2.1.8 Extensions to FTP (ftpext)

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NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 39th IETF Meeting in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It may now be out-of-date.

Chair(s):

Paul Hethmon <phethmon@hethmon.com>

Applications Area Director(s):

Keith Moore <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>
Harald Alvestrand <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>

Applications Area Advisor:

Keith Moore <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>

Mailing Lists:

General Discussion: ftp-wg@hops.ag.utk.edu
To Subscribe: ftp-wg-request@hops.ag.utk.edu
Archive: hops.ag.utk.edu/ftp-wg/archives/

Description of Working Group:

1) Recommend changes to the FTP protocol to support users of languages other than English.

2) Define a new command for a uniform directory listing between platforms. This command will provide an alternative to the existing LIST and NLST commands which has a common format between all FTP implementations and which also provides the ability to represent non-ASCII filenames.

3) Make recommendations for standards-track protocol extensions to support IPv6 in FTP. The group will evaluate RFC 1639 and recommend, revise, or redo as appropriate.

4) Define a mechanism for ftp clients and servers to transmit information regarding extensions supported and not supported.

5) Propose extensions, and/or review proposals submitted by others, to improve the security of FTP.

6) Define a standardized method of checkpoint/restart which works for the stream transfer mode.

7) Define a means of file transfer between a client and server (as opposed to a client mediating a transfer between two servers) which does not require the IP addresses of the endpoints to be transmitted in the FTP protocol.

8) Produce an informational document describing the SIZE and MDTM commands as currently used.

The following issues are specifically omitted from the working group's charter, but may be added by the Area Directors if time permits, once the above goals have been achieved.

1) Compression of files for transmission.

2) Internationalization of charset conversion for transmission.

Goals and Milestones:

Oct 96

  

Issue an Internet-Draft covering internationalization issues.

Nov 96

  

Issue an Internet-Draft for a standard listing command.

Nov 96

  

Issue an Internet-Draft for an extension mechanism.

Feb 97

  

Issue a second Internet-Draft for an extension mechanism.

Feb 97

  

Issue a second Internet-Draft for a standard listing command.

Mar 97

  

Issue an Internet-Draft for IPv6 support, and to remove the necessity of transmitting IP addresses in the FTP protocol for transfers between a client and server.

Mar 97

  

Issue an Internet-Draft for checkpoint/restart.

Mar 97

  

Submit the listing and extension mechanism Internet-Drafts to IESG for consideration as Proposed Standards.

Apr 97

  

Issue a second Internet-Draft for IPv6 support and to remove the necessity of transmitting IP addresses.

Apr 97

  

Issue a second Internet-Draft for checkpoint/restart.

May 97

  

Submit the IPv6/IP and checkpoint/restart Internet-Drafts to IESG for consideration as Proposed Standards.

Jun 97

  

Submit draft-allman-ftp-sec-consider as Informational RFC.

Jun 97

  

Issue revised 'EPRT/EPSV' I-D. Title: 'FTP Extensions for IPv6, Address Translation, and Mobile IP.'

Jun 97

  

Issue revised I-D for MLST/MLSD/REST. Title: 'Extended Directory Listing and Restart Mechanism for FTP'

Jun 97

  

Submit 'FEAT' I-D as a proposed standard. Title: 'Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol'

Jun 97

  

Issue revised 'EPRT/EPSV' I-D.

Jun 97

  

Submit draft-allman-ftp-sec-consider as Informational RFC.

Done

  

Issue a second Internet Draft for i18n.

Done

  

Issue an Internet-Draft covering internationalization issues.

Done

  

Issue an Internet-Draft for checkpoint/restart.

Done

  

Issue updated I-D for i18n.

Done

  

Issue a second Internet-Draft for MLST and FEAT.

Done

  

Issue an I-D for ipv6 support.

Done

  

Issue an Internet-Draft for MLST and FEAT.

Done

  

Issue a third Internet Draft for MLST and FEAT.

Jul 97

  

submit MLST/REST as proposed standard

Jul 97

  

submit revised I18N I-D

Jul 97

  

submit EPRT/EPSV as a proposed standard

Aug 97

  

conclude

Aug 97

  

submit I18N I-D as a proposed standard

Internet-Drafts:

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