Internet Monthly Report for September, 2002 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following 15 Protocol Actions during the month of September, 2002: o Forward Error Correction building block for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o Network performance measurement for periodic streams for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Textual Conventions for Transport Addresses for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Package for the Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) for publication as an Informational RFC. o The use of Forward Error Correction in Reliable Multicast for publication as an Informational RFC. o Obsoleting IQUERY for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Sieve Extension: Relational Tests for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Selection and Sort Extension for SLP for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o Assignment of the 'OAM Alert Label' for MPLS Operation and Maintenance (OAM) functions for publication as an Informational RFC. o Limiting the Scope of the KEY Resource Record out for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (BCP) o ISUP to SIP Mapping for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Session Initiation Protocol Extension for Instant Messaging for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Entity Sensor Management Information Base for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Internet Media Type message/sipfrag for publication as a Proposed Standard. 2. Nine Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of September, 2002: o Definitions of Managed Objects for SONET Linear APS Architectures for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Extensions for Presence for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Based Format for Watcher Information for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)Event Template-Package for Watcher Information for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o IPv4 Address Conflict Detection for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for High Capacity Alarms for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Use of Interior Gateway Protocol Metric as a second MPLS Traffic Engineering Metric for consideration as a BCP. o Extending the Number of IS-IS LSP Fragments Beyond the 256 Limit for consideration as an Informational RFC. o The MPLS Working Group decision on MPLS signaling protocols for consideration as an Informational RFC. 3. There were 259 InternetDraft Actions during the month of September, 2002: (ccamp) o Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Architecture (none) o DNS/L2TP Based VPLS (none) o XML Method Call (XMC) (seamoby) + Mobility Related Terminology (none) + Evaluation of the CRANE Protocol Against IPFIX Requirements (none) + Multicast Announce and Control Protocol (MACP) (isis) + TLV for Proprietary Use (none) o LDP-based Signaling for L2VPNs (none) + Evaluation of Diameter Protocol against IPFIX Requirements (none) + Evaluation Of Streaming IPDR Against IPFIX Requirements (iab) o General Architectural and Policy Considerations (ccamp) + Tracing Requirements for Generic Tunnels (opes) + Requirements for Policy, Authorization and Enforcement of OPES Services (none) + Evaluation Of Protocol LFAP Against IPFIX Requirements (none) o A Context Transfer Framework for Seamless Mobility (tewg) o A Traffic Engineering MIB (tls) o ECC Cipher Suites For TLS (none) + Microsoft EAP CHAP Extensions (none) o M3UA SG-SG communication (dnsext) + KEY RR Key Signing (KS) Flag (none) + SPAN Discussion Issues (none) + Request to Move RFC 954 to Historic Status (psamp) + A Framework for Passive Packet Measurement (midcom) o Middlebox Communications (MIDCOM) Protocol Evaluation (tls) o Using SRP for TLS Authentication (none) o Backtrace Messages for Label Switched Paths (trade) o Voucher Trading System Application Programming Interface (VTS-API) (tewg) o Requirements for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (none) o Enhanced Mail System Status Codes (mobileip) o The Definitions of Managed Objects for IP Mobility Support using SMIv2, revised (disman) o Distributed Management Expression MIB (disman) o Event MIB (none) + Identifying Intra-realm Calls using STUN (none) o Fast Reroute Extensions to CRLDP (none) + IPv6 Addressing Architecture Support for mobile ad hoc networks (none) + The Effect of Packet Loss on Voice Quality for TDM over Pseudowires (none) + COPS usage for Path Computation Servers (COPS-PCS) (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type (dnsext) o DNS Security Document Roadmap (none) o Common Internet Message Header Fields (none) + SNMP Extended Error Reporting (avt) o RTP Payload Format for SMPTE 292M Video (seamoby) o General Requirements for a Context Transfer (none) o Control Channel Bootstrap for Link Management Protocol (none) o The Managed Object Aggregation MIB (none) o Internationalized String Matching Rules for X.500 (none) o MIDCOM Protocol Semantics (none) o Aggregated Multicast: A Scheme to Reduce Multicast States (none) o application/rdf+xml Media Type Registration (none) + An Architecture for IP Packet Tracing (none) + The Aggregation MIB for time based samples of a Managed Object (none) o Diameter Credit Control Application (none) o OSPF Restart Signaling (forces) o ForCES Architectural Framework (none) + SIP Header Language Information Extension (none) o OSPF Out-of-band LSDB resynchronization (ccamp) + SONET/SDH Encoding for Link Management Protocol (LMP) Test messages (none) o OSPF Link-local Signaling (none) o IPv6 Transition Solutions for 3GPP Networks (rserpool) o Enpoint Name Resolution Protocol (ENRP) (none) + Generalized Mobile IPv4 Extension (ipv6) o IPv6 Flow Label Specification (tewg) o Use of Interior Gateway Protocol Metric as a second MPLS Traffic Engineering Metric (dnsext) o Limiting the Scope of the KEY Resource Record out (ldapext) o LDAP Control for a Duplicate Entry Representation of Search Results (mpls) o LSP Hierarchy with Generalized MPLS TE (sipping) + Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Requirements for the Session Initiation Protocol (none) + Mapping Between NFSv4 and Posix Draft ACLs (none) + DHCP Option for SNMP Notifications (none) + ISATAP interactions with TSP (none) + Light-weight Flow Accounting Protocol MIB (none) + An enhancement for limiting the length of tunnel in the fast handover method using bi-directional edge tunnel (BET) (dnsext) + DNS Extensions to support IP version 6 (dhc) o Encoding Long Options in DHCPv4 (tewg) o A Framework for Internet Traffic Engineering Measurement (mpls) o Framework for MPLS-based Recovery (none) + Robust Header Compression (ROHC) over Wireless Ethernet Media ROHCoWEM (krb-wg) o Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos (none) o SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (none) + Evaluation of Transition Mechanisms for Unmanaged Networks (mobileip) o Registration Revocation in Mobile IPv4 (ngtrans) o Unmanaged Networks Transition Scope (none) o Transition Scenarios for ISP Networks (none) o Diameter Mobile IPv6 Application (none) o SIP Extension for Multiparty Conferencing (none) + IPPM spatial metrics measurement (none) o The application/smil and application/smil+xml Media Types (pkix) o Wireless LAN Certificate Extensions and Attributes (none) o Assignment of the 'OAM Alert Label' for MPLS Operation and Maintenance (OAM) functions (none) + Transition Scenarios for 3GPP Networks (none) + Transcoding Services Invocation in the Session Initiation Protocol (none) + The source and sink attributes for the Session Description Protocol (sip) + Internet Media Type message/sipfrag (idr) o AS-wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4 (none) o A Framework for Purpose Built Keys (PBK) (none) o Services in the PSTN/IN Requesting InTernet Services (SPIRITS) protocol security (rmt) o Forward Error Correction building block (rmt) o The use of Forward Error Correction in Reliable Multicast (none) + IRC Command Prefix Capability (bmwg) o Benchmarking Methodology for Firewall Performance (ccamp) o Link Management Protocol (LMP) for DWDM Optical Line Systems (pppext) o Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) (none) + A Quality-of-Service Resource Allocation Client for CASP (none) + CASP - Cross-Application Signaling Protocol (none) o PPP V.44 Compression Protocol (none) + Subscription Data Format (DRAFT) (ipv6) o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (sip) o Session Initiation Protocol Extension for Instant Messaging (none) o Registration of xmlns Media Feature Tag (none) + A Simple Analysis of Mobile IP v4 (none) + IRC RPL_ISUPPORT Numeric Definition (none) o The 'tag' URI scheme and URN namespace (tewg) o TE LSAs to extend OSPF for Traffic Engineering (none) + 'A compendium of enumservice registrations' (none) o Object Oriented PDUs for SNMP (ipoib) o Definition of Managed Objects for the Infiniband Subnet Management Agent (SMA) (webdav) o HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring - WebDAV RFC2518 bis (isis) o Point-to-point operation over LAN in link-state routing protocols (none) o The Hashed URI (none) + Simultaneous Handoff in Mobile-IPv4 and 802.11 (none) + Marker PDU Aligned Framing for TCP Specification (none) + Open Network Handles Implemented in DNS (none) + An RDMA Protocol Specification (none) + General Requirements for Emergency Telecommunication Service (none) + IP Telephony Requirements for Emergency Telecommunication Service (none) + Evaluation Of NetFlow Version 9 Against IPFIX Requirements (none) o application/xenc+xml Media Type Registration (sip) o Compressing the Session Initiation Protocol (none) o A Proposal for ICMP 'Authentication Required' Messages (isis) o IS-IS Automatic Encapsulation (none) o TCP Congestion Control with Appropriate Byte Counting (none) + Direct Data Placement over Reliable Transports (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure: Logotypes in X.509 certificates (none) o The Binary Low-Overhead Block Presentation Protocol (ccamp) o Link Management Protocol (LMP) (rmonmib) o Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for High Capacity Alarms (l2tpext) o L2TP Tunnel Switching (none) o VeriSign Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 2.0.0 (none) + Experience of the BRAIN and MIND Projects in the Development of IP Mobility Solutions (none) o Computing the CHECKIN URI in WebDAV versioning (none) o The Resource Catalog (ngtrans) o Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through NATs (none) + Customer Managed Gateway Selection for RFC2547 VPN(s) (none) + The MPLS Working Group decision on MPLS signaling protocols (none) + SDP attribute for qualifying Media Formats with Generic Parameters (none) + A Base-85 Encoding Suitable for XML (none) + IEPREP Topology Scenarios (none) + Autonomous System Confederations for BGP (none) + General Considerations For MIDCOM Semantics (none) + Directory Administrative Model in LDAP (none) + SIP PSTN Number Association (none) o Basic and Simplified Access Control in LDAP (none) o Access Control Administration in LDAP (opsarea) o Textual Conventions for Transport Addresses (ipsec) o Using AES Counter Mode With IPsec ESP (dnsext) o Handling of Unknown DNS RR Types (none) o UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 (bmwg) o Benchmarking Methodology for Basic OSPF Convergence (ips) o Securing Block Storage Protocols over IP (none) o On the Difference between Information Models and Data Models (bmwg) + Benchmarking Applicability for Basic OSPF Convergence (none) o Protected EAP Protocol (PEAP) (ipv6) o Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6 (none) + MIPv6 Care of Address Option (mpls) o Graceful Restart Mechanism for LDP (none) o SASL in HTTP/1.1 (sacred) o Securely Available Credentials - Credential Server Framework (ipv6) o Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver (disman) + Notification Log MIB (tls) + Transport Layer Security Protocol Compression Methods (mobileip) + Using IPsec to Protect Mobile IPv6 Signaling between Mobile Nodes and Home Agents (none) + SIP Specific Data Publication Framework (none) + DNSSEC Wildcard optimization (avt) + Internet Low Bit Rate Codec (none) o Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages (none) o Counter with CBC-MAC (CCM) (ospf) o Detecting Inactive Neighbors over OSPF Demand Circuits (none) + A UUID URN Namespace (ipv6) o Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 (secsh) o SSH Transport Layer Protocol (none) o Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF (none) + Using PPPoE to authenticate Wireless LAN (none) o Basic MGCP Packages (ips) o Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) (ftpext) o Extensions to FTP (secsh) o SSH Connection Protocol (none) o A URN Namespace for MPEG (secsh) o SSH Authentication Protocol (ipv6) o A Flexible Method for Managing the Assignment of Bites of an IPv6 Address Block (avt) o The MIDI Wire Protocol Packetization (MWPP) (secsh) o SSH Protocol Architecture (none) o Time Efficient context Transfer (TEXT) (bridge) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering and Virtual LAN Extensions (adslmib) o Definitions of Extension Managed Objects for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines (none) o The UDP Multicast Tunneling Protocol (none) + The 'microsoft-com' URN Namespace (none) + Enhanced Internet Protocol Specification (adslmib) o High Capacity Textual Conventions for MIB Modules Using Performance History Based on 15 Minute Intervals (adslmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Lines (VDSL) (none) + Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 802.11 Networks (sipping) o Requirements for Content Indirection in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Messages (none) + Application of Paul Robinson for CLEC permit (none) o LDP and RSVP Extensions for Optical UNI Signaling (dhc) o DHCP Options for Internet Storage Name Service (magma) + Source Address Selection for Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol (RFC 2710) (pkix) o The PKIX UserGroupName GeneralName Type (none) + IPv6 Enterprise Networks Scenarios (ips) o Bootstrapping Clients using the iSCSI Protocol (none) + Firewalling Considerations for IPv6 (none) + Generic Requirements for Provider Provisioned VPN (none) + URN Namespace for NewsML Resources (idwg) o Intrusion Detection Mesage Exchange Requirements (zeroconf) o Requirements for Automatic Configuration of IP Hosts (idn) o Internationalizing Domain Names In Applications (IDNA) (dnsext) o TKEY Secret Key Renewal Mode (none) o Zyfer's StealthKey Management for frequent rekeying (none) o Preparation of Internationalized Strings ('stringprep') (smime) o Examples of S/MIME Messages (idmr) o Multicast Router Discovery (vpim) o Critical Content MIME Parameter (none) + On Transport of Configuration Information (none) o Data Transfer Protocol for Distributed Information Acquisition (DTP/DIA) (mpls) o Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP with MPLS (none) + Extensible Provisioning Protocol Over SOAP (idwg) o The Intrusion Detection Exchange Protocol (IDXP) (disman) o Alarm Report Control MIB (none) + DIAMETER Application for Mobile-IPv4 and 802.11 Authentication (none) + A MAPOS NSP (Node Switch Protocol) Multicast Expansion - NSP+ (megaco) o Gateway Control Protocol Version 1 (rmonmib) o Definition of Managed Objects for Synthetic Sources for Performance Monitoring Algorithms. (gsmp) o Requirements For Adding Optical Support To GSMPv3 (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - MULTIAPPEND EXTENSION (none) + Select PDU for SNMPv3 (ospf) o Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF Version 2 (mobileip) o Mobile IP NAT/NAPT Traversal using UDP Tunnelling (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 (sacred) o Securely Available Credentials Protocol (ipo) o Impairments And Other Constraints On Optical Layer Routing (none) + ISP requirements for IPv6 unmanaged networks (none) + Guidelines for Working Groups on Intellectual Property Issues (none) + Guidelines for Integrating Mobile IP with NAPT (none) o Protocol Extension for Support of ATM Service Class-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (disman) o Alarm MIB (none) + Applicability Statement for Restart Mechanisms for the Label Distribution Protocol (none) o Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) RSVP-TE Usage and Extensions For Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) (l2tpext) o L2TP Active Discovery Relay for PPPoE (sip) + An Extension to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for Symmetric Response Routing (webdav) o WebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol (krb-wg) o The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5) (dnsext) o Delegation Signer Resource Record (ips) o iSCSI Naming and Discovery (none) + DNS look-up for services related to a URI (ips) o Finding FCIP Entities Using SLPv2 (none) + Architecture and Protocol framework for Dormant Mode Host Alerting (ips) o iSCSI (mpls) o Fault Tolerance for the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) (none) + Architectural Framework for Global and Localized Mobility Management (ipfix) o Requirements for IP Flow Information Export