IETF Progress Report 1-Jan-05 to 31-Jan-05 1) 35 IESG Protocol Actions this period A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) (Draft Standard) Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fourth Version of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) (Proposed Standard) MIME-based Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange Using HTTP, Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) (Proposed Standard) Full-mode Fax Profile for Internet Mail: FFPIM (Proposed Standard) Management Information Base for DOCSIS Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems for Baseline Privacy Plus (Proposed Standard) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-H.323 Interworking Requirements (Informational) Addition of Camellia Ciphersuites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) (Proposed Standard) SMTP and MIME Extensions For Content Conversion (Proposed Standard) IPv4 Multihoming Motivation, Practices and Limitations (Informational) Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (Proposed Standard) Protocol extensions for support of Differentiated-Service-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (Proposed Standard) IP Authentication Header (Proposed Standard) Synchronization operations for disconnected IMAP4 clients (Informational) Extended Sequence Number Addendum to IPsec DOI for ISAKMP (Proposed Standard) A UUID URN Namespace (Proposed Standard) Russian Dolls Bandwidth Constraints Model for Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (Experimental) Using CMS to Protect Firmware Packages (Proposed Standard) Max Allocation with Reservation Bandwidth Constraint Model for MPLS/DiffServ TE & Performance Comparisons (Experimental) BGP-4 Protocol Analysis (Informational) Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure: Certification Path Building (Informational) MPLS Inter-AS Traffic Engineering requirements (Informational) Requirements for Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Signaling Usage and Extensions for Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) (Informational) Maximum Allocation Bandwidth Constraints Model for Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering (Experimental) BGP Security Vulnerabilities Analysis (Informational) Experience with the BGP-4 Protocol (Informational) State Machines for Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Peer and Authenticator (Informational) Standards Maturity Variance Regarding the TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) and the BGP-4 Specification (Informational) IAB Processes for management of liaison relationships (BCP) Procedures for handling liaison statements to and from the IETF (BCP) BGP MIB V1 implementation survey (Informational) BGP 4 Implementation Report (Informational) F-RTO: An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and SCTP (Experimental) Things MULTI6 Developers should think about (Informational) Simple New Mail Notification (Informational) Algorithms for Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) (Proposed Standard) 2) 18 IESG Last Calls issued to the IETF this period COPS Over TLS (Proposed Standard) Voucher Trading System Application Programming Interface (VTS-API) (Informational) Link Bundling in MPLS Traffic Engineering (Proposed Standard) Key Management Extensions for Session Description Protocol (SDP) and Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) (Proposed Standard) IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) metrics registry (BCP) Entity MIB (Version 3) (Proposed Standard) SIP Telephony Device Requirements and Configuration (Informational) Session Description Protocol Security Descriptions for Media Streams (Proposed Standard) Guidelines for Cryptographic Key Management (BCP) A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (Proposed Standard) Definitions of Managed Object Extensions for Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Lines (VDSL) Using Single Carrier Modulation (SCM) Line Coding (Proposed Standard) Definitions of Managed Object Extensions for Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Lines (VDSL) Using Multiple Carrier Modulation (MCM) Line Coding (Proposed Standard) Mobile IPv4 Dynamic Home Agent Assignment (Proposed Standard) IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (Draft Standard) Mediating Network Discovery in the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) (Informational) Message Submission (Draft Standard) The prospero URI Scheme (Historic) The wais URI Scheme (Historic) 3) 1 New Working Group(s) formed this period Path Computation Element (pce) 4) 1 Working Group(s) concluded this period Internet Traffic Engineering (tewg) 5) 263 new or revised Internet-Drafts this period (o - Revised Internet-Draft; + - New Internet-Draft) WG I-D Title ------- ------------------------------------------ (krb-wg) o Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos (ediint) o MIME-based Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange Using HTTP, Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) (ipcdn) o Data Over Cable System Interface Specification Quality of Service Management Information Base (DOCSIS-QOS MIB) (sip) o Management Information Base for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (none) o Randomness Requirements for Security (dhc) o The DHCP Client FQDN Option (ipcdn) o Event Notification Management Information Base for DOCSIS Compliant Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination Systems (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) (none) o Explicit Multicast (Xcast) Basic Specification (trade) o XML Voucher: Generic Voucher Language (ldapbis) o LDAP: Uniform Resource Locator (ospf) o Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF Packets and Congestion Avoidance (msec) o GSAKMP (none) o Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) (none) o SMB Filesharing URL Scheme (tsvwg) o Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ipv6) o Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes (none) o Source Address Selection Policy option for DHCPv6 (none) o OSPF-xTE: An experimental extension to OSPF for Traffic Engineering (fax) o SMTP and MIME Extensions For Content Conversion (bridge) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges (multi6) o IPv4 Multihoming Motivation, Practices and Limitations (bmwg) o Benchmarking Terminology for Routers Supporting Resource Reservation (l3vpn) o BGP-MPLS VPN extension for IPv6 VPN (avt) o RTP Payload Format for 3GPP Timed Text (none) + A URN namespace for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (ediint) o Compressed Data for EDIINT (none) o Including additional properties in WebDAV PROPFIND/allprop requests (none) o Registration of GSTN SMS Service Qualifier (none) o URI scheme for GSM Short Message Service (tls) o Using OpenPGP keys for TLS authentication (ipoib) o Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (none) o RADIUS Error Messages (none) o Domain Name System (DNS) Security Extensions Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) (mpls) o Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP with MPLS (rohc) o ROHC Implementer's Guide (ips) o Definitions of Managed Objects for User Identity Authentication (ipfix) o Architecture Model for IP Flow Information Export (none) o LDAP Schema for UDDIv3 (ipoib) o DHCP over InfiniBand (ccamp) o Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Signaling Extensions for G.709 Optical Transport Networks Control (avt) o RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and Telephony Signals (isis) o TLV for Experimental Use (none) o RTP Payload Format for Vorbis Encoded Audio (entmib) o Entity MIB (Version 3) (none) o Bandwidth Constraints Models for Diffserv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering: Performance Evaluation (none) o Guidelines for MPLS Load Balancing (msec) o HMAC-authenticated Diffie-Hellman for MIKEY (psamp) o A Framework for Packet Selection and Reporting (none) o A UUID URN Namespace (none) + Robust Enhancement to the Neighbor's Retransmission List when one or more LSA Checksum and length are in Error (webdav) o Binding Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) (webdav) o Quota and Size Properties for DAV Collections (none) o EAP-Support in Smartcard (ipcdn) o Multimedia Terminal Adapter (MTA) Management Information Base for PacketCable and IPCablecom compliant devices (dnsext) o Domain Name System (DNS) Case Insensitivity Clarification (rddp) o DDP and RDMA Concerns (none) o SIP Telephony Device Requirements and Configuration (rserpool) o Threats Introduced by Rserpool and Requirements for Security in response to Threats (rmonmib) o Real-time Application Quality of Service Monitoring (RAQMON) MIB (rmonmib) o Real-time Application Quality of Service Monitoring (RAQMON) Framework (rmonmib) o Transport Mappings for Real-time Application Quality of Service Monitoring (RAQMON) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) (entmib) o Entity State MIB (sasl) o The Plain SASL Mechanism (none) o Using CMS to Protect Firmware Packages (simple) o A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Notification Extension for Resource Lists (none) o LSP Preemption Policies for MPLS Traffic Engineering (none) o A Model of IPv6/IPv4 Dual Stack Internet Access Service (none) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures (nntpext) o Using TLS with NNTP (ipseckey) o A method for storing IPsec keying material in DNS (none) o Guidelines for Cryptographic Key Management (mpls) o Definition of an RRO node-id subobject (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure: Certification Path Building (l2vpn) o Virtual Private LAN Service (none) o Dual Stack IPv6 Dominant Transition Mechanism (DSTM) (nntpext) o NNTP Extension for Streaming Feeds (none) o Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through NATs (dnsext) o Clarifying the Role of Wild Card Domains in the Domain Name System (none) o MANET Extension of OSPF using CDS Flooding (none) + Kerberos Cryptosystem Negotiation Extension (none) o Tunnelling of QSIG over SIP (sip) o An Extension to the Session Initiation Protocol for Request History Information (none) o SIP Service Quality Reporting Event (simple) o An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Document Format for Indicating Changes in XML Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) Resources (none) o Memorandum for multi-domain Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Interoperability (none) o A URN Namespace for the TV-Anytime Forum (ospf) o Extensions to OSPF for Advertising Optional Router Capabilities (ipv6) o Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (l3vpn) o CE-to-CE Member Verification for Layer 3 VPNs (dhc) o DHCP Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) Suboptions (adslmib) o Definitions of Managed Object Extensions for Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Lines (VDSL) Using Single Carrier Modulation (SCM) Line Coding (adslmib) o Definitions of Managed Object Extensions for Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Lines (VDSL) Using Multiple Carrier Modulation (MCM) Line Coding (none) o The 'info' URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces (none) o Deflate transmission mode for FTP (none) o Analysis of Multihoming in Mobile IPv6 (vrrp) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the VRRP over IPv4 and IPv6 (none) o EPP parameters for 8.4.e164.arpa Registry (none) o The Standard Hexdump Format (none) o Authenticated Chunks for Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) (none) o Mobile IPv6 Internet-based Remote Interoperability Testing Description (multi6) o Threats relating to IPv6 multihoming solutions (ipdvb) o Ultra Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) for transmission of IP datagrams over MPEG-2/DVB networks (mip6) o Mobile IPv6 Management Information Base (avt) o Framing RTP and RTCP Packets over Connection-Oriented Transport (syslog) o The syslog Protocol (none) o Tags for Identifying Languages (xcon) o Requirements for Floor Control Protocol (v6ops) o IPv6 Enterprise Network Analysis (midcom) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Middlebox Communication (simple) o Functional Description of Event Notification Filtering (simple) o An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Based Format for Event Notification Filtering (none) o Congestion Notification Process for Real-Time Traffic (dnsop) o Requirements for Automated Key Rollover in DNSsec (none) o Procedures for handling liaison statements to and from the IETF (sip) o Problems identified associated with the Session Initiation Protocol's non-INVITE Transaction (sip) o Actions addressing identified issues with the Session Initiation Protocol's non-INVITE Transaction (none) o Bootstrapping RFC3118 Delayed DHCP Authentication Using EAP-based Network Access Authentication (none) o A note about 3rd party bombing in Mobile IPv6 (pwe3) o Structure-aware TDM Circuit Emulation Service over Packet Switched Network (CESoPSN) (dhc) o Information Refresh Time Option for DHCPv6 (none) o PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE) Extensions for Credit Flow and Link Metrics (ipv6) o Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection for IPv6 (none) o Analysis of IPv6 Tunnel End-point Discovery Mechanisms (none) o User Session Tracking in RADIUS (nntpext) o NNTP Extension for Authentication (none) o The APPLICATION/MBOX Media-Type (none) o Internet Mail Architecture (avt) o Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Formats for the Variable-Rate Multimode Wideband (VMR-WB) Audio Codec (none) o Multi-topology routing in OSPFv3 (MT-OSPFv3) (none) o Session Key Transport in RADIUS (none) o RADIUS Attributes for Key Delivery (avt) o RTP Payload Format for Extended AMR Wideband (AMR-WB+) Audio Codec (msec) o Group Policy Token Version 1 with Application to GSAKMP (multi6) o Things MULTI6 Developers should think about (mobike) o Design of the MOBIKE protocol (mip6) o Authentication Protocol for Mobile IPv6 (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 (multi6) o Architectural Approaches to Multi-Homing for IPv6 (rpsec) o Generic Security Requirements for Routing Protocols (avt) o RTP Payload Format for H.263 using RFC2190 to Historic status (sipping) o Subscriptions to Request-Contained Resource Lists in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (xcon) o The Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) (none) o Generic Security Requirements for Routing Protocols - Opened Questions (none) o Inter domain MPLS Traffic Engineering - RSVP-TE extensions (none) o MIME Type Registrations for 3GPP2 Multimedia files (none) o Simple New Mail Notification (none) + Security Review of Two MASS Proposals (none) + Extended MGCP Line Packages (crisp) o A Domain Availability Check (dchk) Registry Type for the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) (none) o Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures (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 Transporting Atom Notifications over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (none) o The wais URI Scheme (none) + Implementer-friendly Specification of Message and MIME-Part Header Fields and Field Components (none) o Addition of SEED Ciphersuites to Transport Layer Security (TLS) (rtgwg) o Basic Specification for IP Fast-Reroute: Loop-free Alternates (dhc) o The DHCPv6 Client FQDN Option (mmusic) o The SDP (Session Description Protocol) Label Attribute (mip4) o Mobile IPv4 Traversal Across IPsec-based VPN Gateways (crisp) o A Lightweight UDP Transport for the the Internet Registry Information Service (none) + Message Header From Field Made Optional (tcpm) o A Roadmap for TCP Specification Documents (none) o IPv6 Network Architecture Protection (iab) o Architectural Implications of Link Indications (none) o Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS) (none) o Guidelines and Registration Procedures for new URI Schemes (none) o Requirements for Document Notification Service (none) o Configuring Source Address Selection Policy by Neighbor Discovery Protocol for IPv6 (hip) o Host Identity Protocol Architecture (none) o Centralized Conference Data Model (avt) o Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Format and File Storage Format for the Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) and Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) Audio Codecs (none) o Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) (mpls) o Extensions to RSVP-TE for Point to Multipoint TE LSPs (none) o IPv6 Multihoming with Alternate Path Encoding (none) o Last-hop Threats to Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) (kitten) o The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (iab) o What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names (none) o Proposed changes to the format of the IANA IPv6 Registry (ospf) o OSPF for IPv6 (none) + PANA Mobility Optimizations (none) + Support of unidirectional links in OSPFv2 (none) o Spam reducing protocol (iab) o Process for the IAB selection of an IAOC member (none) o Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 802.15.4 Networks (none) + RSA key exchange for the SSH Transport Layer Protocol (isis) + IPv6 Traffic Engineering in IS-IS (pim) + PIM IETF Proposed Standard Requirements Analysis (none) + Requirements for Providing Information on IETF Internet-Drafts (none) + State of Peer-to-Peer(P2P) communication across Network Address Translators(NATs) (none) + OSI Directory IPv6 NSAPA Format (none) + Extension to IODEF-Document Class for Phishing Reports (none) o Basic Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar Basic) (none) + Sender Policy Framework: Authorizing Use of Domains in E-MAIL (none) + Use of IKEv2 in The Fibre Channel Security Association Management Protocol (none) + An Authentication Scheme using AAAA in Hierarchical MIPv6 (sip) + Suppression of REFER Implicit Subscription (none) + A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the CLEI Code (none) + The OpenPGP mail and news header (none) + Care-of Address Test for MIPv6 using a State Cookie (none) + An IPv6 Prefix for Cryptographically Generated IDs (dccp) + TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) for Voice: VoIP Variant and Faster Restart (mip6) + Using IPsec between Mobile and Correspondent IPv6 Nodes (none) + TLS Sign (none) + Structure of an International Emergency Alert System (none) + Encapsulation Extension for Mobile IPv4 (multi6) + Multi6 Application Referral Issues (behave) + NAT Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP (none) + Mobile IPv4 Message String Extension (multi6) + Multihoming L3 Shim Approach (mmusic) + Session Description Protocol (SDP) Format for Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) Streams (none) + Protocols for Application and Desktop Sharing (avt) + Definition of Events For Modem, FAX, and Text Telephony Signals (isis) + Definition of an IS-IS Link Attribute sub-TLV (none) + Routing hyperactivity problem statement (none) o Time Zone Registry (none) + Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT) (msec) + Bootstrapping TESLA (none) o QoSjava: An Open and Scalable Architecture Decoupling QoS Requirements from QoS Techniques (opsec) + Framework for Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure (none) + Requirements for Mid Call Communication in the SIP (none) + Media Type Extension Negotiation in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Accept Header Field (none) + DNS update in IPv6 stateless configuration (none) + Certificate Exchange Messaging for EDIINT (dhc) + Service-Oriented Address Assignment using DHCPv6 (none) + A P2P Approach to SIP Registration (none) + The Camellia Cipher Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec (none) + Evaluation of existing Routing Protocols against ASON routing requirements (none) + IRC Client Capabilities Extension (opsec) + Security Best Practices Efforts and Documents (none) + Distributed Prefix-Delegation Scheme for NEMO (pkix) + Certificate Extensions and Attributes Supporting Authentication in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) (krb-wg) + The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (Version 5) (none) + The EAP-SKL protocol (isis) + IS-IS extensions for advertising router information (pkix) + Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Authority Information Access CRL Extension (dnsext) + DNSSEC Hash Authenticated Denial of Existence (none) + IPFIX Aggregation (dnsext) + Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS) (none) + A Taxonomy and Analysis of Enhancements to Mobile IPv6 Route Optimization (pppext) + Accommodating an MTU of 1500 in PPPoE (none) + Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Ownership Packages (iab) + IAB Thoughts on the Role of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) (none) + Attaching Meaning to Solicitation Class Keywords (none) + Requirements for a media server control protocol (none) + An additional mode of key distribution in MIKEY (none) + Writing Internet-Drafts and Requests For Comments using troff and nroff (none) + Next Generation Effort for IETF Multicast/Unicast Delivery (none) + SIP Session Border Control Requirements (none) + Extensions for Differentiated Services-aware Traffic Engineered LSPs (none) + NAT Behavioral Requirements for TCP (none) + Labels in Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best (none) + IMAP4 extension to CONDSTORE for reporting messages expunged since last synchronization (none) + SIP, P2P, and Internet Communications (none) + Source Address Selection Policy Distribution for Multihoming (none) + Procedure to handle (G)MPLS-TE control plane saturation 6) 20 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 ------- -- -------- ---------- ----------------------------------------- RFC3939 S (none) Jan 05 Calling Line Identification for Voice Mail Messages RFC3959 S (sipping) Jan 05 The Early Session Disposition Type for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) RFC3960 I (sipping) Jan 05 Early Media and Ringing Tone Generation in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) RFC3968 B (sip) Jan 05 The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Header Field Parameter Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) RFC3969 B (sip) Jan 05 The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Universal Resource Identifier (URI) Parameter Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) RFC3967 B (none) Jan 05 Clarifying when Standards Track Documents may Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level RFC3947 S (ipsec) Jan 05 Negotiation of NAT-Traversal in the IKE RFC3948 S (ipsec) Jan 05 UDP Encapsulation of IPsec Packets RFC3970 S (tewg) Jan 05 A Traffic Engineering MIB RFC3983 S (crisp) Jan 05 IRIS - Using the Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) over the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) RFC3958 S (none) Jan 05 Domain-based Application Service Location Using SRV RRs and the Dynamic Delegation Discovery Service (DDDS) RFC3981 S (crisp) Jan 05 IRIS - The Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS) Core Protocol RFC3982 S (crisp) Jan 05 IRIS - A Domain Registry (dreg) Type for the Internet Registry Information Service RFC3953 S (enum) Jan 05 Enumservice Registration for Presence Services RFC3973 E (pim) Jan 05 Protocol Independent Multicast - Dense Mode (PIM-DM): Protocol Specification (Revised) RFC3963 S (nemo) Jan 05 Network Mobility (NEMO) Basic Support Protocol RFC3974 I (none) Jan 05 SMTP Operational Experience in Mixed IPv4/v6 Environments RFC3987 S (none) Jan 05 Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) RFC3986 S (none) Jan 05 Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax RFC3976 I (none) Jan 05 Interworking SIP and Intelligent Network (IN) Applications 13 Standards Track; 3 BCP; 1 Experimental; 3 Informational