Internet Monthly Report for January, 2000 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following 14 Protocol Actions during the month of January, 2000: o UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 for publication as an Informational RFC. o A Model for Presence and Instant Messaging for publication as an Informational RFC. o Instant Messaging / Presence Protocol Requirements for publication as an Informational RFC. o Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating Systems, Version 1.0 for publication as an Informational RFC. o Scalable Routing Design Principles for publication as an Informational RFC. o Media Gateway Control Protocol Architecture and Requirements for publication as an Informational RFC. o Network Services Monitoring MIB for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Mail Monitoring MIB for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol using SNMPv2 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 for publication as a Proposed Standard. o URLs for Telephone Calls for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Certificate Management Messages over CMS for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Mobile IP Network Access Identifier Extension for IPv4 for publication as a Proposed Standard. 4. 15 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of January, 2000: o Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Internet fax T.30 Feature Mapping for consideration as an Informational RFC. o Requirements for Inter-operable Internet EDI for consideration as an Informational RFC. o LIPKEY - A Low Infrastructure Public Key Mechanism Using SPKM for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Content feature schema for Internet fax for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o MIME-based Secure EDI for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload for Text Conversation for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and Telephony Signals for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o LDAP Control Extension for Server Side Sorting of Search Results for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o MPLS using ATM VC Switching for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Use of Label Switching on Frame Relay Networks Specification for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o TCP Processing of the IP Precedence Field for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Indicating media features for MIME content for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o MIME content types in media feature expressions for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base (Standard) 5. Two new working groups were created IP Security Policy (ipsp) Configuration Management with SNMP (snmpconf) and two working groups were concluded DNS IXFR, Notification, and Dynamic Update (dnsind) The Internet and the Millennium Problem (2000) 6. There were 140 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of January, 2000: (aaa) + Introduction to Accounting Management (none) + Multi-protocol Lambda Switching: Issues in Combining MPLS Traffic Engineering Control With Optical Crossconnects (megaco) + MEGACO Packages Not Included In MEGACO/H.248 White Draft (none) + AAA Authorization Application Examples (none) + AAA Authorization Requirements (none) + AAA Authorization Framework (none) + Generic AAA Architecture (ipfc) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre Channel Standard (svrloc) o Service Location Protocol Modifications for IPv6 (none) o Definition of the inetOrgPerson LDAP Object Class (drums) o Internet Message Format (none) o Securing FTP with TLS (dhc) o DHCP Relay Agent Information Option (avt) o RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control (disman) o Event MIB (none) o Uniform Resource Identifiers for Television Broadcasts (none) o Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating Systems, Version 1.0 (mpls) o The Assignment of the Information Field and Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol (ldapext) o The Java LDAP Application Program Interface (dhc) o DHCP Continuation Option Code (malloc) o The Multicast Address Set Claim (MASC) Protocol (malloc) o The Internet Multicast Address Allocation Architecture (avt) o RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications (mpls) o Carrying Label Information in BGP-4 (none) o ARP and IP Broadcast over HIPPI-800 (none) o E.164 number and DNS (madman) o Network Services Monitoring MIB (none) o Deliver By SMTP Service Extension (aaa) + Requirements for Internet-Scale Accounting Management (none) o INTERNET KERMIT SERVICE (none) o TELNET KERMIT OPTION (mpls) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Multiprotocol Label Switching, Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) (snmpv3) o Coexistence between SNMP versions (mmusic) o A Message Bus for Local Coordiantion (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time Stamp Protocols (fax) o Internet fax T.30 Feature Mapping (none) o IPSec Re-keying Issues (mpls) o LDP State Machine (none) o Tree-based Reliable Multicast (TRAM) (pppext) o PPP over Simple Data Link (SDL) using SONET/SDH with ATM-like framing (madman) o Mail Monitoring MIB (ipngwg) o Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments (tls) o Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 (manet) o On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocol (ODMRP) for Ad-Hoc Networks (mobileip) o Mobile IP Challenge/Response Extensions (nat) o An SNMP Application Level Gateway for Payload Address Translation (none) o IP and ARP over HIPPI-6400 (GSN) (megaco) o Media Gateway Control Protocol Architecture and Requirements (vrrp) o Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (none) o Advance Internet Caller-ID Delivery Service (nat) o Realm Specific IP: Protocol Specification (mobileip) o Mobile IP Network Access Identifier Extension for IPv4 (isis) o Domain-wide Prefix Distribution with Multi-Level IS-IS (radius) o Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) (megaco) o MEGACO Protocol (ipngwg) o IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol (none) o Scalable Routing Design Principles (ldapext) o The Java LDAP Application Program Interface Asynchronous Extension (nat) o RSIP Support for End-to-end IPSEC (dhc) o The Name Service Search Option for DHCP (none) o AAA Registration Keys for Mobile IP (none) o RObust Checksum-based header COmpression (ROCCO) (pint) o A proposal for new PINT building blocks with applications to Conference Calling (none) o Using PIM to Distribute MPLS Labels for Multicast Routes (iptel) o Call Processing Language Framework and Requirements (gsmp) o General Switch Management Protocol (avt) o RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and Telephony Signals (rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base (ipsec) o IKE Base Mode (none) o IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers (none) o UTF-5, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646 (none) o Interne Security Glossary (none) o An Effective way for Enhancement of TCP Performance in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ngtrans) o 6BONE Pre-Qualification for Address Prefix Allocation (6PAPA) (none) o Secure Remote Password SASL Mechanism (none) o Intrusion Detection Message MIB (none) o Referal extension to the Whois protocol (none) o LDAP Object Class for Holding Certificate Information (ldapext) o Discovering LDAP Services with DNS (tsvwg) o TCP Processing of the IP Precedence Field (none) o A proposal to apply ECN into Wireless and Mobile Networks (sigtran) o Simple Control Transmission Protocol (none) o XML Media Types (rsvp) o RSVP Refresh Reduction Extensions (fax) o Content feature schema for Internet fax (iab) o Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) (sigtran) o SS7 MTP2-User Adaptation Layer (mobileip) o Mobile IP Vendor/Organization-Specific Extensions (cat) o The Secure Remote Password GSS-API Mechanism (SRPGM) (mboned) o Anycast RP mechanism using PIM and MSDP (mobileip) o Mobile IP Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Requirements (idwg) o Intrusion Detection Exchange Format Data Model (mobileip) o Mobile IP Based Micro Mobility Management Protocol in The Third Generation Wireless Network (none) o IMPROVING TOPOLOGY DATA BASE ACCURACY WITH LSP FEEDBACK VIA CR-LDP (deltav) o Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (sip) o The SIP INFO Method (iptel) o Telephony Routing over IP (TRIP) (none) o Congestion Control Principles (zeroconf) o ZeroConf Requirements (none) o AAA Protocols : Comparison between RADIUS, DIAMETER and COPS. (none) o Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) (msdp) o Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) (impp) o Message Information Data Format (none) o NSI Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 (isis) + Routing IPv6 with IS-IS (none) + Stream URI Scheme (none) + Basic Internet Security Model (none) + PHONECTL Protocol (pppext) + PPP Multiplexed Frame Option (ipsec) + OpenPGP Key Usage in IKE (none) + Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Virtual Circuits Version 1.0 (none) + Foreign Agent Assisted Hand-off (none) + IP Version 6 Multicast Addressing Architecture < draft-haberman-ipngwg-mcast-arch-00.txt> (none) + RTP Payload Load Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1 (bgmp) + Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP): Protocol Specification (none) + Core MPLS IP VPN Architecture (ospf) + Guidelines for Efficient LSA Refreshment in OSPF (none) + IP Based Telephone-to-Web Search Engine (none) + MPLS/IP Header Compression (sip) + Reliability of Provisional Responses in SIP (sip) + Mandating SIP Extension Support by Servers (none) + BGRP: A Framework for Scalable Resource Reservation (ngtrans) + An IPv6-to-IPv4 transport relay translator (none) + Control of Service Context using SIP Request-URI (none) o DHCP Next Server Option (none) + Private IP Encapsulation within IP (PIPE) (none) + Call Model Integration Framework (none) + Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format Comparison of SMI and XML Implementations (none) + MIB Object Dependency Expression (MODEX) (trade) + Requirements for XML Messaging Version 1.0 Release 00 (none) + Blocks eXtensible eXchange Service (none) + Blocks: Architectural Precepts (none) + The Blocks Simple Exchange Profile (none) + The Blocks eXtensible eXchange Protocol (gsmp) + GSMP Packet Encapsulations for ATM, Ethernet and TCP (sip) + MIME media types for ISUP and QSIG Objects (none) + Extended RETR - Extension to POP3 (none) + Compatible Internationalized Domain Names Using Compression (none) + Probabilistic Optimization of LKH-based Multicast Key Distribution Schemes (dhc) + The Classless Static Route Option for DHCP 7. Eight RFCs were published during this period RFC2739 PS (calsch) Calendar attributes for vCard and LDAP RFC2741 PS (agentx) Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol RFC2742 PS (agentx) Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents RFC2743 PS (cat) Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1 RFC2744 PS (cat) Generic Security Service API Version 2: C-bindings RFC2754 I (rps) RPS IANA Issues RFC2756 E (none) Hyper Text Caching Protocol (HTCP/0.0) RFC2757 I (none) Long Thin Networks