Internet Monthly Report for August 2000 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following 18 Protocol Actions during the month of August 2000: o Use of HTTP State Management for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o IANA Charset Registration Procedures for publication as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Session Announcement Protocol for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o IS-IS Mesh Groups for publication as an Informational RFC. o Differentiated Services and Tunnels for publication as an Informational RFC. o Internet Web Replication and Caching Taxonomy for publication as an Informational RFC. o Introduction to Accounting Management for publication as an Informational RFC. o Behavior of and Requirements for Internet Firewalls for publication as an Informational RFC. o Next Steps for the IP QoS Architecture for publication as an Informational RFC. o Mobile IP Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting Requirements for publication as an Informational RFC. o Common NNTP Extensions for publication as an Informational RFC. o HTTP State Management Mechanism for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IMAP4 ID extension for publication as a Proposed Standard. o The SIP INFO Method for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Event MIB for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Distributed Management Expression MIB for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Megaco Protocol (With erratta folded in) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o E.164 number and DNS for publication as a Proposed Standard. 2. 18 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of August 2000: o Mobile IP Based Micro Mobility Management Protocol in The Third Generation Wireless Network for publication as an Experimental Protocol. o ICMP Extensions for MultiProtocol Label Switching for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Using 31-Bit Prefixes on IPv4 Point-to-Point Links for publication as a Proposed Standard. o LDAP Password Modify Extended Operation for publication as a Proposed Standard. o XML Media Types for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RSVP Reservations Aggregation for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Registration of parityfec MIME types for publication as a Proposed Standard. o RTP Payload Format for DV Format Video for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Specification of the Null Service Type for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Format of the RSVP DCLASS Object for publication as a Proposed Standard. o DHCP Option for SIP Servers for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Integrated Services in the Presence of Compressible Flows for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Reliability of Provisional Responses in SIP for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time Stamp Protocols (TSP) for publication as a Proposed Standard. o Extensions to IPv6 Neighbor Discovery for Inverse Discovery Specification for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IP Version 6 Management Information Base for the Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol for publication as a Proposed Standard. o IPv6 Node Information Queries for publication as a Proposed Standard. 3. There were 159 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of August 2000: (idmr) o Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (dhc) o The User Class Option for DHCP (none) o Printer MIB v2 (none) o Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language (ipngwg) o IPv6 Node Information Queries (mpls) o Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture (nntpext) o Common NNTP Extensions (mpls) o MPLS Label Stack Encoding (none) o Handle System Overview (none) o Sieve: Vacation Extension (mpls) o VCID Notification over ATM link for LDP (iab) o Architectural Implications of NAT (none) o The audio/mpeg Media Type (tn3270e) o TN3270E Service Location and Session Balancing (ipsec) o A Hybrid Authentication Mode for IKE (ospf) o Unnumbered OSPF Multiple Area Links (ipsec) o A Framework for Group Key Management for Multicast Security (mpls) o LDP Specification (mpls) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Multiprotocol Label Switching, Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) (ipcdn) o Data Over Cable System Quality of Service Management Information Base (DOCSIS-QOS MIB) (urn) o The Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) DNS Resource Record (mpls) o RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels (none) o Tree Delete Control (mpls) o MPLS Support of Differentiated Services (none) o Rescap Profile for Mail User Agents (none) o A taxonomy of multicast security issues (fax) o File Format for Internet Fax (pkix) o An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Authorization (none) o Simple Operations on Subtrees (for LDAP) (avt) o RTP Interoperability Statement (rap) o COPS Usage for Policy Provisioning (none) o Handle System Namespace and Service Definition (megaco) o Megaco IP Phone Media Gateway Application Profile (mpls) o ICMP Extensions for MultiProtocol Label Switching (none) o Uniform Object Locator -- UOL (imapext) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT EXTENSION (ldapext) o Discovering LDAP Services with DNS (none) o Defining the IETF (mpls) o LDP Applicability (diffserv) o New Terminology for Diffserv (avt) o A More Loss-Tolerant RTP Payload Format for MP3 Audio (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol(IPP): Notifications over SNMP via Job Monitoring MIB Traps (aaa) o Criteria for Evaluating AAA Protocols for Network Access (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol(IPP): Job and Printer Administrative Operations (none) o ICMP Extension for One-Way Performance Metrics (avt) o RTP Audio/Video Profile Interoperability Statement (ipngwg) o IPv6 Multihoming with Route Aggregation (none) o SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages (smime) o Compressed Data Content Type for S/MIME (none) o Cisco Systems' Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) (snmpv3) o Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network Management Protocol (snmpv3) o Transport Mappings for the Simple Network Management Protocol (snmpv3) o Management Information Base for the Simple Network Management Protocol (rescap) o The rescap Resolution Protocol (rescap) o The rescap Request and Response Format (openpgp) o Multiple Signatures using Security Multiparts (none) o Determining Strengths For Public Keys Used For Exchanging Symmetric Keys (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Qualified Certificates Profile (openpgp) o MIME Security with OpenPGP (l2tpext) o Securing L2TP using IPSEC (none) o Cooperative Route Filtering Capability for BGP-4 (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): LDAP Schema for Printer Services (iab) o Next Steps for the IP QoS Architecture (none) o Multi-Router Zeroconf Network Requirements (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): The 'ipp-get' Notification Delivery Method (none) o Whois Export and Exchange Format (enum) o E.164 number and DNS (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Permanent Identifier (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Universal Serial Bus (USB) Interface (none) o Internationalized domain names divided by characters key (iab) o Overview of 2000 IAB Wireless Internetworking Workshop (avt) o RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1 (none) o IEEE 802.1X RADIUS Usage Guidelines (none) o Itinerant Internet Protocol (none) o Preparation of text in RFC style (none) o MPLS Label Stack Encapsulation in IP (none) o Network Engineering Extensions (NEXT) for OSPFv3 (fax) o Internet FAX Gateway Protocol (idn) o Using the Universal Character Set in the Domain Name System (UDNS) (none) o Definitions of Managed Objects for SCSI over TCP (sip) o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol (none) o A URN Namespace for Norman Walsh (none) o DNS Security Document Roadmap (none) o Local Mobility Agents in IPv6 (none) o Forward Secrecy Extensions for OpenPGP (none) + Test Specification for MTP2 User Adaptation (none) + ACCORD mobile multi-segment system: IP over ATM performance and QoS trial results evaluation (none) + A simpler EF PHB Redefinition (none) + An approach to enable directory transactions (none) + An Extended QoS Architecture Supporting Differentiated Resilience Requirements of IP Services (none) + SIP Servlet Delivery (none) + RFC1858 is not water-tight (none) o EntrySelection control for LDAP modify and delete operations on multiple entries (none) + Active Alarm MIB (none) + Using the SRP protocol as a key exchange method in Secure Shell (none) + Root SIP Servlet (none) + Multicast Domain Name Service (none) + Voice Messaging IMAP Client Behaviour (none) + SIP extension for tracking locations attempted (none) + HTTP Authentication: Third-Party Authentication (idmr) + Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol Applicability Statement (none) + A Direct Congestion Control Scheme for Non- responsive Flow Control in Diff-Serv IP Networks (none) o SCTP Unreliable Data Mode Extension (vpim) + Partial Non-Delivery Notification (none) o CAP Realtime iTIP-based Scheduling Profile (CRISP) (none) + Scored Fair Metric Calculation (vpim) + Critical Content of Internet Mail (vpim) + Content Hint for Internet Mail (dnsop) + Requiring DNS IN-ADDR Mapping (none) + LDAPv3 Transactions (none) o TFTP Multicast Option (none) + H.323 URL scheme definition (rmt) + NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) Protocol Building Blocks (none) + Operational measurements for Traffic Engineering (none) + Running IKE Phase 2 over Artificial Kerberos IKE SA (none) o RADIUS and IPv6 (none) + A list of possible PINT functions (none) + A list of possible SPIRITS functions (none) + State transfer between Access Routes during Handoff (none) + Unified Memory Space Protocol Specification (none) + LDAP Extension Style Guide (none) + Low Interruption Mobile IP Handoff (none) + A Framework for the LSP Setup Across IGP Areas for MPLS Traffic Engineering (none) + ZRIP: Zero-Configuration Routing Information Protocol (idn) o The DNSII Multilingual Domain Name Protocol (dnsext) + DNS Security Document Roadmap (ipp) + Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): Requirements for Job, Printer, and Device Administrative Operations (none) + VPN-ID-Enhanced IPSec-VPN DOI for ISAKMP (none) + IPv4 over Mobile IPv6 for Dual Stack nodes (idn) + Internationalized Host Names Using Resolvers and Applications (IDNRA) (none) + A Common Profile for Instant Messaging (CPIM) (none) + ICMP Blocked Notification (none) + A Framework for Moving IMPP Forward (none) + Packetnetwork Package for Megaco/H.248 (none) + Dual Stack deployment using DSTM and 6to4 (none) + Generalized IP Handoff (none) + Base 64, 32 and 16 Encodings (none) + Content Language Headers (none) + LDAP vCard Schema (none) o Generalized IP Handoff (none) + Profiles and Parameters in ROHC (tsvwg) + Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit (dnsext) + Authenticating denial of existence in DNS with minimum disclosure (or; An alternative to DNSSEC NXT records) (none) + HTTP Delta Clusters and Templates (none) + Bibliographic Protocol Level 1: Link Resolution and Metapage Retrieval (idn) + DNSII Multilingual Domain Name Resolution (none) + IKE Challenge/Response for Authenticated Cryptographic Keys (Revised) (idn) + Simple ASCII Compatible Encoding (SACE) (none) + ROHC Initialization Headers (none) + Level3 MPLS Protocol Architecture (frnetmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for Circuit to Interface Translation (none) + OSPFv2 Metric Auto-Decay (none) + FTP Plus (none) + RSVP Extensions in Support of OIF Optical UNI Signaling (none) + TCP Message Boundary Option (none) + Using International Standard Book Numbers as Uniform Resource Names (none) + The LDAP Client Caching Proxy Model (none) + A Description of the Camellia Encryption Algorithm (manet) + Topology Broadcast based on Reverse-Path Forwarding (TBRPF) 7. 16 RFCs were published during this period RFC2700 S (none) Internet Official Protocol Standards RFC2879 PS (fax) Content feature schema for Internet fax RFC2880 I (fax) Internet fax T.30 Feature Mapping RFC2881 I (nasreq) Network Access Server Requirements Next Generation (NASREQNG)NAS Model RFC2882 I (nasreq) Network Access Servers Requirements: Extended RADIUS Practices RFC2883 PS (tsvwg) An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) Option for TCP RFC2884 I (none) Performance Evaluation of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in IP Networks RFC2885 PS (megaco) MEGACO Protocol RFC2886 PS (megaco) Megaco Errata RFC2887 I (rmt) The Reliable Multicast Design Space for Bulk Data Transfer RFC2888 I (none) Secure Remote Access with L2TP RFC2889 I (bmwg) Benchmarking Methodology for LAN Switching Devices RFC2890 PS (none) Key and Sequence Number Extensions to GRE RFC2891 PS (ldapext) LDAP Control Extension for Server Side Sorting of Search Results RFC2893 PS (ngtrans) Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers RFC2894 PS (ipngwg) Router Renumbering for IPv6