Internet Monthly Report for JANUARY 2001 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following 20 Protocol Actions during the month of JANUARY 2001: o Realm Specific IP: Protocol Specification for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o Realm Specific IP: A Framework for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o RSIP Support for End-to-end IPSEC for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o Finding an RSIP Server with SLP for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o IPsec Interactions with ECN for publication as an Informational RFC. o Derivating Keys for use with Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) for publication as an Informational RFC. o Microsoft Point-To-Point Encryption (MPPE) Protocol for publication as an Informational RFC. o STRUCTURED DATA EXCHANGE FORMAT (SDXF) for publication as an Informational RFC. o ECML v1.1: Field Specifications for E-Commerce for publication as an Informational RFC. o VLAN Aggregation for Efficient IP Address Allocation for publication as an Informational RFC. o Canonical XML Version 1.0 for publication as an Informational RFC. o Definition of Differentiated Services Per Domain Behaviors and Rules for their Specification for publication as an Informational RFC. o Baseline Privacy Interface Management Information Base for DOCSIS Compliant Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems for publication as an Informational RFC. o Portable Font Resource (PFR)-application/font-tdpfrMIME Sub-type Registration for publication as an Informational RFC. o A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers for publication as an Informational RFC. o LDAP Password Modify Extended Operation for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Attribute List Extension for the Service Location Protocol for publication as a Proposed Standard. o COPS Usage for Policy Provisioning for publication as a Proposed Standard. o DHC load balancing algorithm for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) over Frame Relay for publication as a Proposed Standard. 2. 17 Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of JANUARY 2001: o General Switch Management Protocol Applicability for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Implementing Company Classification Policy with the S/MIME Security Label for consideration as an Informational RFC. o EtherIP: Tunneling Ethernet Frames in IP Datagrams for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A More Loss-Tolerant RTP Payload Format for MP3 Audio for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Compressed Data Content Type for S/MIME for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Delta encoding in HTTP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Instance Digests in HTTP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The VCDIFF Generic Differencing and Compression Data Format for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Conventions for the use of the Session Description Protocol SDP) for ATM Bearer Connections for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o L2TP Disconnect Cause Information for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Indicating Resolver Support of DNSSEC for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o DNS Security Extension Clarification on Zone Status for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RSVP Cryptographic Authentication-New Message Type for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the General Switch Management Protocol (GSMP) for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o GSMP Packet Encapsulations for ATM, Ethernet and TCP for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o General Switch Management Protocol V3 for consideration as a Proposed Standard. 3. 6 new working groups were created Web Intermediaries (webi) Middlebox Communication (midcom) Common Control and Measurement Plane (ccamp) IP over Optical (ipo) IP over Resilient Packet Rings (iporpr) Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Networks (ppvpn) And two working group(s) were concluded: Roaming Operations (roamops) ONC Remote Procedure Call (oncrpc) 4. There were XXX Internet-Draft Actions during the month of JANUARY 2001: (idr) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) (atommib) o Definitions of Supplemental Managed Objects for ATM Interface (idr) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) (dhc) o Authentication for DHCP Messages (secsh) o SSH Transport Layer Protocol (secsh) o SSH Authentication Protocol (secsh) o SSH Connection Protocol (none) o Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI) (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 (secsh) o SSH Protocol Architecture (webdav) o WebDAV Access Control Protocol (none) o The UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol (idmr) o Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3 (ipsec) o DHCPv4 Configuration of IPSEC Tunnel Mode (none) o Common Internet Message Header Fields (mpls) o Carrying Label Information in BGP-4 (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol: Requirements for IPP Notifications (none) o Printer Finishing MIB = (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time Stamp Protocols (TSP) (none) o BGP Extended Communities Attribute (ldup) o LDAPv3 Replication Requirements (wrec) o Internet Web Replication and Caching Taxonomy (none) o Support for Language Translation in E-Mail and Netnews (pkix) o An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Authorization (none) o LDAP Schema for Intranet Mail Routing (adslmib) o Definitions of Extention Managed Objects for ADSL Lines (mpls) o Framework for IP Multicast in MPLS (mpls) o MPLS Label Switch Router Management Information Base Using SMIv2 (mobileip) o AAA Registration Keys for Mobile IP (idwg) o Intrusion Detection Exchange Format Requirements (ipcdn) o Application of the IGMP MIB, RFC 2993, and Cable Device MIB, RFC 2669, to Docsis 1,1 Devices (imapext) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT EXTENSION (none) o Secure Remote Password SASL Mechanism (none) o Defining the IETF (none) o SKiCal - an extension of iCalendar (none) o A proposal to apply ECN into Wireless and Mobile Networks (none) o Notification and Subscription for SLP (none) o Attribute List Extension for the Service Location Protocol (mboned) o Anycast RP mechanism using PIM and MSDP (fax) o Content Negotiation for Internet Messaging Services (disman) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Scheduling Management Operations (deltav) o Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (none) o Definitions for talking about directories (mobileip) o Mobile IP Based Micro Mobility Management Protocol in The Third Generation Wireless Network (fax) o Implementers Guide for Facsimile Using Internet Mail (none) o Elliptic Curve KEYs and SIGs in the DNS (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol(IPP): The 'collection' attribute syntax (smime) o Implementing Company Classification Policy with the S/MIME Security Label (cnrp) o Common Name Resolution Protocol (CNRP) (none) o PhoneControl: A Protocol for Remote Phone Control (none) o A proposal to add Fast Congestion Notification to IP and Improve TCP Performance in Wireless and Mobile networks (none) o A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Technical Requirements for a non-Repudiation Service (sip) o MIME media types for ISUP and QSIG Objects (none) o Probabilistic Optimization of LKH-based Multicast Key Distribution Schemes (none) o IP and ARP over ISO 7816-3 (dnsext) o DNS Security Extension Clarification on Zone Status (openpgp) o Multiple Signatures using Security Multiparts (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - MULTIAPPEND EXTENSION (cnrp) o The 'go'URI Scheme for the Common Name Resolution Protocol (idn) o Requirements of Internationalized Domain Names (none) o Using National Bibliography Numbers as Uniform Resource Names (none) o RIPE DNS WG Guide To Setting Up a DNS Server (sip) o DHCP Option for SIP Servers (none) o Reflections on the DNS, RFC 1591, and Categories of Domains (none) o Encrypted Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- UGGC/1.0 (none) o New meaning of Keywords for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels (none) o LDAP Schema for NDS (ipsra) o Requirements for IPsec Remote Access Scenarios (sigtran) o Stream Control Transmission Protocol Applicability Statement (none) o Java enhanced SIP (JES) (mmusic) o Describing session directories in SDP (none) o Generic Registry-Registrar Protocol Requirements (rmonmib) o Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for Differentiated Services (smime) o Electronic Signature Formats for long term electronic signatures (rap) o Structure of Policy Provisioning Information (SPPI) (ippm) o Network performance measurement for periodic streams (none) o AAA for IPv6 Network Access (none) o Sieve -- Regular Expression Extension (adslmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for HDSL2 and SHDSL Lines (none) o OSPF Extensions to Support Inter-Area Traffic Engineering (l2tpext) o L2TP Disconnect Cause Information (none) o Itinerant Internet Protocol (diffserv) o Definition of Differentiated Services Per Domain Behaviors and Rules for their Specification (dnsext) o DNSSEC and IPv6 A6 aware server/resolver message size requirements (uswg) o The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force (idn) o Preparation of Internationalized Host Names (none) o G.LSP Service Model framework in an Optical G-MPLS network (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Job Progress Attributes (none) o The SPIRITS Architecture (none) o SIP-H.323 Interworking Requirements (megaco) o H.248 Annex F (Fax, Text Conversation, and Call discrimination)) (none) o Description of Load-Balancing and Communication Protocols Used by GNU Queue (aaa) o Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting:Protocol Evaluation (imapext) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - THREAD EXTENSION (none) o Radius Security Extensions using Kerberos v5 (vpim) o Message Context for Internet Mail (none) o RADIUS and IPv6 (avt) o RTP payload format for AMR (dnsext) o DNS Security Document Roadmap (beep) o Mapping the BEEP Core onto TCP (beep) o The Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol Core (frnetmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Circuit to Interface Translation (none) o Using International Standard Book Numbers as Uniform Resource Names (none) o The LDAP Client Caching Proxy Model (none) o Uniform Resource Identifiers: Comprehensive Standard (none) o VLAN Aggregation for Efficient IP Address Allocation (none) o The DIAMETER API (none) o Group Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP (ipngwg) o Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses (none) o Mapping Between Content-Types and URIs (syslog) o syslog Protocol (none) o Enhanced Alerting Packages for Megaco/H.248 (kink) o Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys (sip) o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol -- Locating SIP Servers (none) o EtherIP: Tunneling Ethernet Frames in IP Datagrams (none) o An XML format for mail and other messages (none) o DHCP Domain Search Option (diffserv) o A Bulk Handling Per-Domain Behavior for Differentiated Services (none) o SCTP Bakeoff Results and Issues (none) o A Conservative SACK-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for TCP (none) o iFCP - A Protocol for Internet Fibre Channel Storage Networking (ips) o iSCSI (idn) o LACE: Length-based ASCII Compatible Encoding for IDN (poisson) o IETF Code of Conduct (none) o URN Namespace for NewsML Resources (none) o ATM MGCP Package (none) o An anycast prefix for 6to4 relay routers (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Optical Interface Type (none) o Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF (tsvwg) o The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP (xmldsig) o Canonical XML Version 1.0 (none) o iSCSI Naming and Discovery Requirements (dnsext) o Redefinition of DNS AD bit (ips) o A Standard for BootStrapping Clients using the iSCSI Protocol (none) o Considerations on the development of an Optical Control Plane (none) + Modifications to the SLP API (RFC 2614) (syslog) + Syslog-Auth Protocol (syslog) + Syslog-Sign Protocol (none) + Transport Adaptation Framework (TAF) (none) + IS-IS Transient Blackhole Avoidance (none) + A Home Network Management Protocol (HNMP) (none) + An Assured Rate Per-Domain Behaviour for Differentiated Services (none) + MTU Signalling Extensions for LDP (none) + Instant Messaging using IMXP (none) + The multipart/choices Content-Type (none) + BGP Persistent Route Oscillation Condition (pppext) + PPP EAP SRP-SHA1 Authentication Protocol (none) + IP/TCP/UDP Header Compression for ISO 7816 Links (none) o A Policy-Group Sub-TLV for IS-IS Extended IP Reachability Information (none) + RTP Payload Format for MPEG-4 Streams (none) + Explicit Multicast (Xcast) Basic Specification (none) + Path Request and Path Reply Message (none) + A Migration Path to provide End-to-End QoS over Stateless Networks by Means of a Probing-driven Admission Control (sming) + SMIng - Next Generation Structure of Management Information (sming) + SMIng Internet Protocol Core Modules (sming) + SMIng Core Modules (sming) + SMIng Mappings to SNMP (none) + Sieve-An extension for providing instant notifications (none) + Host Ip Routing, Version 1 (ngtrans) o An anycast prefix for 6to4 relay routers (none) + An Overview of the SCTP (none) o Crankback Routing Extensions for MPLS Signaling with RSVP-TE (idn) + Internationalized Domain Names in URIs and IRIs (none) + RTP profile for generic media packets (none) + Guidelines for Internet Bibliographic Issues (ngtrans) + Connecting IPv6 Domains across IPv4 Clouds with BGP (none) + Secure MPLS - Encryption and Authentication of MPLS payloads (ldapbis) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) (ips) + iSNS Internet Storage Name Service (secsh) + SSH File Transfer Protocol (rserpool) + Requirements for Reliable Server Pooling (none) + Internet Draft - Universal Packet Driver Protocol (UPDP) (none) o Detached DNS Information MIME Media Type Registration (pkix) + The PKIX UserGroupName GeneralName Type (none) + The Resource Catalog (none) o A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers (none) + Aspath Based Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4 (none) + Extending the Number of LSP Fragments Beyond the 256 Limit (none) + Architectural Framework for Automatic Protection Provisioning In Dynamic Optical Rings (none) o Representation of numerical values and SI units in character strings for information interchanges (none) + WARP Architectural Requirements Summary (ldapbis) + Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3):Technical Specification (iptel) + Authentication Attribute for TRIP (none) + Mobility Related Terminology (sigtran) + SS7 MTP3-User Adaptation Layer (M3UA)Management Information Base using SMIv2 (none) + Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Version 1.0bis (none) + Forwarding MAC Frames over MAPOS (none) + Basic MGCP Packages (secsh) + Using GSSAPI authentication for key exchange in Secure Shell (none) o Delegation of IP6.ARPA (none) + Intra-domain Mobility Support with SIMPLE (none) + MGCP Extension Registration (none) + Protocol Redesigner's Handbook _ volume i18n Guidelines for internationalization of protocols (none) + Request Routing Requirements for Content Internetworking (none) + The Accounting Data Interchange Format (ADIF) (none) + SIP Call Control: Call Handoff (secsh) + SECSH Public Key File Format (none) + Link Management Protocol Management Information Base Using SMIv2 (none) + Known HTTP Proxy/Caching Problems (rsvp) + RSVP Cryptographic Authentication-New Message Type (ngtrans) + IPv4 over Mobile IPv6 for Dual Stack nodes (ngtrans) + Dual Stack deployment using DSTM and 6to4 (dhc) + Triggering AAA from DHCP Relay Agents (none) + Data Objects and Message Types in the Generic AAA Architecture (none) + Domain Name Whois Data Element and Related Definitions (dnsop) + Parent's SIG over child's KEY (none) + IKE extensions to support Dynamic Policies (ips) + iSCSI Naming and Discovery Requirements (none) o Simple Policy Retrieval Protocol (SPRP) (sigtran) + SCTP Unreliable Data Mode Extension (none) + Optical BGP (OBGP): InterAS lightpath provisioning (webdav) + WebDAV -- Advanced Status Reporting (none) + SIP security requirements from 3G wireless networks (none) + Basic User Registration Protocol (BURP) Requirements (none) + Benchmarking Methodology for Exterior Routing Convergence (idr) + BGP support for four-octet AS number space (diffserv) + Per Hop Behavior Identification Codes (none) + LDAP Extensions for Managing Replication Context and Replicas (none) + Middle boxes: taxonomy and issues (none) + Pico SIP (secsh) + Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange for the SSH Transport Layer Protocol (disman) + Alarm MIB (disman) + ITU Alarm MIB (none) + The DISCOVER opcode 5. 17 RFCs were published during this period RFC3022 I (nat) Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT) RFC3023 PS (none) XML Media Types RFC3024 PS (mobileip)Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP, revised RFC3026 I (none) Liaison to IETF/ISOC on ENUM RFC3027 I (nat) Protocol Complications with the IP Network Address Translator (NAT) RFC3028 PS (none) Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language RFC3031 PS (mpls) Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture RFC3032 PS (mpls) MPLS Label Stack Encoding RFC3033 PS (mpls) The Assignment of the Information Field and Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol RFC3034 PS (mpls) Use of Label Switching on Frame Relay Networks Specification RFC3035 PS (mpls) MPLS using LDP and ATM VC Switching RFC3036 PS (mpls) LDP Specification RFC3037 PS (mpls) LDP Applicability RFC3038 PS (mpls) VCID Notification over ATM link for LDP RFC3039 PS (pkix) Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Qualified Certificates Profile RFC3042 PS (tsvwg) Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit RFC3045 I (none) Storing Vendor Information in the LDAP root DSE