Internet Monthly Report for September 2000 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following 22 Protocol Actions during the month of September 2000: o Architectural Implications of NAT for publication as an Informational RFC. o LDP Applicability for publication as an Informational RFC. o A Framework For Integrated Services Operation Over Diffserv Networks for publication as an Informational RFC. o PKCS 9:Selected Object Classes and Attribute Types v2.0 for publication as an Informational RFC. o PKCS 10: Certification Request Syntax Specification Version 1.7 for publication as an Informational RFC. o Multipath Issues in Unicast and Multicast Next-Hop Selection for publication as an Informational RFC. o Analysis of an Equal-Cost Multi-Path Algorithm for publication as an Informational RFC. o Pre-Spirits Implementations of PSTN-initiated Services for publication as an Informational RFC. o Overview of 2000 IAB Wireless Internetworking Workshop for publication as an Informational RFC. o A Description of the MISTY1 Encryption Algorithm for publication as an Informational RFC. o The Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) DNS Resource Record for publication as a Proposed Standard. o VCID Notification over ATM link for LDP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o LDP Specification for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Registration of Charset and Languages Media Features Tags for publication as a Proposed Standard. o NFS version 4 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Mobile IP Challenge/Response Extensions for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Use of the CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm in CMS for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Specification of the Null Service Type for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Format of the RSVP DCLASS Object for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Integrated Services in the Presence of Compressible Flows for publication as a Proposed Standard. 4. Nine Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of September 2000: o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Qualified Certificates Profile for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Signaled Preemption Priority Policy Element for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Identity Representation for RSVP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for Monitoring and Controlling the UNI/NNI Multilink Frame Relay Function for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP, revised for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for 12-bit DAT, 20- and 24-bit Linear Sampled Audio for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 3. Two new working groups were created Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys (kink) IP Storage (ips) 4. There were 157 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of September 2000: (drums) o Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (ftpext) o Extensions to FTP (drums) o Internet Message Format (none) o Securing FTP with TLS (none) o DIAMETER Base Protocol (ospf) o The OSPF NSSA Option (none) o Character Normalization in ITEF Protocols (none) o DIAMETER Resource Management Extensions (urn) o Assignment Procedures for the URI Resolution using DNS (none) o DIAMETER Mobile IP Extensions (ngtrans) o Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (isis) o IS-IS extensions for Traffic Engineering (ldup) o LDAPv3 Replication Requirements (dhc) o The Subnet Selection Option for DHCP (roamops) o XML DTD for Roaming Access Phone Book (none) o Connection/Link Status Investigation (CSI) IPv6 Hop-by-Hop option and ICMPv6 messages Extension (cat) o SASL GSSAPI mechanisms (none) o Fast Handoffs in Mobile IPv4 (none) o ACTS Protocol and Timesetting Services (smime) o Use of the IDEA Encryption Algorithm in CMS (ngtrans) o IPv6 Tunnel Broker (none) o Geographic registration of HTML documents (fax) o Minimal GSTN address format in Internet Mail (fax) o Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail (poisson) o IETF Discussion List Charter (none) o ACP 133 Common Content and LDAP (none) o Tags for the Identification of Languages (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols - LDAPv3 (none) o IETF Meeting Network Infrastructure Lore (ipngwg) o Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol(IPP:IPP Event Notification Specification (none) o Secure Remote Password SASL Mechanism (none) o Geographic extensions for HTTP transactions (none) o XML Media Types (none) o DIAMETER Accounting Extension (none) o Notification and Subscription for SLP (mobileip) o Mobile IP Vendor/Organization-Specific Extensions (none) o ECML v1.1: Field Specifications for E-Commerce (pint) o Management Information Base for the PINT Services Architecture (none) o Secure IP Multicast: Problem areas, Framework, and Building Blocks (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support for IPv4, revised (none) o Multiple Destination option on IPv6(MDO6) (fax) o Implementers Guide for Facsimile Using Internet Mail (smime) o Use of ECC Algorithms in CMS (zeroconf) o ZeroConf Requirements (none) o DIAMETER NASREQ Extensions (none) o DIAMETER Strong Security Extension (none) o Transport of Layer 2 Frames Over MPLS (none) o PHONECTL Protocol (none) o Foreign Agent Assisted Hand-off (sip) o MIME media types for ISUP and QSIG Objects (dnsext) o DNS Security Extension Clarification on Zone Status (none) o Steps for IPsec Interoperability Testing (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service Level Definitions (none) o Generalized NAI Extension (GNAIE) (none) o Link Bundling in MPLS Traffic Engineering (none) o GKM Building Block: Group Security Association (GSA) Definition (none) o CDMA2000 Wireless Data Requirements for AAA (sigtran) o Stream Control Transmission Protocol Applicability Statement (megaco) o Megaco/H.248 NAS Package (trade) o SET Supplement for the v1.0 Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): The 'mailto:' Delivery Method for Event Notifications (ipsra) o PIC, A Pre-IKE Credential Provisioning Protocol (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol (IPP):The INDP Notification Delivery Method and Protocol/1.0 (rap) o Structure of Policy Provisioning Information (SPPI) (rap) o Framework Policy Information Base (none) o An IPv6-IPv4 Compatibility Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format for Incremental Deployment of IPv6 Nodes Within Predominantly IPv4-based Intranets (none) o Sieve -- Subaddress Extension (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (spirits) o Pre-Spirits Implementations of PSTN-initiated Services (none) o The Network Solutions Personal Internet Name (PIN): A URN Namespace for People and Organizations (none) o ISO/IEC 9798-3 Authentication SASL Mechanism (none) o A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers (none) o Hierarchical MIPv6 mobility management (dnsext) o DNSSEC and IPv6 A6 aware server/resolver message size requirements (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Job Progress Attributes (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Resource Objects (mpls) o LSP Hierarchy with MPLS TE (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Additional LDAP Schema for PKIs and PMIs (sip) o SIP Call Control (none) o IN- and PINT-related Requirements for SPIRITS Protocol (idwg) o Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format Comparison of SMI and XML Implementations (none) o An RTP Payload Format for Erasure-Resilient Transmission of Progressive Multimedia Streams (urn) o Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) (urn) o A DDDS Database Using The Domain Name System (urn) o URI Resolution using the Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (none) o A LightWeight IP Encapsulation (LIPE) Scheme (none) o Traffic Engineering with Unnumbered Links (none) o Administrative Requirements for Deployment of ENUM in North America (none) o Guidelines for IPv6 local experiments (none) o FC over SCTP/IP (FC/SCTP/IP) (dnsext) o RSA/SHA-1 SIGs and RSA KEYs in the Domain Name System (DNS) (none) + Uniform Resource Identifiers: Comprehensive Standard (none) + OSPF, IS-IS, RSVP, CR-LDP Extensions to Support Inter-Area Traffic Engineering Using MPLS TE (none) + Using Kerberos as a key exchange method in Secure Shell (none) + Address Prefix Based Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4 (none) + IP Payload Compression Using ITU-T V.44 Packet Method (smime) + Reuse of CMS Content Encryption Keys (dnsext) + Indicating Resolver Support of DNSSEC (none) + An analysis of IPv6 anycast (none) + IPv6 SMTP operational requirements (none) + Using The ISSN (International Serial Standard Number)as URN (Uniform Resource Names) within an ISSN-URN Namespace (none) + Key Management for Large Dynamic Groups: One-Way Function Trees and Amortized Initialization (none) + Broadcast Trivial File Transfer Protocol (none) + A Characters Codes Page for language names (none) + Intra-Domain Group Key Management Protocol (none) + SCTP Dynamic Addition of IP addresses (none) + SCTP Unreliable Data Mode Extension (none) + SCTP Stream based flow control (rmonmib) + Token Ring Extensions to the Remote Network Monitoring MIB (none) + MPLampS: Electricity over IP (with an MPLS control plane) (issll) + Capability Negotiation: The RSVP CAP Object (mpls) + Link Management Protocol (LMP) (mpls) + Framework for MPLS-based Recovery (none) + Bi-mode Row-based ASCII-Compatible Encoding (BRACE), version 0.1.0 (none) + Fast Handoffs in MIPv6 (none) + Micro-IP for embedded systems (none) + Presence and Instant Messaging Protocol (PRIM) (idn) + Internationalizing Host Names In Applications (IDNA) (idn) + Han Ideograph (CJK) for Internationalized Domain Names (idn) + DNSII Transitional Reflexive ASCII Compatible Encoding (TRACE) (isis) + IS-IS Extensions in Support of Generalized MPLS (none) + VLAN Aggregation for Efficient IP Address Allocation (ospf) + OSPF Stub Router Advertisement (pkix) + Delegated Path Validation (pkix) + Online Certificate Status Protocol, version 2 (pkix) + Delegated Path Discovery with OCSP (none) + Socket API for IPv6 flow label field (none) + ESP Encapsulation in UDP Packets (idn) + BRACE: Bi-mode Row-based ASCII-Compatible Encoding for IDN version 0.1.2 (none) + Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys (none) + The DIAMETER API (tewg) + A Traffic Engineering MIB (ipp) + Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): The 'ippget' Event Notifications Delivery Method (urn) o Assignment Procedures for URI Resolution Using DNS (idr) + Autonomous System Confederations for BGP (mpls) + Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) FEC-To-NHLFE (FTN) Management Information Base Using SMIv2 (none) + High Level Logical Link Control (HLLC) (none) + Requirements for Networked Appliances: Wide-Area Access, Control, and Interworking (none) + IRC-DIGEST Digest authentication for IRC (none) + URN Namespace for Literate Programming: Anthony B. Coates URN-NID-abc (none) + Assigned Numbers (none) + Mobile Mesh Border Discovery Protocol (none) + Mobile Mesh Link Discovery Protocol (none) + Mobile Mesh Routing Protocol (none) + Securely Available Credentials - Requirements (none) + HTTP Cache Control Extensions for Direct Cache Manipulation (none) + Group Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP (none) + Universal Service Protocol (ipngwg) + Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses (none) + iSCSI Message Boundary Detection Proposal (none) + Mobile IPv6 Neighborhood Routing for Fast Handoff (none) + Content Distribution Network Peering Scenarios (l2tpext) + L2TP Service Type (none) + Flexible proxy of mail protocols (none) + RDMA / TCP (none) + Mapping Between Content-Types and URIs 7. 32 RFCs were published during this period RFC2799 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2700-2799 RFC2892 I (none) The Cisco SRP MAC Layer Protocol RFC2895 PS (rmonmib) Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifier Reference RFC2896 I (rmonmib) Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifier Macros RFC2897 I (none) Proposal for an MGCP Advanced Audio Package RFC2898 I (none) PKCS5: Password-Based Cryptography Specification v2.0 RFC2901 I (none) Guide to Administrative Procedures of the Internet Infrastructure RFC2902 I (iab) Overview of the 1998 IAB Routing Workshop RFC2903 I (none) Generic AAA Architecture RFC2904 I (none) AAA Authorization Framework RFC2905 I (none) AAA Authorization Application Examples RFC2906 I (none) AAA Authorization Requirements RFC2907 PS (malloc) MADCAP Multicast Scope Nesting State Option RFC2908 I (malloc) The Internet Multicast Address Allocation Architecture RFC2909 E (malloc) The Multicast Address Set Claim (MASC) Protocol RFC2912 PS (conneg) Indicating media features for MIME content RFC2913 PS (conneg) MIME content types in media feature expressions RFC2914 B (ecm) Congestion Control Principles RFC2915 PS (urn) The Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) DNS Resource Record RFC2916 PS (enum) E.164 number and DNS RFC2917 I (none) Core MPLS IP VPN Architecture RFC2918 PS (idr) Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4 RFC2920 S (none) SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining RFC2921 I (ngtrans) 6BONE pTLA and pNLA Formats (pTLA) RFC2923 I (tcpimpl) TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery RFC2924 I (aaa) Accounting Attributes and Record Formats RFC2927 I (none) MIME Directory Profile for LDAP Schema RFC2929 B (dnsext) Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations RFC2930 PS (dnsext) Secret Key Establishment for DNS (TKEY RR) RFC2931 PS (dnsext) DNS Request and Transaction Signatures ( SIG(0)s ) RFC2935 PS (trade) Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) HTTP Supplement RFC2936 I (trade) HTTP MIME Type Handler Detection