Internet Monthly Report for May, 2000 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following 21 Protocol Actions during the month of May, 2000: o The Interfaces Group MIB for publication as a Draft Standard. o A Time Sliding Window Three Colour Marker (TSWTCM) for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o Internet fax T.30 Feature Mapping for publication as an Informational RFC. o Network Access Server Requirements Next Generation (NASREQNG)NAS Model for publication as an Informational RFC. o Network Access Servers Requirements: Extended RADIUS Practices for publication as an Informational RFC. o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifier Macros for publication as an Informational RFC. o Context and Goals for Common Name Resolution for publication as an Informational RFC. o IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root for publication as an Informational RFC. o 5250 Telnet Enhancements for publication as an Informational RFC. o Use of the KEA and SKIPJACK Algorithms in CMS for publication as an Informational RFC. o Performance Evaluation of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in IP Networks for publication as an Informational RFC. o DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Diffie-Hellman Proof-of-Possession Algorithms for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Content feature schema for Internet fax for publication as a Proposed Standard. o TCP Processing of the IPv4 Precedence Field for publication as a Proposed Standard. o PPP Bridging Control Protocol for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. for publication as a Proposed Standard. o An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o MEGACO Protocol for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Application and Sub Application Identity Policy Element for Use with RSVP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifier Reference for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Megaco Errata for publication as a Proposed Standard. 4. 14 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of May, 2000: o IANA Charset Registration Procedures for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifier Macros for consideration as an Informational RFC. o The audio/mpeg Media Type for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Mobility Support in IPv6 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifier Reference for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Router Renumbering for IPv6 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Policy Core Information Model - Version 1 Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Management Information Base for the PINT Services Architecture for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (Standard) 5. Three new working groups were created Internet Message Access Protocol Extension (imapext) Voice Profile for Internet Mail (vpim) Security Issues in Network Event Logging (syslog) 6. There were 164 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of May, 2000: (idr) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) (dhc) o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) (dhc) o Extensions for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (isis) o Three-Way Handshake for IS-IS Point-to-Point Adjacencies (dhc) o The User Class Option for DHCP (dhc) o DHCP Relay Agent Information Option (secsh) o SSH Transport Layer Protocol (secsh) o SSH Authentication Protocol (secsh) o SSH Connection Protocol (mboned) o Multicast Debugging Handbook (none) o Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language (acap) o ACAP Authorization Identifier Datasets Classes (acap) o ACAP Application Options Dataset Class (secsh) o SSH Protocol Architecture (webdav) o Access Control Extensions to WebDAV (mpls) o Use of Label Switching on Frame Relay Networks Specification (tn3270e) o TLS-based Telnet Security (none) o Delta encoding in HTTP (none) o Sieve: Vacation Extension (aaa) o Printer Finishing MIB (ipngwg) o DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering (none) o The audio/mpeg Media Type (smime) o Certificate Distribution Specification (smime) o Domain Security Services using S/MIME (mpls) o LDP Specification (tn3270e) o TN3270E Functional Extensions (none) o Simple Commerce Messaging Protocol (SCMP)Version 1 Message Specification (mpls) o MPLS using LDP and ATM VC Switching (none) o IPSec Re-keying Issues (none) o Guide to Administrative Procedures of the Internet Infrastructure (none) o BGP Extended Communities Attribute (tcpimpl) o TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery (none) o Documenting Special Use IPv4 Address Blocks (ngtrans) o Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds without Explicit Tunnels (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Model and Semantics (pkix) o Diffie-Hellman Proof-of-Possession Algorithms (cat) o SASL GSSAPI mechanisms (megaco) o MEGACO Protocol (smime) o Use of the IDEA Encryption Algorithm in CMS (smime) o Use of the KEA and SKIPJACK Algorithms in CMS (issll) o A Framework For Integrated Services Operation Over Diffserv Networks (fax) o File Format for Internet Fax (none) o Registration of Charset and Languages Media Features Tags (pkix) o An Internet AttributeCertificate Profile for Authorization (trade) o HTTP MIME Type Handler Detection (none) o Group Secure Association Key Management Protocol (isis) o Extended Ethernet Frame Size Support (mpls) o Framework for IP Multicast in MPLS (none) o The Cisco SRP MAC Layer Protocol (nasreq) o Network Access Server Requirements Next Generation (NASREQNG)NAS Model (none) o IETF Meeting Network Infrastructure Lore (none) o Realtime Traffic over Cellular Access Networks (none) o A Method for Setting an Alternative Label Switched Paths to Handle Fast Reroute (none) o Accessing IN services from SIP networks (diffserv) o A Conceptual Model for Diffserv Routers (none) o Security Requirements/Implementation Guidelines for Mobile IP using IP Security (nasreq) o Network Access Servers Requirements: Extended RADIUS Practices (none) o Definition of the DNS GL Resource Record used to encode Geographic Locations (diffserv) o Management Information Base for the Differentiated Services Architecture (policy) o Policy Core Information Model - Version 1 Specification (none) o The Performance Transparency Protocol (PTP) (none) o Referal extension to the Whois protocol (none) o SKiCal - an adaptation of iCalendar for describing public events (tsvwg) o TCP Processing of the IPv4 Precedence Field (none) o XML Media Types (pppext) o PPP Bridging Control Protocol for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. (tsvwg) o Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer (cnrp) o Context and Goals for Common Name Resolution (l2tpext) o Layer Two Tunnelling Protocol : ATM access network extensions. (none) o mSLP - Mesh-enhanced Service Location Protocol (none) o OSPF Refresh and flooding reduction in stable topologies (none) o PHONECTL Protocol (none) o Logical Analysis of the Binary Representation and the IP Specifications for the IPv7 and IPv8 Addressing Systems (none) o Interworking Between SIP/SDP and H.323 (none) o Core MPLS IP VPN Architecture (aaa) o Introduction to Accounting Management (sip) o Reliability of Provisional Responses in SIP (ngtrans) o An IPv6-to-IPv4 transport relay translator (none) o The Blocks eXtensible eXchange Protocol Framework (sip) o MIME media types for ISUP and QSIG Objects (none) o Extended RETR - Extension to POP3 (none) o Netnews Administration System (NAS) (dnsext) o Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) Signing Authority (dnsext) o Simple Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic Update (tewg) o A Framework for Internet Traffic Engineering (idn) o Requirements of Internationalized Domain Names (none) o Robust Header Compression using Keyword-Packets (fax) o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration (none) o IANA Charset Registration Procedures (sigtran) o Simple Control Transmission Protocol Applicability Statement (policy) o QoS Policy Schema (none) o Generic Registry Registrar Protocol (GRRP) Requirements (policy) o Policy Framework QoS Information Model (rmonmib) o Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for Interface Parameters Monitoring (rmonmib) o Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for Differentiated Services (none) o BGP/MPLS VPNs (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Slightly Differing Multicast Messages (SLIDE) (ipfc) o Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) (none) o Key and Sequence Number Extensions to GRE (ippm) o Network performance measurement for periodic streams (none) o SS7 MTP2-User Peer-to-Peer Adaptation Layer (snmpconf) o Policy Based Management MIB (snmpconf) o Configuring Networks and Devices with SNMP (none) o Sieve -- Regular Expression Extension (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (none) o Simple Instant Messaging and Presence 1.1 Protocol (none) o Whois Export and Exchange Format (none) o Instant Message and Presence Transfer Protocols (none) o Presence Information Data Format (none) + Preventing DDoS Smurf Attacks (none) + LDAP Controls for Reply Signatures (megaco) o Megaco Errata (none) + BGP-4 support for Traffic Engineering (none) o Conformance Test Specification for SCTP (enum) + E.164 number and DNS (none) + SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary Message Headers (none) + Usage Based Address Allocation Considered Harmful (none) + IP Mobility and the CDMA Radio Access Network: Applicability Statement for Soft Handoff (pkix) + Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Permanent Identifier (none) + L2TP Circuit Emulation Services Extension (megaco) + Megaco Protocol (With erratta folded in) (mmusic) + SDP Source-Filters (none) + Signed Headers in Mail and Netnews (none) + On the use of HTTP as a Substrate for Other Protocols (none) + Telnet URL Transmission Option (none) + Robust Header Compression using Update Packets (adslmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for HDSL2 Lines (spirits) + Pre-Spirits Implementations of PSTN-initiated Services (none) + OSPF Extensions to Support Inter-Area Traffic Engineering (none) + Multiprotocol Label Switching Packet Classification Management Information Base Using SMIv2 < draft-nadeau-mpls-packet-classifier-mib-00.txt> (rmonmib) + Application Performance Measurement MIB (none) + The SCSI Encapsulation Protocol (SEP) (ipngwg) + Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 (rmonmib) + Performance Measurement Capabilities MIB (sigtran) + SS7 SCCP-User Adaptation Layer (SUA) (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects for the Universal Serial Bus (USB) Interface (rmonmib) + Application Performance Measurement Framework Transport Performance Metrics MIB (none) + The Network Solutions Personal Internet Name (PIN): A URN Namespace for People and Organizations (ipcdn) + DVB Cable Network Interface Unit MIB for EuroModem compliant Cable Modems (none) + WEB based Certificate Access Protocol-- WebCAP/1.0 (none) + Event Notification Protocol - ENP (none) + Triggering AAA from DHCP Relay Agents (none) + Security in the Instant Message and Presence Protocols (none) + Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8 (none) + ISO/IEC 9798-3 Authentication SASL Mechanism (rohc) + Lower Layer Guidelines for Robust Header Compression (rohc) + Robust Header Compression using Keyword-Packets (none) o NAT and IPSEC (imapext) + IMAP4 ACL extension (rohc) + ROCCO Performance Evaluation (rohc) + ROCCO Conversational Video Profiles (rohc) + RObust Checksum-based header COmpression (ROCCO) (rohc) + Adaptive Header ComprEssion (ACE) for Real-Time Multimedia (none) + Application/w-xxx-forms Media Type (none) + Policy-Based Load-Balancing in Traffic-Engineered MPLS Networks (none) + DNS Top Level Domain For Private Networks (none) + Registration of 'pages' Media Feature Tag (none) + Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange for the SSH Transport Layer Protocol (malloc) + Dynamic Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses (none) + Proposal for an MGCP Advanced Audio Package (none) + Proposed Modifications to the Service Location Protocol, Version 2 (none) + Comparison of RADIUS Against AAA Network Access Requirements (none) + Textual Conventions for Transport Addresses (none) + SIP enabled IN Services - an implementation report 7. 14 RFCs were published during this period RFC2699 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2600-2699 RFC2806 PS (none) URLs for Telephone Calls RFC2810 I (none) Internet Relay Chat: Architecture RFC2811 I (none) Internet Relay Chat: Channel Management RFC2812 I (none) Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol RFC2813 I (none) Internet Relay Chat: Server Protocol RFC2817 PS (tls) Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 RFC2834 PS (none) ARP and IP Broadcast over HIPPI-800 RFC2835 PS (none) IP and ARP over HIPPI-6400 (GSN) RFC2836 PS (diffserv)Per Hop Behavior Identification Codes RFC2838 I (none) Uniform Resource Identifiers for Television Broadcasts RFC2839 I (none) INTERNET KERMIT SERVICE RFC2840 I (none) TELNET KERMIT OPTION RFC2850 B (iab) Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)