2.1.1 Applications/Transport Joint Session (apptsv)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 64th IETF Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. It may now be out-of-date.

Last Modified: 2005-10-12

Chair(s):

Allison Mankin <mankin@psg.com>
Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>
Scott Hollenbeck <shollenbeck@verisign.com>
Jon Peterson <jon.peterson@neustar.biz>

Applications Area Director(s):

Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>
Scott Hollenbeck <shollenbeck@verisign.com>

Applications Area Advisor:

Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>

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IETF 64 APPS/TSV General Area Meeting
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Chairs Ted Hardie, Scott Hollenbeck, Allison Mankin, Jon Peterson
Scribe: Andy Newton

Eric Rescorla mentions hash functions.  Mentions MD5 and SHA-1 theoretical weaknesses.  Notes that most applications are not broken.  Something new is coming, but we do not know when.  Hash functions can be used to protect against downgrade attacks.

Agenda Bashing - Scott
No issues with the agenda

APP Status - Scott
NNTPEXT closed and completed work
Interim - LEMONDADE (workshop with OMA MeM): Ted says that requirements still coming into LEMONADE.  Lots of external reliance on LEMONADE.
Appeals related to APPS:
  MMS/Mapping (LEMONADE)
  - resolved by draft returning to WG
  SenderID/SPF Experimentals (MARID)
  - Not yet resolved
  LTRU Note to RFC Editor
  - appeal to the IESG will be denied

APP Working Groups, BOFs, and Docs of Interest
WIDEX WG (Remote UI BoF in Paris)
XML-Patch-Ops

Lisa D. asks if anybody from NetConf is attending.  Scott says a few.
Lisa says that this came out of SIMPLE.  Work is to change parts of an XML file.
This has morphed into a generalized XML diff application
Needs wide review.

Dave Crocker: This doesn't seem like an IETF activity. Why here?
Lisa: discuss at BoF
Leslie D. : IETF has had discussions with W3C on this already
Lisa: the intent is not to form a wg

Internationalized EMAIL BoF
John K.: Last phase of I18N work is non-ascii in local parts of addresses.  This BoF is to discuss the drafts on this issue

BoFs of Interest outside of APPS
DKIM Monday at 1300
Dave C.: DKIM has been going outside the IETF for over a year.  This is an outgrowth called MASS.  Groups wants to get chartered.
CallHome Tuesday 1850
Ted explains this came from Eliot Lear for a specific problem, but it may be much more general than that.

TSV - Jon takes over
TSVWG James Polk is joining as chair
Recharter of TSVWG.  Rework of RSVP and SCTP
Two BoFs of note.
VOIPEER
-voice over IP
-develop big picture
FECFRAME
-forward error correction for unreliable transport protocols
-with a mind to real-time applications, RTP/RTCP

TSVWG meeting
-tcp extened mib
-sctp auth/threats
-ecn topics
-tcp/ip quickstart

The TSV and RAI Area Split - Allison Mankin
TSV area has observed clustering of interest around RAI for some time
-working set of people and topics
-scheduling set of groups
-affinity to several apps groups
Continued to see benefit of closeness withing TSV until VOIPEER came along.
Benefits of new TSV Area

Description of TSV
-some words now exist, sent to the nomcom
-transport protocols (services offered to upper layers): dccp, rm protocols, dtls, maintaingin tcp, sctp, rsv, diffserv
-congenstion control issues, QOS and * session issues that effacet endpoint services (e.g. BEHAVE).

Potential Growth of TSV
-framework for FEC
-very high bandwidth congestion
-transport elements of peer-to-peer including the overlay multicast elements

Description of RAI
Realtime Applications and Infrastructure Area
Rule of thumb: work is needed to support real-time interpersonal apps
No neat mathematical boundaries.  Not going to be neat all the time.  Flow between the areas.
DCCP will work on voice related congestion control
SIPPING will have transport work.
No wall between the areas.

Management footnotes
Two open slots - two open slots in RAI.  Allison is stepping down.  So three open slots.
PROTO can be used to help chairs make the transition work.
Might be a few-bumps with the secretariat database

Opening up Discussions

Ted says APPS chairs are just as good as the chairs in TSV
Ted: we hope the interconnections between APPS, TSV, and RAI will be strengthened by this.  For apps, this is all part of longer effort to clean up things.

Jonathan R.: something similar to TSVWG specific to RAI things.  We have lacked fora for this.  Particularly emergency services here.
Keith M.: concern about putting IM in RAI.  There are lots of different factions in the IM space.  Some are more like apps, some like telephony.  By putting SIMPLE in there you are causing a bit of an issues and bias.
Jon P.: IM is related to presence, but also telephony is very tied to it as well.  Certainly there are IM protos that are more familiar with apps and some are more familiar with RAI
Ted H.: didn't want to start splitting working groups to do this, but that doesn't mean we won't be doing that in the future if we see the need.
Keith M.: presence is very much an apps area thing.  It isn't really delay sensitive, but interpacket or jitter sensitive where this divide should be.
Allison: not topic defined but more worker set defined.  there will never be a clean definition that matches everybody's expectation
Keith M: cross area review is getting harder and harder.  
Dave Arand: what about groups not on either list
Allison: oops.  
Dean: SIP related to IM, there are things we could have done better. the unvoiced concern it looks like RAI means we are turning over realtime communications to the SIP heads.
Jon P: there is some validity to that concern, but we are not creating new working group but taking existing working groups... not giving any more working groups to sip heads.  this is just the set of wgs we have at the moment.

Open Mic:
Ted: one idea for further comment, how to manage individual submissions. some wgs are closed but we still have individual docs.  we need APPSWG similar to TSVWG to handle individual submissions.  wg chairs would not be the ADs.
Glen Parsons: is the intent that all individual subs be assigned to a wg?
Ted: only AD sponsored.
Glen: thinking about IMAP drafts.  would IMAP individual subs.  shouldn't they be put into IMAPEXT or LEMONADE.  What about LDAP related?
Ted: why would AD sponsored be preferable be to APPSWG.
Glen: makes sense to put extra docs that are focused on a particular topic are better in a topci related wg.
Ted: that relates to how we manage charters.
Glen: yes
Dave C: this isn't just about IMAP, sometimes it is an end-run is a good thing sometimes a bad thing.  APPSWG can also be a pocket veto.
Kurt: SASL gets the review work but doesn't do that work.  Same should be for IMAP.
Ted: does that make sense to people that APPSWG does review.  moves it away from the ADs submissions.
Kurt: how does this work with the directorates?
Ted: what is your idea
Kurt: I prefer APPSWG.
Cullen: no downside.  help close down existing working groups
Randy G.: I see the appeal being it offloads work from the AD and makes individual sub of review more transparent.  We don't want to dilute focus of working group.  Just review of the doc by APPSWG is nebulous.
Lisa: the thing about BoFs is that they get new people involved.  Wouldn't like to see fewer BoFs because things are streamlined into APPSWG.  What specific drafts if formed today.
Ted: we didn't compile a list
??: new topic broadcast with abstract to broader community
??: what is the review time? 4 week, 2 week?  directorate vs wg is ADs looking for more people to help twist arms.  Where are the TSV and APPS going next?
Allson: TSVWG has been good about keeping the individuals to a low
Aron Faulk: the problem with TSVWG is that it only give 10 minutes to very broad subjects.  Because of the heavy demand, it has created more cross-review.  Two meetings at the IETF?  The wg stuff gets pushed out for new stuff.
Allison: TSV hasn't had two meetings because of lack of overhead.  RAI now gives us the overhead.
Ted: we have used apps open area for mini-bofs.  Maybe schedule two meeting back to back but have a clear transition.
Allison: Aaron says have lots more BoFs.  It is important to apply a careful filter.  Dont' be attracted by lots of open space to think just take on any work.
Dean: we found that SIPPING filtered a lot of stuff for SIP. This is about getting review concentration on the documents.  Not all work needs to be done.  Some drafts need to die.  There will still be AD oversight.
Ted: much larger group of people act as the filter
John K: this is worth trying experimentally.  larger groups have much more trouble saying no. need low cost appeals procedure that is efficient because this could get out of control fast.  Informational individual submissions vs. standards track?
Ted: the rfc editor process would be separate from this.
John K. 2821bis can go to this wg
Kurt: concerned about this wg being a filter.  good for review though.  but the consensus of this wg should be required to get docs to the IESG.
Allison: the notion of AD sponsored docs is implicit in 2026 but explicit in 3922.  IETF process says that it can be taken to an AD.  Blocking them by force to the wg maybe go against procedure.
James Polk: we should not mandate that every document go through the IESG to become a document.
Allison: that is not the issue.  the issue is going through an area-wide group vs using the ADs.
James P: TSVWG works well, so apps can probably do it.  But I wouldn't want to be chair of a group that does not have the AD on it.
Ted: there are a variety ways of making the work besides one of the AD being a chair such as area advisor.  If it were just the ADs, then it wouldn't be worth running.  There are scaling problems with just using the ADs.
Allison: we are going to the experiment.  watch our experiment.
Leslie D: any working group has a charter, so its charter could be tailored to specify the purpose of the review and we need to have a draft charter on the table.
Dave C: agree with Leslie. the charter needs to say what is forced into the working group vs what seeks the working group.
Ted: asks for interest by hands.  enough people for a chartering discussion

New topics:
Dave C: thanks to Scott for being AD
(room claps)
Scott: thanks to Allison as well
(room claps)

Scott closes meeting

Slides

Joint Applications-Transport Area Meeting
RAI Area Split and Formation