Internet Monthly Report for December 2000 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following seven Protocol Actions during the month of December 2000: o Incident object Description and Exchange Format Requirements for publication as an Informational RFC. o Reflections on the DNS, RFC 1591, and Categories of Domains for publication as an Informational RFC. o Internet Message Format for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Management Information Base for the PINT Services Architecture for publication as a Proposed Standard. o ISDN Q.921-User Adaptation Layer for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Carrying Label Information in BGP-4 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Autonomous System Confederations for BGP for publication as a Proposed Standard. 2. Three Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of December 2000: o Tag Image File Format (TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o File Format for Internet Fax for consideration as a Draft Standard. o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) over Frame Relay for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 3. One new working groups was created: Reliable Server Pooling (rserpool) and one working group concluded: Integrated Services (intserv) 4. There were 63 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of December 2000: (ospf) o The OSPF NSSA Option (nntpext) o Network News Transport Protocol (ippm) o A Framework for Defining Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity Metrics (none) o Using Microsoft Word to create Internet Drafts and RFC's (ldup) o LDAP Replication Architecture (mpls) o Framework for IP Multicast in MPLS (ldup) o LDAP Subentry Schema (ldapext) o Returning Matched Values with LDAPv3 (sigtran) o ISDN Q.921-User Adaptation Layer (gsmp) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the General Switch Management Protocol (GSMP) (mobileip) o Mobile IP Extensions Rationalization (MIER) (idwg) o IAP: Intrusion Alert Protocol (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service Level Definitions (none) o Reflections on the DNS, RFC 1591, and Categories of Domains (l2tpext) o L2TP IP Differentiated Services Extension (ipsra) o Requirements for IPsec Remote Access Scenarios (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): LDAP Schema for Printer Services (none) o The Conclusion of the UUCP Mapping Project (rohc) o Requirements for robust IP/UDP/RTP header compression (pkix) o Transport Protocols for CMP (none) o V5.2 and DPNSS/DASS 2 extensions to the IUA protocol (avt) o RTP Payload Format for SMPTE 292M (dnsop) o Domain Name System (DNS) Security Key Rollover (dnsext) o RSA/SHA-1 SIGs and RSA KEYs in the Domain Name System (DNS) (none) o Bibliographic Protocol Level 1: Link Resolution and Metapage Retrieval (none) o Broadcast Trivial File Transfer Protocol (none) o VLAN Aggregation for Efficient IP Address Allocation (aaa) o Proxy Nodes in AAA Configurations (none) o Protocol versus Document Points of View (idn) o Proposal for a determining process of ACE identifier (ippm) o A One-way Delay Measurement Protocol (none) o Bandwidth Provisioning and Restoration Mechanisms in Optical Networks (none) + Middlebox Communication: Framework and Requirements (none) + Routing support for IPv6 Multi-homing (none) o SIP Telephony Service Examples (none) o ISUP to SIP Mapping (none) + Boomerang - A Simple Resource Reservation Framework for IP (none) + DNS URL scheme (sip) + ISUP to SIP Mapping (none) + The 'application/xhtml+xml' Media Type (none) + Considerations on the development of an Optical Control Plane (none) + Requirements for a Network Event Logging Protocol (none) + The MPEG audio meta data format ID3 (none) + Internationalizing the DNS -- A New Class (none) + Benchmarking Terminology for Routers Supporting Resource Reservation (none) + Tracing Requirements for Generic Tunnels (calsch) + CAP Realtime iTIP-based Scheduling Profile (CRISP) (none) + SCTP Dedicated Management Connection (none) + LIN6: Mobility Support in IPv6 based on End-to-End Communication Model (msgtrk) + SMTP Service Extension for Message Tracking (msgtrk) + The Message/Tracking-Status MIME Extension (none) + SMIng Mappings to DIAMETER (none) + Dynamic Capability for BGP-4 (idr) + Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP (none) + Hybrid Mesh-Ring Optical Networks and Their Routing Information Distribution Using Opaque LSA (opsarea) + SNMP Textual Convention for Static RowPointer (mmusic) + SDP media alignment in SIP (ldapbis) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names (ospf) + OSPF Floodgates (none) + The APEX Presence Service (none) + The Application Exchange Framework (none) + The APEX Access Service (none) + Mobile IP Binding Identifier Extension 5. 27 RFCs were published during this period RFC2989 I (aaa) Criteria for Evaluating AAA Protocols for Network Access RFC2993 I (iab) Architectural Implications of NAT RFC2994 I (none) A Description of the MISTY1 Encryption Algorithm RFC2995 I (spirits) Pre-Spirits Implementations of PSTN- initiated Services RFC2996 PS (issll) Format of the RSVP DCLASS Object RFC2997 PS (issll) Specification of the Null Service Type RFC2998 I (issll) A Framework For Integrated Services Operation Over Diffserv Networks RFC3001 I (none) A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers RFC3002 I (iab) Overview of 2000 IAB Wireless Internetworking Workshop RFC3003 PS (none) The audio/mpeg Media Type RFC3004 PS (dhc) The User Class Option for DHCP RFC3006 PS (intserv) Integrated Services in the Presence of Compressible Flows RFC3007 PS (dnsext) Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Dynamic Update RFC3008 PS (dnsext) Domain Name System Security (DNSSEC) Signing Authority RFC3009 PS (avt) Registration of parityfec MIME types RFC3010 PS (nfsv4) NFS version 4 RFC3011 PS (dhc) The Subnet Selection Option for DHCP RFC3012 PS (mobileip)Mobile IP Challenge/Response Extensions RFC3013 B (grip) Recommended Internet Service Provider Security Services and Procedures RFC3014 PS (disman) Notification Log MIB RFC3015 PS (megaco) Megaco Protocol (With erratta folded in) RFC3016 PS (avt) RTP payload format for MPEG-4 Audio/Visual streams RFC3017 PS (roamops) XML DTD for Roaming Access Phone Book RFC3018 E (none) Unified Memory Space Protocol Specification RFC3020 PS (frnetmib)Definitions of Managed Objects for Monitoring and Controlling the UNI/NNI Multilink Frame Relay Function RFC3021 PS (none) Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to- Point Links RFC3030 PS (none) SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages