1.2 IETF Progress Report

The IESG and IETF have been quite active since the March IETF Meeting in Los Angeles: 82 Protocol Actions taken, 64 Last Calls issued, 606 Internet-Drafts announced, and 74 RFCs published.

Between the IETF meetings in Los Angeles and Chicago, six working groups were created:

IP Over Fibre Channel (ipfc)
Multicast-Address Allocation (malloc)
ADSL MIB (adslmib)
Internet Open Trading Protocol (trade)
Protocol Independent Multicast (pim)
Network File System Version 4 (nfsv4)
and four working groups concluded:
Guide for Internet Standards Writers (stdguide)
Procedures for Internet/Enterprise Renumbering (pier)
Receipt Notifications for Internet Mail (receipt)
TCP Large Windows (tcplw)

Seventy-four RFCs have been published since the Los Angeles IETF meeting in March 1998:

RFC2225

PS

Classical IP and ARP over ATM

RFC2300

S

INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS

RFC2309

I

Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet

RFC2310

E

The Safe Response Header Field

RFC2316

I

Report of the IAB Security Architecture Workshop

RFC2319

I

Ukrainian Character Set KOI8-U

RFC2320

PS

Definitions of Managed Objects for Classical IP and ARP Over ATM Using SMIv2 (IPOA-MIB)

RFC2326

PS

Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

RFC2327

PS

SDP: Session Description Protocol

RFC2328

S

OSPF Version 2

RFC2329

I

OSPF Standardization Report

RFC2330

I

Framework for IP Performance Metrics

RFC2331

PS

ATM Signalling Support for IP over ATM - UNI Signalling 4.0 Update

RFC2332

PS

NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)

RFC2333

PS

NHRP Protocol Applicability Statement

RFC2334

PS

Server Cache Synchronization Protocol (SCSP)

RFC2335

PS

A Distributed NHRP Service Using SCSP

RFC2336

I

Classical IP to NHRP Transition

RFC2337

E

Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over ATM using Sparse Mode PIM

RFC2338

PS

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol

RFC2339

I

An agreement between the Internet Society, the IETF and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the matter of NFS V.4 protocols

RFC2340

I

Nortel's Virtual Network Switching (VNS) Overview

RFC2341

I

Cisco Layer Two Forwarding (Protocol) 'L2F'

RFC2342

PS

IMAP4 Namespace

RFC2343

E

RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG

RFC2344

PS

Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP

RFC2345

E

Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval

RFC2346

I

Making Postscript and PDF International

RFC2347

DS

TFTP Option Extension

RFC2348

DS

TFTP Blocksize Option

RFC2349

DS

TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options

RFC2350

BCP

Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response

RFC2351

I

Mapping of Airline Reservation, Ticketing, and Messaging Traffic over IP

RFC2352

I

A Convention For Using Legal Names as Domain Names

RFC2353

I

APPN/HPR in IP Networks APPN Implementers' Workshop Closed Pages Document

RFC2354

I

Options for Repair of Streaming Media

RFC2355

DS

TN3270 Enhancements

RFC2356

I

Sun's SKIP Firewall Traversal for Mobile IP

RFC2357

I

IETF Criteria For Evaluating Reliable Multicast Transport and Application Protocols

RFC2358

PS

Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types

RFC2359

PS

IMAP4 UIDPLUS extension

RFC2360

BCP

Guide for Internet Standards Writers

RFC2361

I

WAVE and AVI Codec Registries

RFC2362

E

Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification

RFC2363

PS

PPP Over FUNI

RFC2364

PS

PPP over AAL5

RFC2365

BCP

Administratively Scoped IP Multicast

RFC2366

PS

Definitions of Managed Objects for Multicast over UNI 3.0/3.1 based ATM Networks

RFC2367

I

PF_KEY Key Management API, Version 2

RFC2368

PS

The mailto URL scheme

RFC2369

PS

The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields

RFC2370

PS

The OSPF Opaque LSA Option

RFC2371

PS

Transaction Internet Protocol Version 3.0

RFC2372

I

Transaction Internet Protocol - Requirements and Supplemental Information

RFC2373

PS

IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture

RFC2374

PS

An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format

RFC2375

I

IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments

RFC2376

I

XML Media Types

RFC2379

BCP

RSVP over ATM Implementation Guidelines

RFC2380

PS

RSVP over ATM Implementation Requirements

RFC2381

PS

Interoperation of Controlled-Load Service and Guaranteed Service with ATM

RFC2382

I

A Framework for Integrated Services and RSVP over ATM

RFC2383

I

ST2+ over ATM Protocol Specification - UNI 3.1 Version

RFC2384

PS

POP URL Scheme

RFC2385

PS

Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option

RFC2386

I

A Framework for QoS-based Routing in the Internet

RFC2387

PS

The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type

RFC2388

PS

Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data

RFC2389

PS

Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol

RFC2391

I

Load Sharing using IP Network Address Translation (LSNAT)

RFC2392

PS

Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators

RFC2396

DS

Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax

RFC2397

PS

The 'data' URL scheme

RFC2398

I

Some Testing Tools for TCP Implementors