IETF Progress Report
                     01 Dec 2001 to 31 Dec 2001


 1)   4 IESG Protocol Actions this period.

   Defining the IETF  (BCP)                                                 

   NAT Friendly Application Design Guidelines  (Informational)              

   Requirements for Reliable Server Pooling  (Informational)                

   A Message Bus for Local Coordiantion  (Informational)                    


 2)  16 IESG Last Calls issued to the IETF this period.

   Encryption and Security Requirements for IETF Standard Protocols         
         <draft-ietf-saag-whyenc-00> (BCP) 

   Content Duration MIME Header Definition                                  
         <draft-ietf-vpim-vpimv2r2-dur-02> (Draft Standard) 

   Toll Quality Voice - 32 kbit/s ADPCM MIME Sub-type Registration          
         <draft-ietf-vpim-vpimv2r2-32k-02> (Draft Standard) 

   Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2                              
         <draft-ietf-vpim-vpimv2r2-04> (Draft Standard) 

   LDAPv2 to Historical Status                                              
         <draft-zeilenga-ldapv2-02> (Informational) 

   Requirements and assumptions for ROHC 0-byte IP/UDP/RTP compression      
         <draft-ietf-rohc-rtp-0-byte-requirements-02> (Informational) 

   Definitions of Managed Objects for the General Switch Management Protocol
   (GSMP)                                                                   
         <draft-ietf-gsmp-mib-07> (Proposed Standard) 

   General Switch Management Protocol V3                                    
         <draft-ietf-gsmp-10> (Proposed Standard) 

   Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses                       
         <draft-ietf-ops-rfc2851-update-06> (Proposed Standard) 

   VPIM Addressing                                                          
         <draft-ietf-vpim-address-02> (Proposed Standard) 

   IP over MIME                                                             
         <draft-eastlake-ip-mime-05> (Proposed Standard) 

   SS7 MTP3-User Adaptation Layer (M3UA)                                    
         <draft-ietf-sigtran-m3ua-10> (Proposed Standard) 

   SS7 MTP2-User Adaptation Layer                                           
         <draft-ietf-sigtran-m2ua-11> (Proposed Standard) 

   Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for Differentiated Services             
         <draft-ietf-rmonmib-dsmon-mib-09> (Proposed Standard) 

   ROHC over PPP                                                            
         <draft-ietf-rohc-over-ppp-04> (Proposed Standard) 

   A Link-Layer Assisted ROHC Profile for IP/UDP/RTP                        
         <draft-ietf-rohc-rtp-lla-03> (Proposed Standard) 


 3)   1 working group(s) concluded this period.

   IPNG (ipngwg)

 4)   38 new or revised Internet-Drafts this period
 
 (o - Revised Internet-Draft; + - New Internet-Draft)

   WG             I-D Title  <Filename>
 ------       -----------------------------------------------------
 (ospf)     o  The OSPF NSSA Option                                         
                             <draft-ietf-ospf-nssa-update-10.txt> 
 (none)     o  LDAP Proxied Authentication Control                          
                             <draft-weltman-ldapv3-proxy-09.txt> 
 (ippm)     o  IP Packet Delay Variation Metric for IPPM                    
                             <draft-ietf-ippm-ipdv-08.txt> 
 (usefor)   o  News Article Format                                          
                             <draft-ietf-usefor-article-06.txt> 
 (ospf)     o  Management Information Base for OSPFv3                       
                             <draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-mib-04.txt> 
 (none)     o  LDAP Authentication Response Control                         
                             <draft-weltman-ldapv3-auth-response-06.txt> 
 (none)     o  Logical Analysis of the Binary Representation and the IP 
               Specifications for the IPv7 and IPv8 Addressing Systems      
                             <draft-terrell-logic-analy-bin-ip-spec-ipv7-ipv8-09.txt> 
 (pkix)     o  Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate 
               Management Protocols                                         
                             <draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2510bis-06.txt> 
 (none)     o  Usage of TRIP in Gateways for Exporting Phone Routes         
                             <draft-rs-trip-gw-03.txt> 
 (ospf)     o  OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base                   
                             <draft-ietf-ospf-mib-update-05.txt> 
 (none)     o  A Configuration Schema for LDAP Based Directory User Agents  
                             <draft-joslin-config-schema-03.txt> 
 (pkix)     o  Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Request 
               Message Format (CRMF)                                        
                             <draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2511bis-04.txt> 
 (midcom)   o  Middlebox Communication Architecture and framework           
                             <draft-ietf-midcom-framework-06.txt> 
 (opsarea)  o  Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses           
                             <draft-ietf-ops-rfc2851-update-06.txt> 
 (dnsext)   o  Obsoleting IQUERY                                            
                             <draft-ietf-dnsext-obsolete-iquery-02.txt> 
 (none)     o  SUCV Identifiers and Addresses                               
                             <draft-montenegro-sucv-02.txt> 
 (none)     o  Converting LDAP/X.500 Distinguished Names to DNS Domain Names
               to Support Server Location                                   
                             <draft-slone-dn2fqdn-01.txt> 
 (smime)    o  Cryptographic Message Syntax                                 
                             <draft-ietf-smime-rfc2630bis-06.txt> 
 (smime)    o  Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) Algorithms                
                             <draft-ietf-smime-cmsalg-07.txt> 
 (none)     o  The Simple Proof Supporting the Findaings from the Logical 
               Analysis of the Binary System Which disposes the Logical 
               Dispute fostered by Modern Interpretation for Counting in 
               Binary Notation                                              
                             <draft-terrell-simple-proof-support-logic-analy-bin-02.txt> 
 (none)     o  Internet Protocol, Version 64 (IPv64) Specification          
                             <draft-azcorra-ipv64-03.txt> 
 (none)     o  TDM Service Specification for Pseudo-Wire Emulation 
               Edge-to-Edge (PWE3)                                          
                             <draft-pate-pwe3-tdm-02.txt> 
 (none)     o  Bounding Longest Match Considered                            
                             <draft-hardie-bounded-longest-match-02.txt> 
 (none)     o  SMQP: Simple Message Queue Protocol                          
                             <draft-tegen-smqp-05.txt> 
 (none)     o  TDM Circuit Emulation Service over Packet Switched Network 
               (CESoPSN)                                                    
                             <draft-vainshtein-cesopsn-01.txt> 
 (none)     +  HASM: Hierarchical Application-Level Secure Multicast        
                             <draft-coan-hasm-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  URI Scheme for the TFTP Protocol                             
                             <draft-lear-lear-tftp-url-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  Benchmarking Methodology for Basic OSPF Convergence          
                             <draft-manral-ospconv-intraarea-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  OSPF Benchmarking Terminology and Concepts                   
                             <draft-manral-ospfconv-term-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  IETF and ITU-T Collaboration Guidelines                      
                             <draft-fishman-2436bis-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  Requirements for QoS Signaling Protocols                     
                             <draft-brunner-nsis-req-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  SPKI-XML Certificate Structure                               
                             <draft-orri-spki-xml-cert-struc-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  Test Specification for MTP3 User Adaptation                  
                             <draft-anshoo-test-spec-m3ua-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  RSVP Mobility Proxy                                          
                             <draft-paskalis-rsvpmp-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  Using Bloom Filters for Authenticated Yes/No Answers in the 
               DNS                                                          
                             < draft-bellovin-dnsext-bloomfilt-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  Definition of IP Packet Reordering Metric                    
                             <draft-shalunov-reordering-definition-00.txt> 
 (none)     +  SS7 MTP2-User Peer-to-Peer Adaptation Layer Test 
               Specifications M2PA-TEST                                     
                             <draft-bidulock-sigtran-m2pa-test-00.txt,.ps> 
 (none)     +  Visualizing Change; Re-Defining the Role of the IPv6
               
               Protocol Specification                                       
                             <draft-terrell-visual-change-redefining-role-ipv6-00.txt> 

 5)    8 RFCs produced between 01 Dec 2001 and 31 Dec 2001

    S - Standard;     PS - Proposed Standard; DS - Draft Standard;
    B - Best Current Practices; E - Experimental; I - Informational
 
  RFC  Status WG        Title  
------- -- --------   --------------------------------------------------
RFC3196  I (ipp)        Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer's Guide 
RFC3198  I (policy)     Terminology for Policy-Based Management             
RFC3203 PS (dhc)        DHCP reconfigure extension                          
RFC3204 PS (sip)        MIME media types for ISUP and QSIG Objects          
RFC3208  E (none)       PGM Reliable Transport Protocol                     
RFC3209 PS (mpls)       RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels         
RFC3210  I (mpls)       Applicability Statement for Extensions to RSVP for 
                        LSP-Tunnels                                         
RFC3216  I (sming)      SMIng Requirements                                  

  3 Standards Track;   0 BCP;   1 Experimental;   4 Informational