ONC Remote Procedure Call (oncrpc) ---------------------------------- Charter Current status: active working group Chair(s): Raj Srinivasan Service Applications Area Director(s) Dave Crocker Mailing lists: General Discussion:oncrpc-wg@sunroof.eng.sun.com To Subscribe: oncrpc-wg-request@sunroof.eng.sun.com Archive: playground.sun.com: pub/oncrpc Description of Working Group: The purpose of the ONC-RPC Working Group is 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. ONC RPC is currently described in the following RFCs: RFC 1057: RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2 RFC 1014: XDR: External Data Representation Standard The focus of the ONC-RPC Working Group is to document and standardize the current ONC RPC protocols. It not the intent of this working group to develop extensions to these protocols. However, once these tasks are completed, discussions of future enhancements are expected. These discussions could lead to a follow on working group. 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 given the ownership of ONC RPC and change control over the ONC RPC protocols to the IETF. Note: ONC stands for "Open Network Computing". Goals and Milestones: Mar 94 Post XDR: External Data Representation Standard (and update of RFC 1014) as an Internet-Draft Mar 94 Post RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2 (update of RFC 1057) as an Internet-Draft. May 94 Submit XDR document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard May 94 Submit RPC document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard