IETF Progress Report 01-Jan-04 to 31-Jan-04 1) 24 IESG Protocol Actions this period Securely Available Credentials - Credential Server Framework (Informational) Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Proxy Certificate Profile (Proposed Standard) Wave and Equation Based Rate Control building block (Experimental) Securely Available Credentials Protocol (Proposed Standard) Link Management Protocol (LMP) for Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Optical Line Systems (Proposed Standard) Best Current Practices for Third Party Call Control in the Session Initiation Protocol (BCP) SONET/SDH Encoding for Link Management Protocol (LMP) Test messages (Proposed Standard) Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core (Proposed Standard) Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Application Area Standards (Informational) Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Operations & Management Area Standards (Informational) Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Internet Area Standards (Informational) Introduction to the Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Standards (Informational) Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Routing Area Standards (Informational) Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Security Area Standards (Informational) Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Sub-IP Area Standards (Informational) Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Transport Area Standards (Informational) Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures (BCP) The Multicast Security Architecture (Informational) Stateless DHCP Service for IPv6 (Proposed Standard) Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks (BCP) The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery Algorithm (Proposed Standard) Indicating User Agent Capabilities in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (Proposed Standard) Limited Slow-Start for TCP with Large Congestion Windows (Experimental) Mobile IPv4 Extension for AAA Network Access Identifiers (Proposed Standard) 2) 14 IESG Last Calls issued to the IETF this period INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT AND THREAD EXTENSION (Proposed Standard) The SPIRITS (Services in PSTN requesting Internet services) Protocol (Proposed Standard) Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange for the SSH Transport Layer Protocol (Proposed Standard) Restart signaling for IS-IS (Informational) The Authentication Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option (Proposed Standard) Use of the PSS Signature Algorithm in CMS (Proposed Standard) DHCP Subscriber ID Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option (Proposed Standard) Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure: Qualified Certificates Profile (Proposed Standard) IETF Problem Resolution Process (Informational) OPES Callout Protocol Core (Proposed Standard) Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA) (Proposed Standard) Using an LSA Options Bit to Prevent Looping in BGP/MPLS IP VPNs (Proposed Standard) A No Soliciting SMTP Service Extension (Proposed Standard) ASN.1 Module Definition for the LDAP & X.500 Component Matching Rules (Proposed Standard) 3) 3 New Working Group(s) formed this period Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (capwap) IP over DVB (ipdvb) Profiling Use of PKI in IPSEC (pki4ipsec) 4) 6 Working Group(s) concluded this period Extensions to FTP (ftpext) Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (msdp) Performance Implications of Link Characteristics (pilc) General Switch Management Protocol (gsmp) XML Digital Signatures (xmldsig) IP over Optical (ipo) 5) 265 new or revised Internet-Drafts this period (o - Revised Internet-Draft; + - New Internet-Draft) WG I-D Title ------- ------------------------------------------ (webdav) o WebDAV Access Control Protocol (tls) o ECC Cipher Suites For TLS (isis) o Management Information Base for IS-IS (none) o Sieve -- IMAP flag Extension (bmwg) o Methodology for IP Multicast Benchmarking (calsch) o Calendar Access Protocol (CAP) (ipsec) o Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements For ESP And AH (sip) o Session Timers in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (ldup) o The LDUP Replication Update Protocol (bgmp) o Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol Specification (none) o Determining Strengths For Public Keys Used For Exchanging Symmetric Keys (spirits) o The SPIRITS (Services in PSTN requesting Internet services) Protocol (ospf) o OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Permanent Identifier (rmonmib) o Transport Performance Metrics MIB (zeroconf) o Dynamic Configuration of Link-Local IPv4 Addresses (none) o Using the Elliptic Curve Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) for XML Digital Signatures (dnsext) o Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) (rmt) o NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast Protocol (NORM) (ldapbis) o LDAP: The Protocol (none) o History of the IEEE 802/IETF Relationship (disman) o Alarm MIB (mboned) o Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8 (grow) o BGP Communities for Data Collection (mip4) o Low latency Handoffs in Mobile IPv4 (none) o Analysis of the Security of BGP/MPLS IP VPNs (none) o Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) (none) o SMB Filesharing URL Scheme (none) o SMTP operational experience in mixed IPv4/IPv6 environements (pwe3) o Requirements for Pseudo-Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) (msec) o MSEC Group Key Management Architecture (none) o An IPv6 Provider-Independent Global Unicast Address Format (none) o Publicly Verifiable Nomcom Random Selection (idr) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4),Second Version (l3vpn) o MPLS/BGP Layer 3 Virtual Private Network Management Information Base Using (isis) o Restart signaling for IS-IS (ipfix) o Requirements for IP Flow Information Export (rmonmib) o Definition of Managed Objects for Synthetic Sources for Performance Monitoring Algorithms. (ipoib) o Definition of Textual Conventions and OBJECT-IDENTITIES for IP Over InfiniBand (IPOVERIB) Management (none) o A Media Resource Control Protocol Developed by Cisco, Nuance, and Speechworks. (ipsec) o Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol (none) o Extended RTP Profile for RTCP-based Feedback - Results of the Timing Rule Simulations (rohc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Robus Header Compression (none) o Registration of GSTN SMS Service Qualifier (none) o The 'application/soap+xml' media type (atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types (simple) o Requirements for Presence Specific Event Notification Filtering (none) o URI scheme for GSM Short Message Service (avt) + RTP Payload Format for H.261 Video Streams (ipoib) o Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (tewg) o Protocol extensions for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (mboned) o Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Deployment Scenarios (none) o OSPF Link-local Signaling (none) o OSPF Out-of-band LSDB resynchronization (none) o OSPF Restart Signaling (avt) o RTP Retransmission Payload Format (sipping) o Best Current Practices for Third Party Call Control in the Session Initiation Protocol (bmwg) o OSPF Benchmarking Terminology and Concepts (none) o Localized RSVP (none) o Cisco Systems NetFlow Services Export Version 9 (pwe3) o Pseudo Wire (PW) Management Information Base (pwe3) o Definitions for Textual Conventions and OBJECT-IDENTITIES for Pseudo-Wires Management (none) o Synchronization operations for disconnected IMAP4 clients (isis) o TLV for Experimental Use (forces) o Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Framework (entmib) o Entity MIB (Version 3) (none) o Sieve -- 'body' extension (none) o Bandwidth Constraints Models for Diffserv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering: Performance Evaluation (ipv6) o IP Forwarding Table MIB (ccamp) o Recovery (Protection and Restoration) Terminology for GMPLS (mboned) o Unicast-Prefix-based IPv4 Multicast Addresses (ipv6) o Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP) (sipping) o Session Initiation Protocol Torture Test Messages (speechsc) o Requirements for Distributed Control of ASR, SI/SV and TTS Resources (none) + Hierarchical IPv6 Subnet ID Autoconfiguration for Multi-Address Model Multi-Link Multihoming Site (psamp) o A Framework for Passive Packet Measurement (tls) o Transport Layer Security Protocol Compression Methods (none) o IRC RPL_ISUPPORT Numeric Definition (none) o Grace LSA in OSPFv3 (pkix) o Additional Algorithms and Identifiers for RSA Cryptography for use in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile (avt) o RTP Payload Format for Uncompressed Video (l2tpext) o Transport of Ethernet Frames over L2TPv3 (tewg) o Russian Dolls Bandwidth Constraints Model for Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (none) o Reorder Density Function - Metric for packet reordering measurement (none) o Requirements for Assured Service Capabilities in Voice over IP (none) o Architecture for Assured Service Capabilities in Voice over IP (none) o Examples for Provision of Preferential Treatment in Voice over IP (v6ops) o Analysis on IPv6 Transition in 3GPP Networks (xmpp) o Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Instant Messaging and Presence (midcom) o MIDCOM Protocol Semantics (ipfix) o Evaluation of Candidate Protocols for IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) (seamoby) o Candidate Access Router Discovery (seamoby) o Context Transfer Protocol (iptel) o Representing trunk groups in tel/sip URIs (dnsop) o Operational Considerations and Issues with IPv6 DNS (l3vpn) o Generic Requirements for Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Networks (xmpp) o Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core (rddp) o The Architecture of Direct Data Placement (DDP)And Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)On Internet Protocols (rddp) o RDMA over IP Problem Statement (none) o Policy Core Extension LDAP Schema (PCELS) (none) o The EAP GPRS Protocol (EAP-GPRS) (ips) o SCSI Command Ordering Considerations with iSCSI (mpls) o Encapsulating MPLS in IP or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) (dhc) o DHCP Subscriber ID Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option (sipping) o Interworking between SIP and QSIG (avt) + RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+) (entmib) o Entity State MIB (xmpp) o End-to-End Object Encryption in the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (pwe3) o Requirements for Edge-to-Edge Emulation of TDM Circuits over Packet Switching Networks (PSN) (none) o A View on IPv6 Transition Architecture (hubmib) + Ethernet in the First Mile Copper (EFMCu) Interfaces MIB (none) o IPv6 Documentation Address (tewg) o Max Allocation with Reservation Bandwidth Constraint Model for MPLS/DiffServ TE & Performance Comparisons (sasl) o Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) (ips) o NAA naming format for iSCSI Node Names (opsarea) o Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses (mpls) o Requirements for Point to Multipoint extension to RSVP-TE (none) o Specifying time intervals in URI queries and fragments of time-based Web resources (BCP) (none) o The Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML), Version 2.0 (nntpext) o Using TLS with NNTP (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure: Qualified Certificates Profile (none) o RTSP Stream Switching (none) o Extensions to LMP for Flooding-based Fault Notification (msec) o The Multicast Security Architecture (none) o Pseudo Wire (PW) OAM Message Mapping (none) o Reliable Multicast Transport Building Block:Tree based ACK (TRACK) Mechanisms (none) o Reliable Multicast Transport Building Block: Tree Auto-Configuration (dhc) o Stateless DHCP Service for IPv6 (none) o Sieve -- 'copy' extension (none) o Sieve -- 'editheader' extension (mpls) o Traffic Engineering Link Management Information Base (simple) o Requirements for Filtering of Watcher Information (problem) o IETF Problem Resolution Process (dhc) o Node-Specific Client Identifiers for DHCPv4 (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure: Certification Path Building (simple) o Instant Message Sessions in SIMPLE (l2vpn) o Virtual Private LAN Service (none) o Verizon Wireless Dynamic Mobile IP Key Update for cdma2000(R) Networks (tewg) o MPLS Inter-AS Traffic Engineering requirements (none) o Uniform Resource Locator Schemes for Internet Relay Chat Entities (none) o The Annodex annotation format for time-continuous bitstreams, Version 2.0 (sasl) o The CRAM-MD5 SASL Mechanism (none) o Avoid BGP Best Path Transition from One External to Another (pana) o PANA enabling IPsec based Access Control (none) o End-Host Mobility and Multi-Homing with Host Identity Protocol (tsvwg) o SCTP Partial Reliability Extension (bmwg) o Terminology for Benchmarking IGP Data Plane Route Convergence (ipfix) o IPFIX Protocol Specifications (none) o Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - URLAUTH Extension (none) o iSeries Telnet Enhancements (ospf) o Using an LSA Options Bit to Prevent Looping in BGP/MPLS IP VPNs (none) + 8+8 Addressing for IPv6 End to End Multihoming (tewg) o Maximum Allocation Bandwidth Constraints Model for Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (sip) o Indicating User Agent Capabilities in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (none) o Memorandum for multi-domain Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Interoperability (none) o iSCSI Extensions for RDMA Specification (none) o A No Soliciting SMTP Service Extension (none) + iCalendar Scheduling (none) o Datamover Architecture for iSCSI (DA) (none) + Home Agent Filtering for Mobile IPv6 (l3vpn) o Framework for PPVPN Operations and Management (none) o Support of address families in OSPFv3 (opes) o HTTP adaptation with OPES (dhc) o Detection of Network Attachment (DNA) in IPv4 (none) o Compound Procedures for SPAM Control (ipv6) o Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (krb-wg) o The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism: Version 2 (sip) o Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Extension for Event State Publication (speechsc) o Media Resource Control Protocol Version 2(MRCPv2) (simple) o Partial Notification of Presence Information (iab) o The IETF in the Large: Administration and Execution (none) o Internationalization of Email Addresses (pwe3) o Structure-Agnostic TDM over Packet (SAToP) (mpls) o Encoding of Attributes for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Path (LSP) Establishment Using RSVP-TE (sipping) o The Early Session Disposition Type for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (ospf) o Graceful OSPF Restart Implementation Report (send) o SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) (none) o MRCP Extensions: Media Resource Control Protocol Extensions (none) o The application/pdf Media Type (avt) o RTP Payload Format for MIDI (avt) o An Implementation Guide for RTP MIDI (mipshop) o Localized Mobility Management Requirements (ipsec) o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol (lemonade) o Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) CATENATE Extension (ccamp) o Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) RSVP-TE Signalling in support of Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) (none) o Simple IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnel Establishment Procedure (STEP) (none) o RTP Payload for Text Conversation (mboned) o IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments (none) o Non-hierarchical MAP Discovery and Selection in HMIPv6 (none) o GMPLS Signaling Procedure For Egress Control (none) o Threats for Basic Network Mobility Support (NEMO threats) (syslog) o The syslog Protocol (xcon) o Requirements for Conference Policy Control Protocol (ipsec) o Initial IANA registry contents (none) o IETF Session Minutes and Presentation Materials -- Post Meeting WG Chair Duties and Responsibilities (none) + Tags for Languages (none) + Gap Analysis for Meeting Emergency Telecommunications Service (ETS) Requirements with DIFFSERV and MPLS in a Single IP Telephony Domain (none) + UDT: A Transport Protocol for Data Intensive Applications (none) o Requirements for ECRTP over MPLS (none) + Message Submission (none) + MPLS Inter-area Traffic Engineering requirements (sip) + Obtaining and Using Globally Routable User Agent (UA) URIs (GRUU) in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (none) + Discovering PIM-SM Next-Nexthop Downstream Nodes (rserpool) + Services Provided By Reliable Server Pooling (none) o DHCP Proxy Server Micro-block Allocation Scheme For IP Address Pool Management (none) + LIN6: A Solution to Multihoming and Mobility in IPv6 (hubmib) + Managed Objects for the Ethernet Passive Optical Networks (none) + ASN.1 Module Definition for the LDAP & X.500 Component Matching Rules (none) + Transition from RFC2131-style to RFC3315-style Client Identifiers for DHCPv4 (none) + On Demand Tunneling For Multihoming (iab) + Internet Denial of Service Considerations (xcon) + Requirements for Floor Control Protocol (none) + The 'dns' Media Type Registration Tree (ieprep) + ETS Requirements for a Single Administrative Domain (ieprep) + A Framework for Supporting ETS Within a Single Administrative Domain (none) + Enhancing SMTP Mail Services To Minimize SPAM (eap) + Network Discovery and Selection Problem (none) + Datagram Transport Layer Security (none) + SixXS Heartbeat Protocol (sipping) + Extending the Session Initiation Protocol Reason Header for Preemption Events (none) + Layer 2 VPNs Over Tunnels (mip4) + Mobile IPv4 Dynamic Home Agent Assignment (none) + TIPC: Transparent Inter Process Communication Protocol (geopriv) + A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format (none) + The SEED Encryption Algorithm (pkix) + A 224-bit One-way Hash Function: SHA-224 (none) + RTP Retransmission Using Reactive FEC (none) + Hierarchical Mobile Router Advertisement for nested mobile networks (none) + Multiple protocol support in getnameinfo API (none) + A Supplementary Scheme for New Care-of Address Configuration and Confirmation in FMIPv6 (none) + BGP/MPLS IP VPNs over Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol ver 3 (none) + MAC Forced Forwarding: An ARP proxy method for ensuring traffic separation between hosts sharing an Ethernet access network (none) + MAC Forced Forwarding: An ARP proxy method for ensuring traffic separation between hosts sharing an Ethernet access network (none) + TCP Configurable Signature Option (none) o Inter-Area MPLS Path Protection (grow) + Operational Concerns and Considerations for Routing Protocol Design -- Risk, Interference, and Fit (RIFT) (none) + XML+RPC - XML encapsulated Remote Procedure Calls over HTTP (none) + Ncc in SMTP (ipv6) + IP Tunnel MIB (l2vpn) + Radius/L2TP Based VPLS (none) + A Proposal for a Tag Value field in OSPF (none) + BGP Proxy Community Community (simple) + Presence Information Data format (PIDF) Extension for Partial Presence (ipsp) + IPsec Security Policy Database Configuration MIB (ipsp) + IPsec Security Policy IPsec Action MIB (ipsp) + IPsec Security Policy IKE Action MIB (none) + 6to4 Reverse DNS (none) + PIM-SM Multicast Routing Security Issues and Enhancements (none) + draft-nikander-multi6-hip-00 (none) + Enhancements to OSPF Graceful Restart for Heterogeneous Environments (dhc) + Reclassifying DHCPv4 Options (none) + A Cleaner SMTP Envelope for Internet Mail (none) + Comment responses for Marker PDU Aligned Framing for TCP Specification (none) + Encapsulating MPLS in IPsec (none) + MPing: A Ping Utility for IP Multicast (none) + Applicability Statement for Provider Provisioned CE-based Virtual Private Networks using IPsec (none) + Proactive Approach for Detecting Network Attachment (none) + Mobility and Internet Signaling Protocols (none) + Optimized Mobile IPv4 UDP Encapsulation (none) + OSPF Multi-Area Adjacency (none) + Network-initiated Handover Framework for FMIPv6 (none) + Fibre-Channel Domain Management MIB (none) + Fibre-Channel Name Server MIB (none) + The EAP PSK Protocol (none) + Guide to Mapping IPv4 to IPv6 Subnets 6) 14 RFC produced this period S - Standard; PS - Proposed Standard; DS - Draft Standard; B - Best Current Practices; E - Experimental; I - Informational RFC Stat WG Published Title ------- -- -------- ---------- ----------------------------------------- RFC3634 S (dhc) Jan 04 KDC Server Address Sub-option RFC3671 S (none) Jan 04 Collective Attributes in LDAP RFC3672 S (none) Jan 04 Subentries in LDAP RFC3660 I (none) Jan 04 Basic MGCP Packages RFC3661 I (none) Jan 04 Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Return Code Usage RFC3621 S (hubmib) Jan 04 Power Ethernet MIB RFC3665 B (sipping) Jan 04 Session Initiation Protocol Basic Call Flow Examples RFC3666 B (sipping) Jan 04 Session Initiation Protocol PSTN Call Flows RFC3657 S (smime) Jan 04 Use of the Camellia Encryption Algorithm in CMS RFC3670 S (policy) Jan 04 Information Model for Describing Network Device QoS Datapath Mechanisms RFC3664 S (ipsec) Jan 04 The AES-XCBC-PRF-128 algorithm for IKE RFC3678 I (magma) Jan 04 Socket Interface Extensions for Multicast Source Filters RFC3681 B (none) Jan 04 Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA RFC3679 I (dhc) Jan 04 Unused DHCP Option Codes 7 Standards Track; 3 BCP; 0 Experimental; 4 Informational