ONC Remote Procedure Call () Charter
NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 38th IETF Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. It
may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working
group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working
groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.
Chair(s)
- Steve Nahm <sxn@sun.com>
- Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Transport Area Director(s):
- Allison Mankin <mankin@isi.edu>
- Allyn Romanow <allyn@eng.sun.com>
Mailing List Information
- General Discussion:oncrpc-wg@sunroof.eng.sun.com
- To Subscribe: oncrpc-wg-request@sunroof.eng.sun.com
- Archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/oncrpc
Description of Working Group
The Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call Working Group was
originally formed to update the RFCs that describe ONC RPC to reflect
the current state of the deployed and accepted technology, and submit
them for Internet standardization. RFCs have been submitted for the
three core ONC technologies: RPC (RFC1831), RPC Binding (RFC 1833)
and XDR (RFC1832).
During this work, IESG identified the area of security as requiring
improvement prior to standardizing the core RPC technologies (RPC and
RPC Binding). Therefore, the Working Group shall develop and define
a security mechanism for ONC RPC which shall, at the minimum, allow
for strong authentication of client and server principals. The core
RPC technologies will be unblocked from the standards track once
such a mechanism is approved as a Proposed Standard, provided
that its design does not require changes to the core RPC technologies.
The basis for the work will be the RPCSEC_GSS Protocol Specification,
draft-ietf-oncrpc-rpcsec_gss.00.txt.
The document editor will be Michael Eisler.
Background:
ONC RPC is a Remote Procedure Call technology that originated in Sun
Microsystems in the early 1980s. ONC RPC was modelled on Xerox's
Courier RPC protocols. It has been widely deployed on platforms from
most major workstation vendors. It has been implemented on MS-DOS,
Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, Mac, VMS, MVS, and
practically all flavors of UNIX, among others. Sun Microsystems has
delegated change control for the ONC RPC protocols for the purposes
of making an Internet Standard to the IETF (see RFC 1790).
Goals and Milestones
- Done
- Post XDR: External Data Representation Standard (an update of RFC 1014) as an Internet-Draft.
- Done
- Post RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2 (update of RFC 1057) as an Internet-Draft.
- Done
- Submit XDR document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
- Done
- Submit RPC document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
- Feb 97
- Submit strong security mechanism for ONC RPC to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
- Mar 97
- Submit core RPC documents to IESG for consideration as Draft Standards.
- Mar 97
- Conclude working group, leaving mailing list in place for pursuit of the subseqent standards stages.
- Apr 97
- submit XDR to IESG for consideration as Internet Standards.
- Aug 97
- Submit Strong security mechanism to IESG for consideration as a Draft Standard.
Current Internet-Drafts
Request for Comments