IETF Progress Report 1-Mar-05 to 31-Mar-05 1) 34 IESG Protocol Actions this period Generic Message Exchange Authentication For SSH (Proposed Standard) Tunneling Multiplexed Compressed RTP ('TCRTP') (BCP) Guidelines for Authors of Extensions to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (Informational) Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) (Proposed Standard) Connection-Oriented Media Transport in the Session Description Protocol (SDP) (Proposed Standard) Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF Packets and Congestion Avoidance (BCP) Extended RTP Profile for RTCP-based Feedback(RTP/AVPF) (Proposed Standard) The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) as a Transport for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (Proposed Standard) Extended RTP Profile for RTCP-based Feedback - Results of the Timing Rule Simulations (Informational) Fibre Channel Management MIB (Proposed Standard) LDAP Schema for UDDIv3 (Informational) Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Signaling Extensions for G.709 Optical Transport Networks Control (Proposed Standard) RTP Payload Format for Uncompressed Video (Proposed Standard) National and Local Characters for DNS Top Level Domain (TLD) Names (Informational) RSVP Security Properties (Informational) The Anonymous SASL Mechanism (Proposed Standard) Generalize Multiprotocol Label Switching(GMPLS) User-Network Interface (UNI): Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Support for the Overlay Model (Proposed Standard) Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of MIB Documents (BCP) A Suggested Scheme for DNS Resolution of Networks and Gateways (Informational) Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers (Proposed Standard) Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Digest Authentication Using Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) Version-2 (Informational) Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses (Proposed Standard) The S Hexdump Format (Proposed Standard) Requirements for Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Routing for Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) (Informational) Functional Description of Event Notification Filtering (Proposed Standard) An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Based Format for Event Notification Filtering (Proposed Standard) Procedures for Renumbering an IPv6 Network without a Flag Day (Informational) Removing a Restriction on the use of MPLS Explicit NULL (Proposed Standard) An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) Usage for Manipulating Presence Document Contents (Proposed Standard) Architectural Approaches to Multi-Homing for IPv6 (Informational) The prospero URI Scheme (Historic) The wais URI Scheme (Historic) Using Universal Content Identifier as Uniform Resource Names (Informational) A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the CLEI Code (Informational) 2) 19 IESG Last Calls issued to the IETF this period The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (DSR) (Experimental) Scripting Media Types (Informational) Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message (Proposed Standard) RTP Retransmission Payload Format (Proposed Standard) HTTP Header Field Registrations (Informational) An INVITE Inititiated Dialog Event Package for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (Proposed Standard) Interworking between SIP and QSIG (BCP) An Extension to the Session Initiation Protocol for Request History Information (Proposed Standard) A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Key Press Stimulus (KPML) (Proposed Standard) The SEED Cipher Algorithm and Its Use With IPSec (Proposed Standard) Problems identified associated with the Session Initiation Protocol's non-INVITE Transaction (Informational) Actions addressing identified issues with the Session Initiation Protocol's non-INVITE Transaction (Proposed Standard) Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) (Proposed Standard) Reclassification of RFC 1863 to Historic (Informational) The Codecs Parameter for "Bucket" Media Types (Proposed Standard) Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures (BCP) The Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism (Proposed Standard) The Camellia Cipher Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec (Proposed Standard) Using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) in Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) (Proposed Standard) 3) 2 New Working Group(s) formed this period IPv6 over Low power WPAN (6lowpan) Language Tag Registry Update (ltru) 4) 4 Working Group(s) concluded this period IP Security Policy (ipsp) Configuration Management with SNMP (snmpconf) IPSEC KEYing information resource record (ipseckey) Improved Cross-Area Review (icar) 5) 222 new or revised Internet-Drafts this period (o - Revised Internet-Draft; + - New Internet-Draft) WG I-D Title ------- ------------------------------------------ (secsh) o SSH Transport Layer Protocol (secsh) o SSH Authentication Protocol (secsh) o SSH Connection Protocol (ipsec) o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) (secsh) o SSH Protocol Architecture (tls) o ECC Cipher Suites For TLS (secsh) o Generic Message Exchange Authentication For SSH (none) o Transport of Layer 2 Frames Over MPLS (pim) o Bi-directional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-PIM) (dccp) o Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) (dnsext) o Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) (none) o A Configuration Schema for LDAP Based Directory User Agents (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) (secsh) o SSH File Transfer Protocol (secsh) o SSH Public Key File Format (isis) o M-ISIS: Multi Topology (MT)Routing in IS-IS (tls) o Using SRP for TLS Authentication (msec) o GSAKMP (dnsext) o DSA Keying and Signature Information in the DNS (dnsext) o Storage of Diffie-Hellman Keying Information in the DNS (l3vpn) o BGP-MPLS VPN extension for IPv6 VPN (l3vpn) o OSPF as the Provider/Customer Edge Protocol for BGP/MPLS IP VPNs (l2tpext) o PPP over L2TP Tunnel Switching (none) o Improvement of Return Routability Protocol (avt) o RTP Payload Format for 3GPP Timed Text (mmusic) o Key Management Extensions for Session Description Protocol (SDP) and Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) (syslog) o Syslog Management Information Base (none) o Registration of GSTN SMS Service Qualifier (none) o URI scheme for GSM Short Message Service (none) o Media Gateway Control Protocol Fax Package (none) o Domain Name System (DNS) Security Extensions Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) (rohc) o ROHC Implementer's Guide (ipfix) o Architecture Model for IP Flow Information Export (ipsec) o IP Authentication Header (sigtran) o M3UA Implementor’s Guide (avt) o RTP Retransmission Payload Format (ipoib) o DHCP over InfiniBand (none) o GVPN Services: Generalized VPN Services using BGP and GMPLS Toolkit (dnsop) o Identifying an Authoritative Name Server (secsh) o SSH Protocol Assigned Numbers (sipping) o A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Conference State (ccamp) o Recovery (Protection and Restoration) Terminology for Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) (pwe3) o Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance using LDP (sipping) o Session Initiation Protocol Torture Test Messages (msec) o HMAC-authenticated Diffie-Hellman for MIKEY (dccp) o Profile for DCCP Congestion Control ID 2:TCP-like Congestion Control (none) o Secure Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (SAODV) Routing (dccp) o Profile for DCCP Congestion Control ID 3:TFRC Congestion Control (rohc) o Interoperability of RFC 3095 (none) o Reasons to Deprecate NAT-PT (rohc) o Formal Notation for Robust Header Compression (ROHC-FN) (rmonmib) o Real-time Application Quality of Service Monitoring (RAQMON) MIB (iesg) o Considerations on the Extensibility of IETF protocols (ccamp) o Analysis of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)-based Recovery Mechanisms (including Protection and Restoration) (ccamp) o Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Recovery Functional Specification (pwe3) o Requirements for Edge-to-Edge Emulation of TDM Circuits over Packet Switching Networks (PSN) (sasl) o The Plain SASL Mechanism (pwe3) o Encapsulation Methods for Transport of PPP/HDLC Over IP and MPLS Networks (v6ops) o Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers (none) o Specifying time intervals in URI queries and fragments of time-based Web resources (none) o The Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML), Version 2.0 (none) + Label Distribution Protocol Extensions for Point-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths (secsh) o SSH Transport Layer Encryption Modes (none) o Lumas-A Language for Universal Message Abstraction and Specification (ospf) o Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF version 3 (nfsv4) o NFSv4.1: Directory Delegations and Notifications (none) o ISP IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in Broadband Access Networks (none) o BaseStream - A Simple Typed Stream Format (none) o Verizon Wireless Dynamic Mobile IP Key Update for cdma2000(R) Networks (nntpext) o NNTP Extension for Streaming Feeds (none) o The Annodex exchange format for time-continuous bitstreams, Version 3.0 (none) + IS-IS BFD Enabled TLV (none) + POST Once Exactly (POE) (rddp) o Applicability of Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol (RDMA)and Direct Data Placement (DDP) (none) o Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): The Binary Encoding Option (ipfix) o IPFIX Protocol Specifications (sip) o Communications Resource Priority for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (l3vpn) o Framework for L3VPN Operations and Management (dhc) o Detection of Network Attachment (DNA) in IPv4 (none) + Mobile SCTP (mSCTP) for Internet Mobility (none) + Requirements for private messaging in centralized conference environements (secsh) o Secure Shell Public-Key Subsystem (secsh) + X.509 authentication in SSH2 (rddp) o Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Direct Data Placement (DDP) Adaptation (netconf) o Using the NETCONF Protocol over Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) (rddp) o Marker PDU Aligned Framing for TCP Specification (ipv6) o IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture (aaa) o Diameter Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Application (none) o The S Hexdump Format (sipping) o Requirements for End-to-middle Security for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (mip6) o Mobile IPv6 Management Information Base (lemonade) o Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) CATENATE Extension (sasl) o SASL GSSAPI mechanisms (newtrk) o Internet Standards Documentation (ISDs) (grow) o BGP MED Considerations (none) o The SEED Cipher Algorithm and Its Use With IPSec (xcon) o Conferencing Scenarios (hubmib) o Managed Objects of EPON (none) o Email Submission Between Independent Networks (none) + A Uniform Resource Name Namespace For The EPCglobal Electronic Product Code (EPC) (midcom) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Middlebox Communication (hubmib) o Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) OAM MIB (simple) o Functional Description of Event Notification Filtering (simple) o An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Based Format for Event Notification Filtering (none) o Server Index Query (SIQ) Protocol (v6ops) o Procedures for Renumbering an IPv6 Network without a Flag Day (none) o Goals for Zero-Configuration Tunneling in 3GPP (none) o Transmission of IP Datagrams over Token-Rail Ethernet (none) + Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF (none) o Multi-homing for small scale fixed network Using Mobile IP and NEMO (adslmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for G.shdsl.bis Lines (none) o GRSVP-TE signaling extension for LSP ownership handover from Management Plane to Control Plane and vice versa. (nemo) o NEMO Home Network models (nntpext) o NNTP Extension for Authentication (ospf) o Multi-Topology (MT) Routing in OSPF (none) o Internet Mail Architecture (none) o Domain-based Email Authentication Using Public-Keys Advertised in the DNS (DomainKeys) (none) o Identity selection hints for Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) (none) o Certificate-based Binding Update Protocol (CBU) (usefor) o Usenet Best Practice (tls) o Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS) (msec) o Group Policy Token Version 1 with Application to GSAKMP (v6ops) o Goals for Registered Assisted Tunneling (atompub) o The Atom Syndication Format (atompub) o The Atom Publishing Protocol (none) + LDP Implementation Survey Results (none) + ROHC (Robust Header Compression) in NEMO network (lemonade) o Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - URLAUTH Extension (none) o IANA Considerations for OSPF (mip6) o Problem Statement for bootstrapping Mobile IPv6 (none) o Multicast in BGP/MPLS IP VPNs Management Information Base (dnsext) o HMAC SHA TSIG Algorithm Identifiers (bfd) o Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (bfd) o BFD for Multihop Paths (bfd) o BFD for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop) (none) o The PROTO Process: Working Group Chair Document Shepherding (none) o EAP Password Authenticated Exchange (none) + Requirements for Integrating Header Compression over IPsec Security Associations (none) o Goals for Zero-Configuration Tunneling (none) o Internet Security Glossary, Version 2 (none) o Common Format and MIME Type for CSV Files (none) o Interoperability between all NFS versions and local filesystem (none) o Implementer-friendly Specification of Message and MIME-Part Header Fields and Field Components (none) o Using Universal Content Identifier as Uniform Resource Names (ips) o Datamover Architecture for iSCSI (DA) (none) o Message Header for Indicating Sender Authentication Status (ips) o iSCSI Extensions for RDMA Specification (grow) o BGP Wedgies (none) o Message Header From Field Made Optional (none) o A Lexicography for the Interpretation of Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Terminology within The Context of the ITU-T's Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) Architecture (ccamp) o Extensions to GMPLS RSVP Graceful Restart (iab) o Design Choices When Expanding DNS (smime) o X.509 Certificate Extension for S/MIME Capabilities (lemonade) o Message Submission BURL Extension (none) o Extensible Mail Protocol (ExMP) (pwe3) o PWE3 Control Word for use over an MPLS PSN (none) o Zero-Configuration Tunneling Requirements (imss) o Fibre Channel Name Server MIB (mpls) o A Framework for MPLS Operations and Management (OAM) (none) o Nonce response matching for router reachability in IPv6 (ospf) o OSPF for IPv6 (ipv6) o Considerations on M and O Flags of IPv6 Router Advertisement (none) o Media subtype registration for media type text/troff (radext) o Chargeable User Identity (capwap) o Objectives for Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) (pce) + Path Computation Element (PCE) Architecture (none) o RSA key exchange for the SSH Transport Layer Protocol (none) o Mobile IPv4 Message String Extension (none) o Certificate Exchange Messaging for EDIINT (none) o The Camellia Cipher Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec (none) o Evaluation of existing Routing Protocols against ASON routing requirements (none) o IRC Client Capabilities Extension (none) o NAT Behavioral Requirements for TCP (none) o Policy-Mandated Labels Such as "Adv:" in Email Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best (none) o SIP, P2P, and Internet Communications (none) o IKEv2 Clarifications and Implementation Guidelines (imss) o Transmission of IPv6, IPv4 and ARP Packets over Fibre Channel (none) o MIB for Fibre-Channel's Fabric Shortest Path First Protocol (none) o Fibre-Channel Routing Information MIB (none) o Multicast Emulation over VPLS (none) o Circuit Cross-Connect (none) o Sieve Extension: Relational Tests (none) o A Scheme of Mobile Firewall in Mobile IPv6 (none) + Collected extensions to IMAP4 ABNF (none) + The OCB Authenticated-Encryption Algorithm (none) + IP Fast Reroute Using Notvia Addresses (v6ops) + IPv6 Network Architecture Protection (none) + P3P Policy Attributes for LDAP (none) o MASS impacts upon reputation (none) + Using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) in Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) (none) + Clarifications and Implementation Notes for DNSSECbis (none) + Multihoming of (1,1,*) configured networks in Network Mobility Support (none) + MIME media types for SCCP and TCAP Objects (none) + Protocol for Protecting Movement of Mobile Nodes in Mobile IPv6 (none) + Common presigned OCSP Response database format (sieve) + Sieve Email Filtering: Vacation Extension (none) + Scalable NAT-PT Solution (none) + The PROTO Adviser (ltru) + Tags for Identifying Languages (none) + RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Support for Reordering and Constant IP-ID (none) + Improved Arcfour Modes for the SSH Transport Layer Protocol (ccamp) o A Lexicography for the Interpretation of Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Terminology within The Context of the ITU-T's Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) Architecture (none) + IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) metrics for spatial and multicast (none) + RTP payload format for the future scalable and wideband extension of G.729 audio codec (none) + ISAN URN Definition (none) + Firewall Traversal for Mobile IPv6 (mboned) + Lightweight Multicast Address Discovery Problem Space (none) + Collision-Resistant Secure Hashing: CR-SHA1, CR-MD5, et al (none) + Native Application Programming Interfaces for the Host Identity Protocol (none) + Handling IPv6 Sources and Destinations in the MPLS and GMPLS TE MIB Modules (l3vpn) + Layer-3 VPN Import/Export Verification (none) + Anycast Addressing in IPv6 (none) + NFSv4 Global Namespace Problem Statement (none) + Attacks on Cryptographic Hashes in Internet Protocols (none) + The Atom Publishing Protocol (Basic) (none) + The AES-XCBC-PRF-128 Algorithm for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE) (none) + A Description of the Rabbit Stream Cipher Algorithm (none) + Wireless LAN Control Protocol (WiCoP) (dhc) + DHCP Options for Broadcast and Multicast Control Servers (none) + IP over Burrito Carriers (none) + Indicating Media Handling Feature in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for Seamless Session Mobility (none) + Buffer Handling Media Attribute in Session Description Protocol (SDP) for Seamless Session Mobility 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 ------- -- -------- ---------- ----------------------------------------- RFC3978 B (ipr) Mar 05 IETF Rights in Contributions RFC4001 S (none) Mar 05 Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses RFC4013 S (sasl) Mar 05 SASLprep: Stringprep profile for user names and passwords RFC4020 B (none) Mar 05 Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Codepoints RFC4011 S (snmpconf) Mar 05 Policy Based Management MIB RFC4012 S (none) Mar 05 Routing Policy Specification Language next generation (RPSLng) RFC4038 I (v6ops) Mar 05 Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition RFC4037 S (opes) Mar 05 Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) Callout Protocol (OCP) Core RFC4032 S (sip) Mar 05 Update to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Preconditions Framework RFC3931 S (l2tpext) Mar 05 Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (Version 3) RFC3957 S (mip4) Mar 05 Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) Registration Keys for Mobile IPv4 RFC3985 I (pwe3) Mar 05 PWE3 Architecture RFC4022 S (ipv6) Mar 05 Management Information Base for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) RFC3993 S (dhc) Mar 05 DHCP Subscriber ID Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option RFC4023 S (mpls) Mar 05 Encapsulating MPLS in IP or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) RFC4025 S (ipseckey) Mar 05 A method for storing IPsec keying material in DNS RFC3971 S (send) Mar 05 SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) RFC3972 S (send) Mar 05 Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA) RFC4007 S (ipv6) Mar 05 IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture RFC4016 I (pana) Mar 05 Protocol for Carrying Authentication and Network Access Threat Analysis and Security Requirements RFC4021 S (none) Mar 05 Registration of mail and MIME header fields RFC4026 I (l3vpn) Mar 05 Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Network (VPN) Terminology RFC4029 I (v6ops) Mar 05 Scenarios and Analysis for Introducing IPv6 into ISP Networks RFC3995 S (ipp) Mar 05 Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Event Notifications and Subscriptions RFC3996 S (ipp) Mar 05 Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): The 'ippget' Delivery Method for Event Notifications RFC3997 I (ipp) Mar 05 Internet Printing Protocol: Requirements for IPP Notifications RFC3998 S (ipp) Mar 05 Internet Printing Protocol(IPP): Job and Printer Administrative Operations RFC4008 S (none) Mar 05 Definitions of Managed Objects for Network Address Translators (NAT) RFC4017 I (none) Mar 05 Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Method Requirements for Wireless LANs 20 Standards Track; 2 BCP; 0 Experimental; 7 Informational