1.2 IETF Progress Report


The IESG and IETF have been quite active since the August IETF Meeting in London: 39 Protocol Actions approved, 54 Last Calls issued, 1274 Internet-Drafts announced, and 60 RFCs published.

Between the IETF meetings in London and Salt Lake City, five working groups were created:

1. Prefix Taxonomy Ongoing Measurement & Inter Network (ptomaine)
2. IP Flow Information Export (ipfix)
3. Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network A (pana)
4. Next Steps in Signaling (nsis)
5. Session Initiation Proposal Investigation (sipping)

and one working group concluded:

1. Process for Organization of Internet Standards Ongoing (poisson)

Sixty RFCs were published following the London IETF meeting in August:

RFC2999	I	Request for Comments Summary
RFC3000	PS	Internet Official Protocol Standards
RFC3099	PS	Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3000-3099
RFC3102	E	Realm Specific IP: A Framework
RFC3103	E	Realm Specific IP: Protocol Specification
RFC3104	E	RSIP Support for End-to-end IPSEC
RFC3105	E	Finding an RSIP Server with SLP
RFC3117	I	On the Design of Application Protocols
RFC3125	E	Electronic Signature Policies
RFC3126	I	Electronic Signature Formats for long term electronic signatures
RFC3143	I	Known HTTP Proxy/Caching Problems
RFC3144	PS	Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for Interface Parameters Monitoring
RFC3146	PS	Transmission of IPv6 Packets over IEEE 1394 Networks
RFC3148	I	A Framework for Defining Empirical Bulk Transfer Capacity Metrics
RFC3149	I	MGCP Business Phone Packages
RFC3150	BCP	End-to-end Performance Implications of Slow Links
RFC3151	I	A URN Namespace for Public Identifiers
RFC3152	BCP	Delegation of IP6.ARPA
RFC3153	PS	PPP Multiplexed
RFC3154	I	Requirements and Functional Architecture for an IP Mobile Node Alerting Protocol
RFC3155	BCP	End-to-end Performance Implications of Links with Errors
RFC3156	PS	MIME Security with OpenPGP
RFC3157	I	Securely Available Credentials - Requirements
RFC3158	I	RTP Testing Strategies
RFC3159	PS	Structure of Policy Provisioning Information  SPPI
RFC3160	I	The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force
RFC3161	PS	Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Time Stamp Protocols  TSP
RFC3162	PS	RADIUS and IPv6
RFC3163	E	ISO/IEC 9798-3 Authentication SASL Mechanism
RFC3164	I	The BSD Syslog Protocol
RFC3165	PS	Definitions of Managed Objects for the Delegation of Management Scripts
RFC3166	I	Request to Move RFC1403 to Historic Status
RFC3167	I	Request to Move RFC1745 to Historic Status
RFC3168	PS	The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification ECN to IP
RFC3169	I	Criteria for Evaluating Network Access Server Protocols
RFC3170	I	IP Multicast Applications: Challenges and Solutions
RFC3171	BCP	IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments
RFC3172	BCP	Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain  'ARPA'
RFC3173	PS	IP Payload Compression Protocol IPComp
RFC3174	I	US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 SHA1
RFC3175	PS	RSVP Reservations Aggregation
RFC3176	I	sFlow: Method for Monitoring Traffic in Switched and Routed Networks
RFC3177	I	IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites
RFC3178	I	IPv6 multihoming support at site exit routers
RFC3179	E	Script MIB Extensibility Protocol Version 1.1
RFC3180	BCP	GLOP Addressing in 233/8
RFC3181	PS	Signaled Preemption Priority Policy Element
RFC3182	PS	Identity Representation for RSVP
RFC3183	E	Domain Security Services using S/MIME
RFC3184	BCP	IETF Guidelines for Conduct
RFC3185	PS	Reuse of CMS Content Encryption Keys
RFC3187	I	Using International Standard Book Numbers as Uniform Resource Names
RFC3188	I	Using National Bibliography Numbers as Uniform Resource Names
RFC3191	DS	Minimal GSTN address format in Internet Mail
RFC3192	DS	Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail
RFC3193	PS	Securing L2TP using IPSEC
RFC3194	I	The Host-Density Ratio for Address Assignment Efficiency An update on the H ratio
RFC3196	I	Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementer's Guide
RFC3198	I	Terminology for Policy-Based Management
RFC3203	PS	DHCP reconfigure extension