1.2 IETF Progress Report

The IESG and IETF have been quite active since the March IETF Meeting in Adelaide, Australia: 111 Protocol and Document Actions, 52 Last Calls issued, 975 Internet-Drafts processed (500 in the three weeks prior to the meeting), and 86 RFCs published.

Between the IETF meetings in Adelaide and Pittsburgh, seven working groups were created:

Internet Message Access Protocol Extension (imapext)

Voice Profile for Internet Mail (vpim)

Security Issues in Network Event Logging (syslog)

Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (beep)

ICMP Traceback (itrace)

Kerberos WG (krb-wg)

Source-Specific Multicast (ssm)

and six working groups concluded:

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (radius)

Internetworking Over NBMA (ion)

IP Over IEEE 1394 (ip1394)

Printer MIB (printmib)

DAV Searching and Locating (dasl)

Mail and Directory Management (madman)

Additionally, 86 RFC's (42 of which were standards track) have been published since the Adelaide IETF meeting in March, 2000:

RFC2499

I

Request for Comments Summary (2400-2499)

RFC2699

I

Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2600-2699

RFC2787

PS

Definitions of Managed Objects for the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol using SNMPv2

RFC2788

PS

Network Services Monitoring MIB

RFC2789

PS

Mail Monitoring MIB

RFC2790

DS

Host Resources MIB

RFC2791

I

Scalable Routing Design Principles

RFC2793

PS

RTP Payload for Text Conversation

RFC2794

PS

Mobile IP Network Access Identifier Extension for IPv4

RFC2795

I

The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)

RFC2796

PS

BGP Route Reflection An alternative to full mesh IBGP

RFC2797

PS

Certificate Management Messages over CMS

RFC2798

I

Definition of the inetOrgPerson LDAP Object Class

RFC2801

I

Internet Open Trading Protocol - IOTP Version 1.0

RFC2802

I

Digital Signatures for the 1.0 Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP)

RFC2803

I

Digest Values for DOM (DOMHASH)

RFC2804

I

IETF Policy on Wiretapping

RFC2805

I

Media Gateway Control Protocol Architecture and Requirements

RFC2806

PS

URLs for Telephone Calls

RFC2807

I

XML-Signature Requirements

RFC2808

I

The SecurID(r) SASL Mechanism

RFC2809

I

Implementation of L2TP Compulsory Tunneling via RADIUS

RFC2810

I

Internet Relay Chat: Architecture

RFC2811

I

Internet Relay Chat: Channel Management

RFC2812

I

Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol

RFC2813

I

Internet Relay Chat: Server Protocol

RFC2814

PS

SBM (Subnet Bandwidth Manager): A Protocol for RSVP-based Admission Control over IEEE 802-style networks

RFC2815

PS

Integrated Service Mappings on IEEE 802 Networks

RFC2816

I

A Framework for Providing Integrated Services Over Shared and Switched IEEE 802 LAN Technologies

RFC2817

PS

Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1

RFC2818

I

HTTP Over TLS

RFC2819

S

Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base

RFC2820

I

Access Control Requirements for LDAP

RFC2823

E

PPP over Simple Data Link (SDL) using SONET/SDH with ATM-like framing

RFC2824

I

Call Processing Language Framework and Requirements

RFC2825

I

A Tangled Web:issues of I18N, domain names, and the other Internet protocols

RFC2826

I

IAB Technical Comment on the Unique DNS Root

RFC2827

BCP

Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing

RFC2828

I

Interne Security Glossary

RFC2829

PS

Authentication Methods for LDAP

RFC2830

PS

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension for Transport Layer Security

RFC2831

PS

Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism

RFC2832

I

NSI Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0

RFC2833

PS

RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and Telephony Signals

RFC2834

PS

ARP and IP Broadcast over HIPPI-800

RFC2835

PS

IP and ARP over HIPPI-6400 (GSN)

RFC2836

PS

Per Hop Behavior Identification Codes

RFC2837

PS

Definitions of Managed Objects for the Fabric Element in Fibre Channel Standard

RFC2838

I

Uniform Resource Identifiers for Television Broadcasts

RFC2839

I

INTERNET KERMIT SERVICE

RFC2840

I

TELNET KERMIT OPTION

RFC2842

S

Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4

RFC2843

I

Proxy PAR

RFC2844

E

OSPF over ATM and Proxy PAR

RFC2845

S

Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)

RFC2846

PS

GSTN address element extensions in e-mail services

RFC2847

PS

LIPKEY - A Low Infrastructure Public Key Mechanism Using SPKM

RFC2848

PS

The PINT Service Protocol:Extensions to SIP and SDP for IP Access to Telephone Call Services

RFC2849

PS

The LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification

RFC2850

B

Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)

RFC2851

PS

Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses

RFC2852

PS

Deliver By SMTP Service Extension

RFC2853

PS

Generic Security Service API Version 2 : Java bindings

RFC2854

I

The 'text/html' Media Type

RFC2855

PS

DHCP on IEEE 1394

RFC2856

PS

Textual Conventions for Additional High Capacity Data Types

RFC2857

PS

The Use of HMAC-RIPEMD-160-96 within ESP and AH

RFC2858

PS

Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4

RFC2859

E

A Time Sliding Window Three Colour Marker (TSWTCM)

RFC2860

I

Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Technical Work of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

RFC2861

E

TCP Congestion Window Validation

RFC2862

PS

RTP Payload Format for Real-Time Pointers

RFC2863

DS

The Interfaces Group MIB

RFC2864

PS

The Inverted Stack Table Extension to the Interfaces Group MIB

RFC2865

DS

Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)

RFC2866

I

RADIUS Accounting

RFC2867

I

RADIUS Accounting Modifications for Tunnel Protocol Support

RFC2868

I

RADIUS Attributes for Tunnel Protocol Support

RFC2869

I

RADIUS Extensions

RFC287

B

Root Name Server Operational Requirements

RFC2871

I

A Framework for a Gateway Location Protocol

RFC2872

PS

Application and Sub Application Identity Policy Element for Use with RSVP

RFC2874

PS

DNS Extensions to Support IPv6 Address Aggregation and Renumbering

RFC2875

PS

Diffie-Hellman Proof-of-Possession Algorithms

RFC2876

I

Use of the KEA and SKIPJACK Algorithms in CMS

RFC2877

I

5250 Telnet Enhancements

RFC2878

PS

PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP)