IETF Progress Report 1-Sep-04 to 30-Sep-04 1) 33 IESG Protocol Actions this period Examples of S/MIME Messages (Informational) OSPF Refresh and Flooding Reduction in Stable Topologies (Informational) Policy Based Management MIB (Proposed Standard) Telephony Signalling Transport over SCTP applicability statement (Informational) Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) (Proposed Standard) Analysis of the Security of BGP/MPLS IP VPNs (Informational) Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) (Experimental) Point-to-point operation over LAN in link-state routing protocols (Informational) Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol (Proposed Standard) RADIUS Attributes Sub-option for the DHCP Relay Agent Information Option (Proposed Standard) The Authentication Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option (Proposed Standard) Maximum Transmission Unit Signalling Extensions for the Label Distribution Protocol (Experimental) Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Redirect and Reset Package (Informational) Protocol for Carrying Authentication and Network Access Threat Analysis and Security Requirements (Informational) Candidate Access Router Discovery (Experimental) Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Lockstep State Reporting Mechanism (Informational) DHCP Subscriber ID Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option (Proposed Standard) T11 Network Address Authority (NAA) naming format for iSCSI Node Names (Proposed Standard) Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses (Proposed Standard) Cryptographic Suites for IPsec (Proposed Standard) SASLprep: Stringprep profile for user names and passwords (Proposed Standard) A method for storing IPsec keying material in DNS (Proposed Standard) RObust Header Compression (ROHC):Profiles for UDP-Lite (Proposed Standard) Cryptographic Algorithms for use in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (Proposed Standard) OPES Callout Protocol Core (Proposed Standard) Diameter Credit-control Application (Proposed Standard) IANA Registration for ENUMservices web and ft (Proposed Standard) A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format (Proposed Standard) GMPLS Signaling Procedure For Egress Control (Proposed Standard) CAPWAP Problem Statement (Informational) Provider Provissioned VPN terminology (Informational) Use of the SEED Encryption Algorithm in Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) (Proposed Standard) Instructions for Seamoby Experimental Protocol IANA Allocations (Experimental) 2) 15 IESG Last Calls issued to the IETF this period Connection-Oriented Media Transport in the Session Description Protocol (SDP) (Proposed Standard) DNS Security Introduction and Requirements (Proposed Standard) Link Management Protocol Management Information Base (Proposed Standard) Fibre Channel Management MIB (Proposed Standard) Source-Specific Multicast for IP (Proposed Standard) Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions (Proposed Standard) Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions (Proposed Standard) ISDN Q.921-User Adaptation Layer (Proposed Standard) Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through NATs (Proposed Standard) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) (Proposed Standard) GMPLS Signaling Procedure For Egress Control (Proposed Standard) Terminology for Describing Internet Connectivivy (BCP) The Use of Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) in IPsec ESP (Proposed Standard) RFC 1888 is obsolete (Informational) MIME Sub-type Registrations for FITS (Informational) 3) 2 New Working Group(s) formed this period Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance (behave) Integrated Security Model for SNMP (isms) 4) 3 Working Group(s) concluded this period Calendaring and Scheduling (calsch) Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (impp) MTA Authorization Records in DNS (marid) 5) 246 new or revised Internet-Drafts this period (o - Revised Internet-Draft; + - New Internet-Draft) WG I-D Title ------- ------------------------------------------ (idr) o A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) (none) + Generic Security Service API Version 2 : Java & C# Bindings (none) o Instructions to Request for Comments (RFC) Authors (nntpext) o Network News Transport Protocol (ediint) o MIME-based Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange over the Internet Using HTTP AS2 (ipcdn) o Data Over Cable System Interface Specification Quality of Service Management Information Base (DOCSIS-QOS MIB) (ipcdn) o Management Information Base for Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) Cable Modem Termination Systems for Subscriber Management (ipcdn) o Management Information Base for DOCSIS Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems for Baseline Privacy Plus (isis) o Routing IPv6 with IS-IS (avt) o Tunneling Multiplexed Compressed RTP ('TCRTP') (imapext) + IMAP4 ACL extension - updated list of rights (none) + Extended Option Space for TCP (imapext) o IMAP4 LIST Command Extensions (dnsext) o Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) (mmusic) o SDP: Session Description Protocol (none) o Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Layer 2 Frames Over IP and MPLS Networks (none) o Domain Name System Uniform Resource Identifiers (mmusic) o Connection-Oriented Media Transport in the Session Description Protocol (SDP) (rohc) o Requirements for ROHC IP/TCP Header Compression (grow) o BGP Communities for Data Collection (rap) o COPS Over TLS (tsvwg) o Sockets API Extensions for Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) (tsvwg) o Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Implementer's Guide (dnsext) o DNS Security Introduction and Requirements (bridge) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (sigtran) o DPNSS/DASS 2 extensions to the IUA protocol (l3vpn) o BGP/MPLS IP VPNs (none) + A Framework for MPLS Operations (none) + Symmetric RTP and RTCP Considered Helpful (dna) + Link-layer Event Notifications for Detecting Network Attachments (l3vpn) o Use of PE-PE IPsec in RFC2547 VPNs (none) o Datatypes for WebDAV properties (avt) o RTP Payload Format for 3GPP Timed Text (ccamp) o Link Management Protocol Management Information Base (disman) o Event MIB (ipsec) o Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol (none) o Simple Middlebox Configuration (SIMCO) Protocol Version 3.0 (avt) o RTP Payload Format for H.261 Video Streams (ssm) o Source-Specific Multicast for IP (idr) o AS-wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4 (l3vpn) o Definition of Textual Conventions for Virtual Private Network (VPN) Management (dhc) o RADIUS Attributes Sub-option for the DHCP Relay Agent Information Option (mpls) o Fast Reroute Extensions to RSVP-TE for LSP Tunnels (dnsext) o Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions (krb-wg) o The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5) (none) o OSPF Link-local Signaling (none) o OSPF Out-of-band LSDB resynchronization (none) o OSPF Restart Signaling (ccamp) o Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Signaling Extensions for G.709 Optical Transport Networks Control (none) o Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) (l2tpext) o Fail Over extensions for L2TP 'failover' (none) o Localized RSVP (none) o Data Transfer Protocol for Distributed Information Acquisition (DTP/DIA) (none) o HTTP Header Field Registrations (none) o Synchronization operations for disconnected IMAP4 clients (l3vpn) o Applicability Statement for BGP/MPLS IP VPNs (none) o Quick-Start for TCP and IP (pwe3) o SONET/SDH Circuit Emulation over Packet (CEP) (pwe3) o Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Ethernet Frames Over IP/MPLS Networks (pwe3) o Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance using LDP (tsvwg) o The Eifel Response Algorithm for TCP (webdav) o Binding Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) (ipcdn) o Network-Based Call Signaling (NCS) Signaling MIB for PacketCable and IPCablecom Multimedia Terminal Adapters (MTAs) (none) o DCLOR: De-correlated Loss Recovery using SACK option for spurious timeouts (none) + Reasons to Deprecate NAT-PT (none) + A string encoding of Presentation Address (pwe3) o Encapsulation Methods for Transport of ATM Over MPLS Networks (pwe3) o IANA Allocations for pseudo Wire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3) (dnsext) o Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions (none) o LDAP Content Synchronization Operation (nsis) o RSVP Security Properties (sip) o Enhancements for Authenticated Identity Management in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (none) o Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax (seamoby) o Candidate Access Router Discovery (dhc) o DHCP Subscriber ID Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option (avt) o RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+) (entmib) o Entity State MIB (none) o Using CMS to Protect Firmware Packages (sasl) o Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism (rddp) o An RDMA Protocol Specification (dhc) o Subnet Allocation using DHCP (v6ops) o Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers (mpls) o Requirements for Point to Multipoint Traffic Engineered MPLS LSPs (nntpext) o Using TLS with NNTP (none) o Sieve -- Variables Extension (none) o Bundle Protocol Specification (mpls) o OAM Requirements for MPLS Networks (l2vpn) o Service Requirements for Layer 2 Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Networks (none) o Advertising Equal Cost MultiPath routes in BGP (nfsv4) o RPC Numbering Authority Transfer to IANA (nfsv4) o RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2 (tewg) o MPLS Inter-AS Traffic Engineering requirements (rddp) o Applicability of Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol (RDMA)and Direct Data Placement (DDP) (pana) o PANA enabling IPsec based Access Control (none) o The Flat Multicast Key Exchange protocol (rohc) o RObust Header Compression (ROHC):Context Replication for ROHC Profiles (l2vpn) o Virtual Private LAN Services over MPLS (sip) o Communications Resource Priority for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (none) o An ENUM Registry Type for the Internet Registry Information Service (none) o Seamless Multicast Handover in a Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Environment (M-HMIPv6) (l3vpn) o Framework for L3VPN Operations and Management (none) o Detecting and Reacting to Failures of the Full Mesh in IPLS and VPLS (idr) o Experience with the BGP-4 Protocol (ipv6) o Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (none) o LDP signaled LSPs for external prefixes (l2vpn) o Provisioning Models and Endpoint Identifiers in L2VPN Signaling (none) o A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (rddp) o Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Direct Data Placement (DDP) Adaptation (eap) o State Machines for Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Peer and Authenticator (none) o The TV-Anytime Content Reference Identifier (CRID) Uniform Resource Locator (netconf) o Using the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) Over the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) (none) o PWE3 Congestion Control Framework (dnsop) o IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches (none) o Cost optimization based on Enterprise-ENUM (multi6) o Threats relating to IPv6 multihoming solutions (mip6) o Mobile IPv6 Management Information Base (ipsec) o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol (none) + Goals for AAA-HA interface (iesg) o Standards Maturity Variance Regarding the TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) and the BGP-4 Specification (sip) o Update to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Preconditions Framework (iab) o Writing Protocol Models (syslog) o The syslog Protocol (newtrk) + Internet Standards Documentation (ISDs) (mip4) o Experimental Message, Extension and Error Codes for Mobile IPv4 (none) o Calendar Server Extensions for WebDAV (CalDAV) (none) o Tags for Identifying Languages (none) o UDT: A Transport Protocol for Data Intensive Applications (hubmib) o Managed Objects of EPON (ieprep) o Emergency Telecommunications Services (ETS) Requirements for a Single Administrative Domain (ieprep) o A Framework for Supporting Emergency Telecommunications Services (ETS) Within a Single Administrative Domain (geopriv) o A Presence-based GEOPRIV Location Object Format (none) o MAC-Forced Forwarding: A Method for Traffic Separation on an Ethernet Access Network (v6ops) + IPv6 Enterprise Network Analysis (usefor) o News Article Architecture and Protocols (none) o The EAP-PSK Protocol: a Pre-Shared Key EAP Method (rtgwg) o The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) (none) o Email Submission Between Independent Networks (ltans) o Long term archive service requirements (capwap) o CAPWAP Problem Statement (sipping) o Transcoding Services Invocation in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Using Third Party Call Control (3pcc) (none) o Protected Entertainment Rights Management (PERM) (none) o ECN Nonces for Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) (geopriv) o A Presence Architecture for the Distribution of GEOPRIV Location Objects (none) o Procedure for Handling Liaison Statements Between Standards Bodies (magma) o Multicast Router Discovery (none) o Route tags in OSPFv3 (none) o OSPFv3 Destination Address Filter (none) + Internationalized Domain Names Registration and Administration Guidelines for Arabic Characters Group of Languages (Arabic, Persian, Urdu,...) (ipv6) o IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (mip6) o Extension to Sockets API for Mobile IPv6 (dhc) o Lifetime Option for DHCPv6 (syslog) o Transmission of syslog messages over UDP (l3vpn) o Provider Provissioned VPN terminology (ipv6) o Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for IPv6 (adslmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for G.shdsl.bis Lines (ccamp) o GMPLS - Communication of Alarm Information (none) o Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Security Threats (xcon) o An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) Usages for Conference Policy Manipulation and Conference Policy Privelges Manipulation (nntpext) o NNTP Extension for Authentication (pana) o PANA Framework (none) o Valuable Antique Documents: A Model for Advancement (avt) o Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload and File Storage Formats for the Variable-Rate Multimode Wideband (VMR-WB) Audio Codec (l3vpn) o Constrained VPN route distribution (pki4ipse) o The Internet IP Security PKI Profile of IKEv1/ISAKMP, IKEv2, and PKIX (dna) o Detecting Network Attachment in IPv6 Goals (none) + Time Zones in XML (none) o Advertisement of the Group Best Paths in BGP (none) + AAA Mobile IPv6 Application Framework (ipdvb) o A Framework for transmission of IP datagrams over MPEG-2 Networks (none) o Extending the Space Available for TCP Options (atompub) o The Atom Syndication Format (lemonade) o Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - URLAUTH Extension (usefor) o News Article Format (avt) + RTP Payload Format for H.263 using RFC2190 to Historic status (marid) o The SPF Record Format and Sender-ID Protocol (none) o TCP Extensions for Immediate Retransmissions (none) o EAP Password Authenticated Exchange (none) o Security Best Practices Efforts and Documents (none) o BinaryTime: An alternate format for representing date and time in ASN.1 (none) o ICMP attacks against TCP (none) o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs (mboned) o IPv6 Multicast Deployment Issues (none) o RFC 1888 is obsolete (none) o The file URI Scheme (none) o The ftp URI Scheme (none) o The gopher URI Scheme (none) o The news and nntp URI Schemes (none) o The prospero URI Scheme (none) o The telnet URI Scheme (none) o Goals for Zero-Configuration Tunneling (none) + IPv6 Tunnel End-point Automatic Discovery Mechanism (none) o Transporting Atom Notifications over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (none) o The wais URI Scheme (none) o Getting rid of the cruft: A procedure to deprecate old standards (none) + A Modification to Make PAWS Robust to Segment Reordering (none) o IETF Administrative Support Functions (ccamp) + Reoptimization of MPLS Traffic Engineering loosely routed LSP (none) + Interoperability between all NFS versions and local filesystem (none) + Marketing Buzzword "SIPPING 16" Considered Harmful (ccamp) + A Transport Network View of LMP (none) + STODER: A Reliable TCP Spurious Timeout Detection Algorithm using Repacketization (none) + MEGACO package for Push To Talk over Cellular (PoC) Networks (none) + Using Universal Content Identifier as Uniform Resource Names (none) + The NetIQ Common Agent Protocol (none) + Command Additions for Dynamic Authorization Extensions to Remote Authentication Dial-In User Services (RADIUS) (none) + MIME Sub-type Registrations for FITS (none) + The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force (none) + Addition of SEED Ciphersuites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) (none) + Network Address to support OSI over IPv6 (none) + Bounce Address Tag Validation (BATV) (rtgwg) + Loop-Free Alternates for IP/LDP Local Protection (none) + Multiparty Communication Parameters and Metrics (none) o OSI Directory IPv6 NSAPA Format (none) + BGP Wedgies (none) + Chargeable User Identity (none) + Service Provider requirements for PWs (none) + Calendar Access Protocol (CAP) (ips) + Datamover Architecture for iSCSI (DA) (none) o Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset (none) + Message Header for Indicating Sender Authentication Status (dhc) + Vendor-Specific Information Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option (none) + An Extended AAA Authorization Framework with Delegation (none) + Why Authentication Data suboption is needed for MIP6 (xcon) + Privileges for Manipulating a Conference Policy (xcon) + The Conference Policy Control Protocol (CPCP) (none) + Proposed RTP Control Protocol Extended Reports (RTCP XR) VoIP Metrics Management Information Base (ips) + iSCSI Extensions for RDMA Specification (marid) + Authorizing Use of Domains in MAIL FROM (none) + Overview of the Internet Multicast Addressing Architecture (none) o QoS Signaling in a Nested Virtual Private Network (l2vpn) + VPLS OAM Requirements and Framework (pwe3) + Pseudo Wire (PW) OAM Message Mapping (rohc) + ROHC LLA Implementer's Guide (ipv6) + Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 (none) + Path Computation Element (PCE) Architecture (dhc) + The DHCPv6 Client FQDN Option (none) + EAP Smart Card Protocol (EAP-SC) (none) + Request for the URN namespace "tib" for scientific primary data (dnsext) + Requirements related to DNSSEC Signed Proof of Non-Existence (mmusic) + The SDP (Session Description Protocol) Label Attribute (simple) + A Data Model for Presence (none) + Transporting WebDAV-Related Event Notifications over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (none) + Algorithms for Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) (forces) + ForCES Protocol Specification (nsis) + QoS-NSLP QSpec Template (none) + ENUM Validation Information Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol 6) 29 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 ------- -- -------- ---------- ----------------------------------------- RFC3835 I (opes) Sep 04 An Architecture for Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) RFC3836 I (opes) Sep 04 Requirements for OPES Callout Protocols RFC3879 S (ipv6) Sep 04 Deprecating Site Local Addresses RFC3876 S (none) Sep 04 Returning Matched Values with LDAPv3 RFC3874 I (pkix) Sep 04 A 224-bit One-way Hash Function: SHA-224 RFC3837 I (opes) Sep 04 Security Threats and Risks for Open RFC3838 I (opes) Sep 04 Policy, Authorization and Enforcement Requirements of OPES RFC3871 I (none) Sep 04 Operational Security Requirements for IP Network Infrastructure RFC3870 I (none) Sep 04 application/rdf+xml Media Type Registration RFC3912 S (none) Sep 04 WHOIS Protocol Specification RFC3905 I (ipr) Sep 04 A Template for IETF Patent Disclosures and Licensing Declarations RFC3901 B (dnsop) Sep 04 DNS IPv6 transport operational guidelines RFC3877 S (disman) Sep 04 Alarm MIB RFC3864 B (none) Sep 04 Registration procedures for message header fields RFC3897 I (opes) Sep 04 OPES entities and end points communication RFC3896 S (atommib) Sep 04 Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type RFC3865 S (none) Sep 04 A No Soliciting SMTP Service Extension RFC3872 S (iptel) Sep 04 Management Information Base for Telephony Routing over IP (TRIP) RFC3873 S (sigtran) Sep 04 Stream Control Transmission Protocol Management Information Base RFC3890 S (mmusic) Sep 04 A Transport Independent Bandwidth Modifier for the Session Description Protocol (SDP) RFC3895 S (atommib) Sep 04 Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E2 Interface Types RFC3884 I (none) Sep 04 Use of IPsec Transport Mode for Dynamic Routing RFC3878 S (disman) Sep 04 Alarm Reporting Control MIB RFC3891 S (sip) Sep 04 The Session Inititation Protocol (SIP) 'Replaces' Header RFC3892 S (sip) Sep 04 The SIP Referred-By Mechanism RFC3893 S (sip) Sep 04 SIP Authenticated Identity Body (AIB) Format RFC3904 I (v6ops) Sep 04 Evaluation of Transition Mechanisms for Unmanaged Networks RFC3913 I (bgmp) Sep 04 Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol Specification RFC3902 I (none) Sep 04 The 'application/soap+xml' media type 14 Standards Track; 2 BCP; 0 Experimental; 13 Informational