RFC2799 - Request for Comments Summary RFCNumbers 2700-2799

Network Working Group S. Ginoza

Request for Comments: 2799 ISI

Category: Informational September 2000

Request for Comments Summary

RFCNumbers 2700-2799

Status of This Memo

This RFCis a slightly annotated list of the 100 RFCs from RFC2700

through RFCs 2799. This is a status report on these RFCs. This memo

provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify

an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is

unlimited.

Note

Many RFCs, but not all, are Proposed Standards, Draft Standards, or

Standards. Since the status of these RFCs may change during the

standards processing, we note here only that they are on the

standards track. Please see the latest edition of "Internet Official

Protocol Standards" for the current state and status of these RFCs.

In the following, RFCs on the standards track are marked [STANDARDS-

TRACK].

RFCAuthor Date Title

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2799 Ginoza Request for Comments Summary

This memo.

2798 Smith Apr 2000 Definition of the

inetOrgPerson LDAP Object

Class

We define a new object class called inetOrgPerson for use in LDAP and

X.500 Directory services that extends the X.521 standard

organizationalPerson class to meet these needs. This memo provides

information for the Internet community.

2797 Myers Apr 2000 Certificate Management

Messages over CMS

This document defines a Certificate Management protocol using CMS (CMC).

[STANDARDS TRACK]

2796 Bates Apr 2000 BGP Route Reflection - An

Alternative to Full Mesh IBGP

This document describes the use and design of a method known as "Route

Reflection" to alleviate the the need for "full mesh" IBGP. [STANDARDS

TRACK]

2795 Christey Mar 2000 The Infinite Monkey Protocol

Suite (IMPS)

This memo describes a protocol suite which supports an infinite number

of monkeys that sit at an infinite number of typewriters in order to

determine when they have either prodUCed the entire works of William

Shakespeare or a good television show. This memo provides information

for the Internet community.

2794 Calhoun Mar 2000 Mobile IP Network Access

Identifier Extension for IPv4

Our proposal defines a way for the mobile node to identify itself, by

including the NAI along with the Mobile IP Registration Request. This

memo also updates RFC2290 which specifies the Mobile-IPv4 Configuration

option for IPCP, by allowing the Mobile Node's Home Address field of

this option to be zero. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2793 Hellstrom May 2000 RTP Payload for Text

Conversation

This memo describes how to carry text conversation session contents in

RTP packets. Text conversation session contents are specified in ITU-T

Recommendation T.140. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2792 Blaze Mar 2000 DSA and RSA Key and Signature

Encoding for the KeyNote Trust

Management System

This memo describes RSA and DSA key and signature encoding, and binary

key encoding for version 2 of the KeyNote trust-management system. This

memo provides information for the Internet community.

2791 Yu Jul 2000 Scalable Routing Design

Principles

This document identifies major factors affecting routing scalability as

well as basic principles of designing scalable routing for large

networks. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

2790 Waldbusser Mar 2000 Host Resources MIB

This memo obsoletes RFC1514, the "Host Resources MIB". This memo

extends that specification by clarifying changes based on implementation

and deployment eXPerience and documenting the Host Resources MIB in

SMIv2 format while remaining semantically identical to the existing

SMIv1-based MIB. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2789 Freed Mar 2000 Mail Monitoring MIB

This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for

use with network management protocols in the Internet community.

Specifically, this memo extends the basic Network Services Monitoring

MIB defined in RFC2788 [16] to allow monitoring of Message Transfer

Agents (MTAs). It may also be used to monitor MTA components within

gateways. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2788 Freed Mar 2000 Network Services Monitoring

MIB

This document defines a MIB which contains the elements common to the

monitoring of any network service application. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2787 Jewell Mar 2000 Definitions of Managed Objects

for the Virtual Router

Redundancy Protocol

This specification defines an extension to the Management Information

Base (MIB) for use with SNMP-based network management. In particular,

it defines objects for configuring, monitoring, and controlling routers

that employ the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). [STANDARDS

TRACK]

2786 St. Johns Mar 2000 Diffie-Helman USM Key

Management Information

Base and Textual Convention

This memo defines an experimental portion of the Management Information

Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols the Internet

community. In particular, it defines a textual convention for doing

Diffie-Helman key agreement key exchanges an set of objects which extend

the usmUserTable to permit the use of DH key exchange in addition to the

key change method. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the

Internet community.

2785 Zuccherato Mar 2000 Methods for Avoiding the

"Small-Subgroup" Attacks on

the Diffie-Hellman Key

Agreement Method for S/MIME

This document will describe the situations relevant to implementations

of S/MIME version 3 in which protection is necessary and the methods

that can be used to prevent these attacks. This memo provides

information for the Internet community.

2784 Farinacci Mar 2000 Generic Routing Encapsulation

(GRE)

This document specifies a protocol for encapsulation of an arbitrary

network layer protocol over another arbitrary network layer protocol.

[STANDARDS TRACK]

2783 Mogul Mar 2000 Pulse-Per-Second API for

UNIX-like Operating Systems,

Version 1.0

RFC1589 did not define an API for managing the PPS facility, leaving

implementors without a portable means for using PPS sources. This

document specifies such an API. This memo provides information for the

Internet community.

2782 Gulbrandsen Feb 2000 A DNS RR for specifying the

location of services (DNS SRV)

This document describes a DNS RR which specifies the location of the

server(s) for a specific protocol and domain. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2781 Hoffman Feb 2000 UTF-16, an encoding of ISO

10646

This document describes the UTF-16 encoding of Unicode/ISO-10646,

addresses the issues of serializing UTF-16 as an octet stream for

transmission over the Internet, discusses MIME charset naming as

described in [CHARSET-REG], and contains the registration for three MIME

charset parameter values: UTF-16BE (big-endian), UTF-16LE (little-

endian), and UTF-16. This memo provides information for the Internet

community.

2780 Bradner Mar 2000 IANA Allocation Guidelines For

Values In the Internet

Protocol and Related Headers

This memo provides guidance for the IANA to use in assigning parameters

for fields in the IPv4, IPv6, ICMP, UDP and TCP protocol headers. This

document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet

Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.

2779 Day Feb 2000 Instant Messaging / Presence

Protocol Requirements

This document defines a minimal set of requirements that IMPP must meet.

This memo provides information for the Internet community.

2778 Day Feb 2000 A Model for Presence and

Instant Messaging

This document defines an abstract model for a presence and instant

messaging system. It defines the various entities involved, defines

terminology, and outlines the services provided by the system. This

memo provides information for the Internet community.

2777 Eastlake Feb 2000 Publicly Verifiable Nomcom

Random Selection

This document describes a method for making random selections in such a

way that the unbiased nature of the choice is publicly verifiable. This

memo provides information for the Internet community.

2776 Handley Feb 2000 Multicast-Scope Zone

Announcement Protocol (MZAP)

This document defines a protocol, the Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement

Protocol (MZAP), for discovering the multicast administrative scope

zones that are relevant at a particular location. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2775 Carpenter Feb 2000 Internet Transparency

This document describes the current state of the Internet from the

architectural viewpoint, concentrating on issues of end-to-end

connectivity and transparency.

2774 Nielsen Feb 2000 An HTTP Extension Framework

This document describes a generic extension mechanism for HTTP, which is

designed to address the tension between private agreement and public

specification and to accommodate extension of applications using HTTP

clients, servers, and proxies. This memo defines an Experimental

Protocol for the Internet community.

2773 Housley Feb 2000 Encryption using KEA and

SKIPJACK

This document defines a method to encrypt a file transfer using the FTP

specification STD 9, RFC959, "File Transfer Protocol (FTP)", (October

1985) and RFC2228, "FTP Security Extensions" (October 1997). This memo

defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

2772 Rockell Feb 2000 6Bone Backbone Routing

Guidelines

This document provides a set of guidelines for all 6bone routing

equipment operators to use as a reference for efficient and stable

deployment of 6bone routing systems. This memo provides information for

the Internet community.

2771 Finlayson Feb 2000 An Abstract API for Multicast

Address Allocation

This document describes the "abstract service interface" for the dynamic

multicast address allocation service, as seen by applications. This

memo provides information for the Internet community.

2770 Meyer Feb 2000 GLOP Addressing in 233/8

This describes an experimental policy for use of the class D address

space using 233/8 as the experimental statically assigned subset of the

class D address space. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for

the Internet community.

2769 Villamizar Feb 2000 Routing Policy System

Replication

This document addresses the need to distribute data over multiple

repositories and delegate authority for data subsets to other

repositories without compromising the authorization model established in

Routing Policy System Security RFC. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2768 Aiken Feb 2000 Network Policy and Services:

A Report of a Workshop on

Middleware

An ad hoc middleware workshop was held at the International Center for

Advanced Internet Research in December 1998. The need for a more

organized framework for middleware R&D was recognized, and a list of

specific topics needing further work was identified. This memo provides

information for the Internet community.

2767 Tsuchiya Feb 2000 Dual Stack Hosts using the

"Bump-In-the-Stack" Technique

(BIS)

This memo proposes a mechanism of dual stack hosts using the technique

called "Bump-in-the-Stack" in the IP security area. This memo provides

information for the Internet community.

2766 Tsirtsis Feb 2000 Network Address Translation -

Protocol Translation (NAT-PT)

This document specifies an IPv4-to-IPv6 transition mechanism, in

addition to those already specified. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2765 Nordmark Feb 2000 Stateless IP/ICMP Translation

Algorithm (SIIT)

This document specifies a transition mechanism algorithm in addition to

the mechanisms already specified. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2764 Gleeson Feb 2000 A Framework for IP Based

Virtual Private Networks

This document describes a framework for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

running across IP backbones. This memo provides information for the

Internet community.

2763 Shen Feb 2000 Dynamic Hostname Exchange

Mechanism for IS-IS

This document defines a new TLV which allows the IS-IS routers to flood

their name to system ID mapping information across the IS-IS network.

This memo provides information for the Internet community.

2762 Rosenberg Feb 2000 Sampling of the Group

Membership in RTP

This document discusses mechanisms for sampling of this group membership

table in order to reduce the memory requirements. This memo defines an

Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

2761 Dunn Feb 2000 Terminology for ATM

Benchmarking

This memo discusses and defines terms associated with performance

benchmarking tests and the results of these tests in the context of

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) based switching devices. This memo

provides information for the Internet community.

2760 Allman Feb 2000 Ongoing TCP Research Related

to Satellites

This document outlines possible TCP enhancements that may allow TCP to

better utilize the available bandwidth provided by networks containing

satellite links. This memo provides information for the Internet

community.

2759 Zorn Jan 2000 Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions,

Version 2

This document describes version two of Microsoft's PPP CHAP dialect

(MS-CHAP-V2). MS-CHAP-V2 is similar to, but incompatible with, MS-CHAP

version one (MS-CHAP-V1). This memo provides information for the

Internet community.

2758 White Feb 2000 Definitions of Managed Objects

for Service Level Agreements

Performance Monitoring

This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) for performance

monitoring of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) defined via policy

definitions. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the

Internet community.

2757 Montenegro Jan 2000 Long Thin Networks

Our goal is to identify a TCP that works for all users, including users

of long thin networks. This memo provides information for the Internet

community.

2756 Vixie Jan 2000 Hyper Text Caching Protocol

(HTCP/0.0)

This document describes HTCP, a protocol for discovering HTTP caches and

cached data, managing sets of HTTP caches, and monitoring cache

activity. This is an experimental protocol, one among several proposals

to perform these functions. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol

for the Internet community.

2755 Chiu Jan 2000 Security Negotiation for

WebNFS

This document describes a protocol for a WebNFS client (RFC2054) to

negotiate the desired security mechanism with a WebNFS server (RFC2055)

before the WebNFS client falls back to the MOUNT v3 protocol (RFC1813).

This document is provided so that people can write compatible

implementations. This memo provides information for the Internet

community.

2754 Alaettinoglu Jan 2000 RPS IANA Issues

RPS Security requires certain RPSL objects in the IRR to be

hierarchically delegated. The set of objects that are at the root of

this hierarchy needs to be created and digitally signed by IANA. This

paper presents these seed objects and lists operations required from

IANA. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

2753 Yavatkar Jan 2000 A Framework for Policy-based

Admission Control

This document is concerned with specifying a framework for providing

policy-based control over admission control decisions. This memo

provides information for the Internet community.

2752 Yadav Jan 2000 Identity Representation for

RSVP

This document describes the representation of identity information in

POLICY_DATA object for supporting policy based admission control in

RSVP. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2751 Herzog Jan 2000 Signaled Preemption Priority

Policy Element

This document describes a preemption priority policy element for use by

signaled policy based admission protocols (such as RSVP and COPS).

[STANDARDS TRACK]

2750 Herzog Jan 2000 RSVP Extensions for Policy

Control

This memo presents a set of extensions for supporting generic policy

based admission control in RSVP. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2749 Herzog Jan 2000 COPS usage for RSVP

This document describes usage directives for supporting COPS policy

services in RSVP environments. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2748 Durham Jan 2000 The COPS (Common Open Policy

Service) Protocol

This document describes a simple client/server model for supporting

policy control over QoS signaling protocols. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2747 Baker Jan 2000 RSVP Cryptographic

Authentication

This document describes the format and use of RSVP's INTEGRITY object to

provide hop-by-hop integrity and authentication of RSVP messages.

[STANDARDS TRACK]

2746 Terzis Jan 2000 RSVP Operation Over IP Tunnels

This document describes an approach for providing RSVP protocol services

over IP tunnels. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2745 Terzis Jan 2000 RSVP Diagnostic Messages

This document specifies the RSVP diagnostic facility, which allows a

user to collect information about the RSVP state along a path.

[STANDARDS TRACK]

2744 Wray Jan 2000 Generic Security Service API

Version 2 : C-bindings

This document specifies C language bindings for Version 2, Update 1 of

the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API),

which is described at a language-independent conceptual level in RFC

2743. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2743 Linn Jan 2000 Generic Security Service

Application Program Interface

Version 2, Update 1

This memo obsoletes [RFC-2078], making specific, incremental changes in

response to implementation experience and liaison requests. It is

intended, therefore, that this memo or a successor version thereto will

become the basis for subsequent progression of the GSS-API specification

on the standards track. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2742 Heintz Jan 2000 Definitions of Managed Objects

for Extensible SNMP Agents

This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for

use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In

particular, it describes objects managing SNMP agents that use the Agent

Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2741 Daniele Jan 2000 Agent Extensibility (AgentX)

Protocol Version 1

This memo defines a standardized framework for extensible SNMP agents.

[STANDARDS TRACK]

2740 Coltun Dec 1999 OSPF for IPv6

This document describes the modifications to OSPF to support version 6

of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). [STANDARDS TRACK]

2739 Small Jan 2000 Calendar Attributes for vCard

and LDAP

This memo defines three mechanisms for oBTaining a URI to a user's

calendar and free/busy time. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2738 Klyne Dec 1999 Corrections to "A Syntax for

Describing Media Feature Sets"

In RFC2533, "A Syntax for Describing Media Feature Sets", an expression

format is presented for describing media feature capabilities using

simple media feature tags. This memo contains two corrections to that

specification: one fixes an error in the formal syntax specification,

and the other fixes an error in the rules for reducing feature

comparison predicates. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2737 McCloghrie Dec 1999 Entity MIB (Version 2)

This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (M for

use with network management protocols in the Internet communi In

particular, it describes managed objects used for managing multiple

logical and physical entities managed by a single SNMP agent.

[STANDARDS TRACK]

2736 Handley Dec 1999 Guidelines for Writers of RTP

Payload Format Specifications

This document provides general guidelines aimed at assisting the authors

of RTP Payload Format specifications in deciding on good formats. This

document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet

Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.

2735 Fox Dec 1999 NHRP Support for Virtual

Private Networks

The NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) is used to determine the

NBMA subnetwork addresses of the "NBMA next hop" towards a public

internetworking layer address. This document describes the enhancements

necessary to enable NHRP to perform the same function for private

internetworking layer addresses available within the framework of a

Virtual Private Network (VPN) service on a shared NBMA network.

[STANDARDS TRACK]

2734 Johansson Dec 1999 IPv4 over IEEE 1394

This document specifies how to use IEEE Std 1394-1995, Standard for a

High Performance Serial Bus (and its supplements), for the transport of

Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) datagrams; it defines the necessary

methods, data structures and codes for that purpose. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2733 Rosenberg Dec 1999 An RTP Payload Format for

Generic Forward Error

Correction

This document specifies a payload format for generic forward error

correction of media encapsulated in RTP. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2732 Hinden Dec 1999 Format for Literal IPv6

Addresses in URL's

This document defines the format for literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's for

implementation in World Wide Web browsers. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2731 Kunze Dec 1999 Encoding Dublin Core Metadata

in Html

The Dublin Core is a small set of metadata elements for describing

information resources. This document explains how these elements are

expressed using the META and LINK tags of HTML. This memo provides

information for the Internet community.

2730 Hanna Dec 1999 Multicast Address Dynamic

Client Allocation Protocol

(MADCAP)

This document defines a protocol, Multicast Address Dynamic Client

Allocation Protocol (MADCAP), that allows hosts to request multicast

addresses from multicast address allocation servers. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2729 Bagnall Dec 1999 Taxonomy of Communication

Requirements for Large-scale

Multicast Applications

The intention of this memo is to define a classification system for the

communication requirements of any large-scale multicast application

(LSMA). This memo provides information for the Internet community.

2728 Panabaker Nov 1999 The Transmission of IP Over

the Vertical Blanking Interval

of a Television Signal

This document describes a method for broadcasting IP data in a

unidirectional manner using the vertical blanking interval of television

signals. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2727 Galvin Feb 2000 IAB and IESG Selection,

Confirmation, and Recall

Process: Operation of the

Nominating and Recall

Committees

The process by which the members of the IAB and IESG are selected,

confirmed, and recalled is specified. This document is a self-

consistent, organized compilation of the process as it was known at the

time of publication. This document specifies an Internet Best Current

Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and

suggestions for improvements.

2726 Zsako Dec 1999 PGP Authentication for RIPE

Database Updates

This document presents the proposal for a stronger authentication method

of the updates of the RIPE database based on digital signatures.

[STANDARDS TRACK]

2725 Villamizar Dec 1999 Routing Policy System Security

The implementation and deployment of a routing policy system must

maintain some degree of integrity to be of any operational use. This

document addresses the need to assure integrity of the data by providing

an authentication and authorization model. [STANDARDS TRACK]

2724 Handelman Oct 1999 RTFM: New Attributes for

Traffic Flow Measurement

This document discusses RTFM flows and the attributes which they can

have, so as to provide a logical framework for extending the

architecture by adding new attributes. This memo defines an

Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

2723 Brownlee Oct 1999 SRL: A Language for Describing

Traffic Flows and Specifying

Actions for Flow Groups

This document describes a language for specifying rulesets, i.e.

configuration files which may be loaded into a traffic flow meter so as

to specify which traffic flows are measured by the meter, and the

information it will store for each flow. This memo provides information

for the Internet community.

2722 Brownlee Oct 1999 Traffic Flow Measurement:

Architecture

This document provides a general framework for describing network

traffic flows, presents an architecture for traffic flow measurement and

reporting, discusses how this relates to an overall network traffic flow

architecture and indicates how it can be used within the Internet. This

memo provides information for the Internet community.

2721 Brownlee Oct 1999 RTFM: Applicability Statement

This document provides an overview covering all ASPects of Realtime

Traffic Flow Measurement, including its area of applicability and its

limitations. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

2720 Brownlee Oct 1999 Traffic Flow Measurement:

Meter MIB

This document defines a Management Information Base (MIB) for use in

controlling an RTFM Traffic Meter, in particular for specifying the

flows to be measured. It also provides an efficient mechanism for

retrieving flow data from the meter using SNMP. Security issues

concerning the operation of traffic meters are summarised. [STANDARDS

TRACK]

2719 Ong Oct 1999 Framework Architecture for

Signaling Transport

This document defines an architecture framework and functional

requirements for transport of signaling information over IP. This memo

provides information for the Internet community.

2718 Masinter Nov 1999 Guidelines for new URL Schemes

This document provides guidelines for the definition of new URL schemes.

This memo provides information for the Internet community.

2717 Petke Nov 1999 Registration Procedures for

URL Scheme Names

This document defines the process by which new URL scheme names are

registered. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices

for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for

improvements.

2716 Aboba Oct 1999 PPP EAP TLS Authentication

Protocol

The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a standard method for

transporting multi-protocol datagrams over point-to-point links.The

Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is a PPP extension that

provides support for additional authentication methods within PPP. This

memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

2715 Thaler Oct 1999 Interoperability Rules for

Multicast Routing Protocols

The rules described in this document will allow efficient interoperation

among multiple independent multicast routing domains. This memo

provides information for the Internet community.

2714 Ryan Oct 1999 Schema for Representing CORBA

Object References in an LDAP