCs were published during this period RFC2708 I (printmib)Job Submission Protocol Mapping Recommendations for the Job Monitoring MIB RFC2717 B (urlreg) Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names RFC2718 I (urlreg) Guidelines for new URL Schemes RFC2720 PS (rtfm) Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB RFC2721 I (rtfm) RTFM: Applicability Statement RFC2722 I (rtfm) Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture RFC2723 I (rtfm) SRL: A Language for Describing Traffic Flows and Specifying Actions for Flow Groups RFC2724 E (rtfm) RTFM Working Group - New Attributes for Traffic Flow Measurement RFC2728 PS (ipvbi) The Transmission of IP Over the Vertical Blanking Interval of a Television Signal