apparea — Applications Area general session

The apparea general session is meant to give an overview of
Applications Area meetings for the week and to cover items of interest
to people who follow the area in general. This time, in addition to
the introductions to the BOFs, both formal (OGPX) and informal, we had
brief looks at these items:

  1. Issues with using FTP in a mixed IPv6 and IPv4 environment,
especially considering using translators as a last resort for clients
or servers that don’t support the EPSV and EPRT commands.

  2. An introduction to SCTP, with the idea of promoting it as an
alternative to TCP for some applications (such as HTTP).

  3. A proposal to pull the vendor name registry from the ACAP
protocol specification, so it can be used more generally. Brief
discussion here as to whether we need to use readable names (and if
so, what characters should be valid), or whether the enterprise
numbers that are already extensively registered would be preferable.

  4. Continuing the discussion on a timezone registry and protocol,
which came up in the vcarddav session at IETF 74. This may turn into a working group,
because of the potential complexity.

  5. Suggestion to move the SPF and Sender ID specifications,
currently “experimental”, to “historic” status. It seems clear, after
the discussion, that the consensus is against any such idea.

  6. A proposal to create an Abuse Reporting Format (ARF) working
group, based on the Email Feedback Reports draft.

  7. An introduction to my proposed Message Recall draft, which will
be discussed in more detail in the morg working group session.

  8. An introduction to Zhipeng Zhou’s DRM Proxy Architecture draft.