IETF Progress Report 1-Aug-05 to 31-Aug-05 1) 24 IESG Protocol Actions this period Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification (Draft Standard) Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) (Proposed Standard) Domain Name System Uniform Resource Identifiers (Proposed Standard) Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange for the SSH Transport Layer Protocol (Proposed Standard) Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (Proposed Standard) Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: Certificate Store Access via HTTP (Proposed Standard) Domain Name System (DNS) Security Extensions Mapping for the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) (Proposed Standard) Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP with MPLS (Proposed Standard) The TLS Protocol Version 1.1 (Proposed Standard) TCP/IP Field Behavior (Informational) A Method for Generating Link Scoped IPv6 Multicast Addresses (Proposed Standard) A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Conference State (Proposed Standard) MIME Type Registration for MPEG-4 (Proposed Standard) A Mechanism for Content Indirection in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Messages (Proposed Standard) Profile for DCCP Congestion Control ID 2:TCP-like Congestion Control (Proposed Standard) Profile for DCCP Congestion Control ID 3:TFRC Congestion Control (Proposed Standard) A Framework for Conferencing with the Session Initiation Protocol (Informational) Identifiers and Test Vectors for HMAC-SHA-224, HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-384, and HMAC-SHA-512 (Proposed Standard) IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches (Informational) The Atom Syndication Format (Proposed Standard) MIME Type Registrations for 3GPP2 Multimedia files (Proposed Standard) A Proposed Media Delivery Index (Informational) Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures (BCP) Deprecation of (None) 2) 22 IESG Last Calls issued to the IETF this period Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised) (Proposed Standard) Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) (Proposed Standard) GSSAPI Authentication and Key Exchange for the Secure Shell Protocol (Proposed Standard) Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (Proposed Standard) Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label-Controlled ATM and Frame-Relay Management Interface Definition (Proposed Standard) Encapsulation Methods for Transport of ATM Over MPLS Networks (Proposed Standard) SSH Transport Layer Encryption Modes (Proposed Standard) Secure Shell (SSH) Session Channel Break Extension (Proposed Standard) Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): The Binary Encoding Option (Proposed Standard) Framing RTP and RTCP Packets over Connection-Oriented Transport (Proposed Standard) RTP Payload for Text Conversation interleaved in an audio stream (Historic) BGP Route Reflection - An Alternative to Full Mesh IBGP (Draft Standard) The Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) (Proposed Standard) Sieve Extension: Variables (Proposed Standard) PIM Sparse-Mode IETF Proposed Standard Requirements Analysis (Informational) Session Description Protocol (SDP) Format for Binary Floor Control Protocol (BFCP) Streams (Proposed Standard) Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS) (Proposed Standard) Internet Code Point Assignments (Proposed Standard) Tags for Identifying Languages (BCP) The AES-XCBC-PRF-128 Algorithm for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE) (Proposed Standard) Initial Language Subtag Registry (Informational) BCP101 Update for IPR Trust (BCP) 3) 205 new or revised Internet-Drafts this period (o - Revised Internet-Draft; + - New Internet-Draft) WG I-D Title ------- ------------------------------------------ (pkix) o Simple Certificate Validation Protocol (SCVP) (mpls) o ICMP Extensions for MultiProtocol Label Switching (none) o Cisco Systems' Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol(SCEP) (none) o A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts (dnsop) o Encouraging the use of DNS IN-ADDR Mapping (dnsext) o Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) (none) o Domain Name System Uniform Resource Identifiers (secsh) o GSSAPI Authentication and Key Exchange for the Secure Shell Protocol (secsh) o SSH Public Key File Format (secsh) o Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange for the SSH Transport Layer Protocol (ldapbis) o LDAP: Authentication Methods and Connection Level Security Mechanisms (grow) o BGP Communities for Data Collection (none) o The ARK Persistent Identifier Scheme (aaa) o The Diameter API (none) o Internal BGP as PE-CE protocol (bridge) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (l3vpn) o BGP-MPLS IP VPN extension for IPv6 VPN (l3vpn) o Architecture for the Use of PE-PE IPsec Tunnels in BGP/MPLS IP VPNs (l3vpn) o Use of PE-PE GRE or IP in BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (l3vpn) o Virtual Router Management Information Base Using SMIv2 (ediint) o Compressed Data for EDIINT (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: Certificate Store Access via HTTP (none) o Registration of GSTN SMS Service Qualifier (idr) o Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4 (none) o URI Scheme for GSM Short Message Service (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 The RFC 3095 Implementer's Guide (ipfix) o Architecture for IP Flow Information Export (bridge) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering and Virtual LAN Extensions (none) o Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP (none) o Common IMAP keywords (mpls) o Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Traffic Engineering Management Information Base for Fast Reroute (dccp) o Problem Statement for DCCP (none) + IP Layer 2 Transport over L2TPv3 (ipcdn) o Multimedia Terminal Adapter (MTA) Management Information Base for PacketCable and IPCablecom compliant devices (inch) o The Incident Object Description Exchange Format Data Model and XML Implementation (gsmp) o GSMPv3 Base Specification (none) o Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures (nntpext) o Using TLS with NNTP (none) + IPFIX Protocol Specifications for Billing (none) o Lightweight Mobility Detection and Response (LMDR) Algorithm for TCP (secsh) o SSH Transport Layer Encryption Modes (secsh) o Secure Shell (SSH) Session Channel Break Extension (none) o SIEVE Email Filtering: Include Extension (none) o BaseStream - A Simple Typed Stream Format (sasl) o The CRAM-MD5 SASL Mechanism (ccamp) o Exclude Routes - Extension to RSVP-TE (ipfix) o Information Model for IP Flow Information Export (ipfix) o IPFIX Protocol Specification (none) o Dissemination of flow specification rules (none) o Media Objects Markup Language (MOML) (none) o Media Sessions Markup Language (MSML) (magma) o Multicast Group Membership Discovery MIB (none) o DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation for NEMO (secsh) o Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme for Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) and Secure Shell (SSH) (dhc) o Detecting Network Attachment (DNA) in IPv4 (none) o The IMAP COMPRESS=DEFLATE extension (none) o Registration and Administration Guideline for Chinese Domain Names (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base Version 2 (pim) o Anycast-RP using PIM (secsh) o Secure Shell Public-Key Subsystem (l2vpn) o Provisioning, Autodiscovery, and Signaling in L2VPNs (rddp) o Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Direct Data Placement (DDP) Adaptation (speechsc) o Media Resource Control Protocol Version 2 (MRCPv2) (none) o The "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces (avt) o RTP Payload Format for MIDI (avt) o An Implementation Guide for RTP MIDI (l2vpn) o IP-Only LAN Service (IPLS) (mip4) o Mobile IPv4 Dynamic Home Agent Assignment (ipsp) o IPsec Security Policy IPsec Action MIB (ipsp) o IPsec Security Policy IKE Action MIB (none) o The EAP-PSK Protocol: a Pre-Shared Key EAP Method (none) o Server Index Query (SIQ) Protocol (none) o Transporting Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (none) o Basic Messaging and Presence Interoperability between the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE) (none) o Push Extensions to the IMAP Protocol (P-IMAP) (none) o Problem Statement for MIPv6 Interactions with GPRS/UMTS Packet Filtering (none) o Iowa Internet Annoyance Logging Protocol (IIALP) pronounced E'-alp (inch) o Incident Handling: Real-Time Inter-Network Defense (nntpext) o NNTP Extension for Authentication (none) o Identity selection hints for Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) (pki4ipsec) o The Internet IP Security PKI Profile of IKEv1/ISAKMP, IKEv2, and PKIX (bfd) o Bidirectional Forwarding Detection Management Information Base (mip6) o Authentication Protocol for Mobile IPv6 (atompub) o The Atom Syndication Format (none) o Multiple Attachments for EDI-INT (none) o Scope Modifiers in Intellectual Property Declarations (none) o RADIUS NAS-Management Authorization (none) o Server/Application State Protocol v1 (lemonade) o SMTP Submission Service Extension for Future Delivery (none) o A Proposed Media Delivery Index (none) o Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures (none) o IPvLX - IP with virtual Link eXtension (none) o Transporting Atom Notifications over the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) (dnsext) o Automated Updates of DNSSEC Trust Anchors (none) o Calendar Access Protocol (CAP) (none) o Why Authentication Data suboption is needed for MIP6 (simple) o A Data Model for Presence (none) o Simple Lightweight RFID Reader Protocol (l2vpn) o ARP Mediation for IP Interworking of Layer 2 VPN (ospf) o OSPFv3 Graceful Restart (mpls) o LDP Specification (iab) o Architectural Implications of Link Indications (iab) o The IEEE 802/IETF Relationship (hip) o Host Identity Protocol Architecture (lemonade) o Message Submission BURL Extension (sipping) o Framework of requirements for real-time text conversation using SIP (none) + Extended Optional Parameters for the BGP OPEN Message (none) o QoS NSLP State Machine (sieve) o Sieve Extension: Variables (none) + Operational Reliability for EDIINT AS2 (geopriv) o Location Types Registry (mboned) o Overview of the Internet Multicast Addressing Architecture (ospf) o OSPF for IPv6 (kitten) o A PRF API extension for the GSS-API (radext) o RADIUS Extension for Digest Authentication (none) o Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) key exchange for the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol (isis) o IPv6 Traffic Engineering in IS-IS (avt) o Definition of Events For Modem, FAX, and Text Telephony Signals (none) o Time Zone Registry (none) o Certificate Exchange Messaging for EDIINT (none) o The EAP-SKL protocol (none) + XHTML+Voice - application/xv+xml (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Authority Information Access CRL Extension (dnsext) o Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS) (none) o Extensions for Differentiated Services-aware Traffic Engineered LSPs (iab) o Process for the IAB and IESG selection of IAOC members (sieve) o Sieve Email Filtering: Editheader Extension (tsvwg) o Implementing an Emergency Telecommunications Service for Real Time Services in the Internet Protocol Suite (none) o A Name-Value Language (ANVL) (none) o Considerations on the IPv6 Host density Metric (radext) + RADIUS Auth Client MIB (IPv6) (dhc) o DHCPv6 Relay agent RADIUS Attribute Option (none) o A Processing Model for Presence (ltru) o Tags for Identifying Languages (none) o The AES-XCBC-PRF-128 Algorithm for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE) (dhc) o DHCP Options for Broadcast and Multicast Control Servers (none) o Cisco's Mobile IPv4 Host Configuration Extensions (none) o Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field (none) o Secure IPv6 Address Proxying using Multi-Key Cryptographically Generated Addresses (MCGAs) (none) o Report on the IANA IPv4 Address Registry (none) o Requesting Answering and Alerting Modes for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) (ltru) o Initial Language Subtag Registry (none) o Feed History: Enabling Stateful Syndication (v6ops) o Using IPsec to Secure IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels (dnsext) o Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations (none) o Extensions to OSPFv2 for Advertising Optional Route/Link Attributes (none) o CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures (CAdES) (none) o Feed Index: Enabling Ordered Entries in Atom (none) + A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Marlin Development Community L.L.C. (none) + Problem Statement in IPv6 over WiBro (none) o iCalendar in XML Format (xCal-Basic) (none) + IPv4 Mobile Network Prefix Option for NEMO Basic Support Protocol (none) + Media Server Control Protocol (MSCP) (none) + Update to OSPF Graceful Restart procedure (none) + UniDirectional Link Detection (UDLD) Protocol (none) + Simple IPFIX Files for Persistent Storage (nemo) + DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation for NEMO (none) + Mounting WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) servers (none) + BGP Monitoring Protocol (nsis) + Y.1541-QOSM -- Y.1541 QoS Model for Networks Using Y.1541 QoS Classes (avt) + Protocol Extensions for Header Compression over MPLS (rohc) o Improvements for the ROHC Profile Set Update (none) + Proactive Care-of Address Test for Route Optimization in FMIPv6 (none) o Feed License Link Relation (none) o Feed Thread: Enabling Threaded Entries in Atom (none) + Agent-Based Return Routability Test for Mobile IPv4 Route Optimization (none) + Some experiences from implementing the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (none) + IODEF/RID over SOAP (iab) + Report of the 2004 IAB Messaging Workshop (none) + The End to End Problem in a fully generalized IPv4, IPv6, and IPv4+IPv6 network (none) + A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) (avt) + A general mechanism for RTP Header Extensions (avt) + Associating SMPTE time-codes with RTP streams (none) o BCP101 Update for IPR Trust (none) o Atom Entry Expiration: Specifying Expiration Timestamps for Atom Entry metadata (none) + Link Adaptation for IPv6-in-IPv4 Tunnels (none) + Revised Civic Location Format for PIDF-LO (calsify) + iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP) (none) + Day and Time based IP Multicast (none) o Lawful Intercept procedure via the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Push to talk over Cellular (PoC) (none) + Distributed Security Threat Model (none) + EDI-INT Features Header (nemo) + Mobile Network Prefix Delegation (none) + Identifying Implementations in NFSv4 (none) + Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Extensions for Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) Control (none) + Limited Core Fix (LCF) Multicast (none) + The IETF Process: a Roadmap (none) + Simple Extension to the IRC Protocol for Pre-Connection Usermode Setting (none) + Using Spurious Retransmissions to Adapt the Retransmission Timeout (none) o DNS Blacklists Considered Harmful (avt) + RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1 (none) + Network Side Fast Handover in Mobile IPv6 (none) + Metrics for the Evaluation of Congestion Control Mechanisms (avt) + RTP Payload Format for Video Codec 1 (VC-1) (none) + Dynamic Feedback Protocol (none) + HIP DHT Interface (none) + Distributed Security Framework (l1vpn) + Framework and Requirements for Layer 1 Virtual Private Networks (none) + Simple Internet REsource Notification System (SIRENS) framework and protocol (none) + Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Extensions for Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) Control (none) + Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Stream Reset (none) + Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for Mutual Authentication and Key Establishment (EAP-MAKE) (radext) + RADIUS Auth Server MIB (IPv6) 4) 23 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 ------- -- -------- ---------- ----------------------------------------- RFC4139 I (ccamp) Aug 05 Requirements for Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Signaling Usage and Extensions for Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) RFC4136 I (ospf) Aug 05 OSPF Refresh and Flooding Reduction in Stable Topologies RFC4108 S (none) Aug 05 Using CMS to Protect Firmware Packages RFC4138 E (tcpm) Aug 05 Forward RTO-Recovery (F-RTO): An Algorithm for Detecting Spurious Retransmission Timeouts with TCP and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) RFC4148 B (ippm) Aug 05 IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) metrics registry RFC4149 S (rmonmib) Aug 05 Definition of Managed Objects for Synthetic Sources for Performance Monitoring Algorithms. RFC4150 S (rmonmib) Aug 05 Transport Performance Metrics MIB RFC4004 S (aaa) Aug 05 Diameter Mobile IPv4 Application RFC4005 S (aaa) Aug 05 Diameter Network Access Server Application RFC4135 I (dna) Aug 05 Goals of Detecting Network Attachment in IPv6 RFC4140 E (mipshop) Aug 05 Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 mobility management (HMIPv6) RFC4147 I (none) Aug 05 Proposed changes to the format of the IANA IPv6 Registry RFC4146 I (none) Aug 05 Simple New Mail Notification RFC4006 S (aaa) Aug 05 Diameter Credit-Control Application RFC4137 I (eap) Aug 05 State Machines for Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Peer and Authenticator RFC4072 S (aaa) Aug 05 Diameter Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Application RFC4133 S (entmib) Aug 05 Entity MIB (Version 3) RFC4152 I (none) Aug 05 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Common Language Equipment Identifier (CLEI) Code RFC4156 H (none) Aug 05 The wais URI Scheme RFC4157 H (none) Aug 05 The prospero URI Scheme RFC4159 B (none) Aug 05 Deprecation of RFC4163 I (rohc) Aug 05 RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Requirements on TCP/IP Header Compression RFC4093 I (mip4) Aug 05 Problem Statement: Mobile IPv4 Traversal of Virtual Private Network (VPN) Gateways 8 Standards Track; 2 BCP; 2 Experimental; 9 Informational