Authenticated Firewall Traversal (aft) Charter
NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 31st IETF Meeting in San Jose. 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may now be out-of-date.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)
- Marcus Leech <mleech@bnr.ca>
Security Area Director(s):
- Jeffrey Schiller <jis@mit.edu>
Mailing List Information
- General Discussion:aft@unify.com
- To Subscribe: aft-request@unify.com
- Archive: ftp.unify.com:/ietf/aft
Description of Working Group
The goal of the Authenticated Firewall Traversal Working Group is to
specify a protocol to address the issue of application-layer support
for firewall traversal. The working group intends to specify a
traversal protocol supporting both TCP and UDP applications with a
general framework for authentication of the firewall traversal. To
promote interoperability, the group will also propose a base
authentication technique for use within the general authentication
framework.
The output of the group will consist of a standards-track RFC(s)
describing the traversal protocol, the base authentication methods
and a reference implementation of the protocol, and base
authentication methods. The working group will start with the SOCKS
system described by David Koblas in his paper presented at the 1992
Usenix Security Symposium.
Goals and Milestones
- Oct 94
- Issue Internet-Draft on V5 SOCKS protocol.
- Oct 94
- Publish sample implementation for UNIX.
- Nov 94
- Issue Internet-Draft on SOCKS base authentication methods.
- Nov 94
- Publish sample implementation for UNIX.
- Dec 94
- Submit final draft of SOCKS protocol and authentication methods for RFC.
Current Internet-Drafts
No Request for Comments