Internet Monthly Report for August 2001 1. The IESG approved or recommended the following two Protocol Actions during the month of August 2001: o IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites for publication as an Informational RFC. o Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer's Guide for publication as an Informational RFC. 2. Five Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of August 2001: o Assigned Numbers: RFC 1700 is Obsolete for consideration as a Best Current Practices RFC. o Versioning Extensions to WebDAV for consideration as a Proposed Standard. o Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the Simple Network Management Protocol (Standard) o Transport Mappings for the Simple Network Management Protocol (Standard) o Management Information Base for the Simple Network Management Protocol (Standard) 4. There were 197 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of August 2001: (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1 (ldapext) o The Java LDAP Application Program Interface (none) o The application/smil and application/smil+xml Media Types (none) o Mobile IP Public Key Based Authentication (mpls) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the Multiprotocol Label Switching, Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) (isis) o IS-IS extensions for Traffic Engineering (mpls) o Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Traffic Engineering Management Information Base (avt) o RTP Payload Format for DV Format Video (smime) o Password-based Encryption for S/MIME (none) o Definition of the DNS GL Resource Record used to encode Geographic Locations (diffserv) o Management Information Base for the Differentiated Services Architecture (none) o Uniform Object Locator -- UOL (imapext) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT EXTENSION (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): IPP Event Notifications and Subscriptions (diffserv) o New Terminology for Diffserv (mobileip) o IP Mobility Support for IPv4, revised (sip) o SIP Session Timer (deltav) o Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (iptel) o Telephony Routing over IP (TRIP) (zeroconf) o Zeroconf IP Host Requirements (none) o Architectural Considerations for Providing Carrier Class Telephony Services Utilizing SIP-based Distributed Call Control Mechanisms (none) o SIP proxy-to-proxy extensions for supporting DCS (none) o EAP GSS Authentication Protocol (l2tpext) o L2TP Over AAL5 (openpgp) o OpenPGP Message Format (smime) o S/MIME Symmetric Key Management and Distribution (gsmp) o GSMP Packet Encapsulations for ATM, Ethernet and TCP (none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - MULTIAPPEND EXTENSION (dhc) o DHCP reconfigure extension (ipsra) o Requirements for IPsec Remote Access Scenarios (ipp) o Internet Printing Protocol (IPP): LDAP Schema for Printer Services (none) o A Path Protection/Restoration Mechanism for MPLS Networks (gsmp) o General Switch Management Protocol Applicability (none) o Sieve -- Subaddress Extension (none) o Sieve -- Regular Expression Extension (policy) o Information Model for Describing Network Device QoS Mechanisms (ngtrans) o Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Standards (none) + Textual Conventions for Transport Addresses (none) o GENERAL NETWORK PROTOCOL (GNP) (none) o IEEE 802.1X RADIUS Usage Guidelines (none) o Extensions to RSVP-TE for MPLS Path Protection (none) o Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC), Protocol Specification (none) o SILC Packet Protocol (none) o SILC Key Exchange and Authentication Protocols (idn) o Using the Universal Character Set in the Domain Name System (UDNS) (none) o OSPF as the PE/CE Protocol in BGP/MPLS VPNs (urn) o URI Resolution using the Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (urn) o A DDDS Database Using The Domain Name System (none) o Policy-based Accounting (imapext) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - THREAD EXTENSION (mpls) o Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) FEC-To-NHLFE (FTN) Management Information Base (none) o Universal Service Protocol (tls) o AES Ciphersuites for TLS (ipsec) o More MODP Diffie-Hellman groups for IKE (none) o DHCP Domain Search Option (ips) o Fibre Channel Over TCP/IP (FCIP) (smime) o Securing X.400 Content with S/MIME (sip) o SIP Extensions for supporting Distributed Call State (sip) o SIP Extensions for Media Authorization (sip) o Integration of Resource Management and SIP (none) o SDP Simple Capability Negotiation (rohc) o ROHC over PPP (none) o An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters (sacred) o Securely Available Credentials - Credential Framework (pilc) o Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQues (ARQ) (none) o The IANA XML Registry (ips) o Bootstrapping Clients using the iSCSI Protocol (tewg) o Traffic Engineering & QoS Methods for IP-, ATM-, & Based Multiservice Networks (none) o Extensions to CRLDP for MPLS Path Protection (none) o DNS URL scheme (calsch) o CAP Realtime iTIP-based Scheduling Profile (CRISP) (mmusic) o Grouping of m lines in SDP (none) o Extending the Number of IS-IS LSP Fragments Beyond the 256 Limit (none) o Basic MGCP Packages (none) o User Profile Information Protocol (avt) o An RTP Payload Format for EVRC Speech (idwg) o The TUNNEL Profile (none) o LMTP Service Extension for Ignoring Recipient Quotas (none) o TDM over IP (none) o Personal Content Tunnels (ospf) o Hitless OSPF Restart (none) o Signaling for Fast Restoration in Optical Mesh Networks (ips) o iFCP - A Protocol for Internet Fibre Channel Storage Networking (provreg) o Generic Registry-Registrar Protocol Requirements (opsarea) o Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses (none) + A Framework for Purpose Built Keys (PBK) (none) o LIN6: A Solution to Mobility and Multi-Homing in IPv6 (none) o Signaled Digits in SIP (policy) o Policy Core Information Model Extensions (trade) o Internet Open Trading Protocol Version 2 Requirements (sming) o SMIng Requirements (krb-wg) o Generating KDC Referrals to locate Kerberos realms (apex) o The APEX Access Service (apex) o The Application Exchange Core (apex) o The APEX Presence Service (ips) o FC Frame Encapsulation (smime) o Cryptographic Message Syntax (mmusic) o Session Description and Capability Negotiation (xmldsig) o XML-Signature Syntax and Processing (none) o SILC Commands (none) o Handle System Namespace and Service Definition (none) o Handle System Protocol (ver 2.0) Specification (none) o Handle System Overview (none) o APEX Endpoint Servers (none) o Requirements and framework for ATM network interworking over MPLS (mpls) o Definitions of Textual Conventions and OBJECT-IDENTITIES for Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)Management (rohc) o Requirements and assumptions for ROHC 0-byte IP/UDP/RTP compression (none) o The application/ogg Media Type (sip) o Mapping of ISUP Overlap Signalling to SIP (ssm) o An Overview of Source-Specific Multicast(SSM) Deployment (apex) o The APEX Option Party Pack, Part Deux! (mobileip) o Requirements of a QoS Solution for Mobile IP (none) o Diameter Base Protocol MIB (mobileip) o Generalized Key Distribution Extensions for Mobile IP (idr) o BGP Extended Communities Attribute (pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Proxy Certificate Profile (none) o A Model for Context Transfer in IEEE 802 (none) o Transitional Integration of Mobile IPv4 and Mobile IPv6 (none) o iSCSI Security Requirements and SRP-based ESP Keys (tewg) o Alternative Technical Solution for MPLS DiffServ TE (none) o Using TCP DSACKs and SCTP Duplicate TSNs to Detect Spurious Retransmissions (none) o A method for doing opportunistic encryption with IKE (none) o LH-DMHA -Last Hop DMHA(Dormant Mode Host Alerting) Protocol (none) + Handling IRC continuation message lines (none) + Multi Homing Translation Protocol (MHTP) (none) + Authentication of Mobile IPv6 Binding Updates and Acknowledgments (none) + OpenPGP Elliptic Curve Algorithm Formats (none) + Geolocation/Privacy Object Requirements < draft-rosen-geopriv-requirements-00.txt> (none) o The Simple Proof Supporting the Findaings from the Logical Analysis of the Binary System Which disposes the Logical Dispute fostered by Modern Interpretation for Counting in Binary Notation (none) + Definitions of Managed Objects For iFCP (none) + NOPEER community for BGP route scope control (none) + HTTP Authentication with EAP (none) + Subset-Difference based Key Management for Secure Multicast (none) + Digital TV Channel Changing Protocol (none) + Requirements to mobility while transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 (none) + IPv4 over 6to4 and 6to4 mobility (none) + Technique of DNS use at home network (none) + Geolocation/Privacy Object Requirements (ldup) + Profile for Framing LDAPv3 Operations (none) + Use of a reserved label value defined in RFC 3032 for MPLS OAM functions (none) + Ethernet Over IP - A Layer 2 VPN Solution using Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) (sip) + SCTP as a Transport for SIP (none) + An RTP Payload Format for SMV Speech (none) + PPPoE Extensions For QoS (l2tpext) + L2TP Tunnel Switching (none) + Protecting EAP with TLS (EAP-TLS-EAP) (rohc) o A Link-Layer Assisted ROHC Profile for IP/UDP/RTP (none) + Assigned Numbers: RFC 1700 is Obsolete (none) + ConSION: Control & Signaling Intelligence Overlay Ntworks for Optical Networking (none) + Comments on RFC 2453 (none) + Datatypes for WebDAV properties (impp) + CPIM Presence Information Data Format (none) + Cryptographic Message Syntax for MP3/MPEG I, II, and III Secure MPEG (SMPEG) (none) + Extensible Provisioning Protocol E.164 Number Mapping (none) + The HTTP header for the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) (pppext) + EAP Tunneled TLS Authentication Protocol (EAP-TTLS) (none) + A Policy Control Mechanism is IS-IS Using Administrative Tags (ips) + Finding FCIP Entities Using SLP (none) + Keyword Lookup Systems As a Class of Naming Systems (none) + Securing iSCSI using IPsec (iptel) + Management Information Base for Telephony Routing over IP (TRIP) (none) + Supreme Chinese Domain Name System (none) + Evaluation of various ACEs with existing Chinese (BIG5) Domain Names (none) + Out-Of-Path (OOP) Agents and MIDCOM Framework Integration (pkix) + Supplemental Algorithms and Identifiers for the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile (tewg) + Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering (none) + IP multicasting and broadcasting extension for PPPoE Protocol (tewg) + A Framework for Internet Traffic Engineering Measurement (idr) + Dynamic Capability for BGP-4 (none) + MWPP: A resilient MIDI RTP packetization for MPEG 4 Structured Audio (none) + Key Replacement for Revoked Keys in OpenPGP (none) + 'duri' and 'tdb': URN Namespaces based on dated URIs (none) + SCTP Dynamic Checksum selection (none) + Message Disposition Notification (none) + The Adaptive Demand-Driven Multicast Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (ADMR) (mmusic) + RTCP attribute in SDP (provreg) + Extensible Provisioning Protocol Transport Over BEEP (provreg) + Extensible Provisioning Protocol Container (none) + MEGACO Control Association State Machine (none) + Locating Internet Telephony Gateways via SLP (none) + RIP version 2 (none) + Using Serial Item and Contribution Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names (none) + Qualifying the Root Path Option for iSCSI Boot (sip) + SIP Extensions for NAT Traversal (none) + Storing application public keys in the DNS (none) + Criteria and procedures for registering domains corresponding to E.164 Country Codes in e164.arpa (none) + DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol (none) + Framework for ENUM Neutrality (none) + Host Name Resolution Protocol (HNRP) for IPv6 nodes (none) + IPNGLS - IP Next Generation Label Switching (none) + BICC extension of SIP in Inter-Network Configuration (none) + Guidelines of Applicability Statements for PPVPNs (none) + MIDCOM Topology Using Realms (none) + The SIP Negotiate Method (none) + Multihoming issues in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (none) + DPAC: Dynamic Paging Area Configuration (none) + Required Information in Midcom Agents 5. 19 RFCs were published during this period RFC2999 I (none) Request for Comments Summary RFC3144 PS (rmonmib) Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for Interface Parameters Monitoring RFC3148 I (ippm) A Framework for Defining Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity Metrics RFC3150 B (pilc) End-to-end Performance Implications of Slow Links RFC3151 I (none) A URN Namespace for Public Identifiers RFC3153 PS (pppext) PPP Multiplexed RFC3154 I (seamoby) Requirements and Functional Architecture for an IP Mobile Node Alerting Protocol RFC3155 B (pilc) End-to-end Performance Implications of Links with Errors RFC3156 PS (openpgp) MIME Security with OpenPGP RFC3157 I (sacred) Securely Available Credentials - Requirements RFC3158 I (avt) RTP Testing Strategies RFC3159 PS (rap) Structure of Policy Provisioning Information (SPPI) RFC3161 PS (pkix) Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time Stamp Protocols (TSP) RFC3162 PS (none) RADIUS and IPv6 RFC3163 E (none) ISO/IEC 9798-3 Authentication SASL Mechanism RFC3164 I (syslog) The BSD Syslog Protocol RFC3165 PS (disman) Definitions of Managed Objects for the Delegation of Management Scripts RFC3166 I (none) Request to Move RFC1403 to Historic Status RFC3167 I (none) Request to Move RFC1745 to Historic Status