[Chapter-delegates] "Rough Guide" to IETF74 meetings
Anne Lord
lord at isoc.org
Mon Mar 16 16:06:07 PDT 2009
Dear Colleagues,
Following on our tradition from the last IETF, the Standards &
Technology department has put together the following "Rough Guide" to
IETF74 meetings touching on topics of interest. Please feel free to
share it with any of your members, or any one else you think might
make use of it. We hope it is of interest and helpful. Thanks to
Leslie and her team for producing this.
Best wishes,
Anne
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A Rough Guide to ISOC's IETF74 Hot Topics
=========================================
ISOC's Standards & Technology department offers the following "rough
guide" to hot topics being discussed at the 74th IETF meeting in San
Francisco (March 22-27 2009). Generally, these topics fall into the
following categories:
IPv4/IPv6 Coexistence
Securing Internet Infrastructure
Trust and Identity
Bandwidth Management
IETF Structure and Process
Remote participation in all meetings will be possible -- see specific
meetings listed on http://tools.ietf.org/agenda/74/ for access to
audio stream and jabber rooms. That page also includes links to
helpful tarballs of documents being discussed at meetings, etc.
For the full IETF meeting plan and agenda, and to check for any
changes in times and locations, see http://www.ietf.org/meetings/74/
IPv4/IPv6 Coexistence
---------------------
As there is increasing momentum to deploy IPv6, as well as recognition
that IPv4 and IPv6 network realities must coexist, work is being done
to develop specifications to allow interoperable behaviour between
networked realities.
6AI BOF: IPv6 Address Independence BOF
This meeting addresses NATs for IPv6, primarily for address
independence for enterprises.
Currently scheduled:
Thursday March 26 2009, 09h00-11h30
BOF Agenda: [Not on official IETF agenda page yet]
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/nat66/current/msg00025.html
BEHAVE WG: Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance WG
BEHAVE has a broader charter, but the specific point of interest to
this topic is the IPv4 to IPv6 translation (and vice-versa) that is
chartered here. There are several drafts on the agenda that are
pertinent. (See the agenda page for a complete list).
Currently scheduled:
Tuesday March 24 2009, 09h00-11h30
Wednesday March 25 2009, 09h00-11h30
WG Agenda: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/behave.html
WG webpage: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/behave-charter.html
SOFTWIRE: Softwires WG
While much of the work of this WG has been specifying discovery,
encapsulation, and control for connecting IPv4 clouds over IPv6 and
vice-versa, it has picked up the work item to define DS-lite ("dual
stack" lite). This pertains to IPv6 and continued existence of IPv4
following IPv4 address completion. Some of the other address sharing
proposals may be being merged with existing DS-lite proposals. What
we are hoping for here is an optimal an address sharing solution as we
can envisage combining IPv6 deployment and a reasonable level of end
user control.
Currently scheduled:
Friday March 27 2009, 09h00-11h30
WG Agenda: [Not available]
WG webpage: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/softwire-charter.html
SHARA BOF: Sharing of an IPv4 Address BOF
This BOF is concerned with address sharing and all the various
proposals for IPv4 address-sharing that have emerged recently. Randy
Bush’s overview of the many address-sharing proposals that were
around led to this BOF to focus on the topic specifically. This is
not a working group forming BOF. ISOC's Mat ford will have some agenda
time to talk about draft-ford-shared-addressing-issues-00.txt .
Currently scheduled:
Monday March 23 2009, 09h00-11h30
BOF Agenda: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/shara.txt
Securing the Internet's Infrastructure
--------------------------------------
A number of discussions are underway to improve the overall security
of the Internet's infrastructure. A recent headlining technology is
DNSSEC. There are other, less obvious, critical pieces under
discussion for the routing infrastructure, as well.
SAVI WG: Source Address Validation Improvements
This WG "considers only solutions implemented on systems located on
the same IP link as a to-be-verified node... running in routers of
layer-3-aware ethernet bridges" Drafts include a proposal for SeND
SAVI and requirements.
Currently scheduled:
Monday March 23 2009, 17h40-19h40
WG agenda: not up yet
WG webpage: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/savi-charter.html
SIDR WG: Secure Inter-Domain Routing WG
Focus is on the authorization of an originating AS to advertise an
address prefix. The technical specification under consideration is
for certificates for a Resource PKI (RPKI) (The most relevant
"resources" are address prefixes and AS numbers.) Outside the WG, we
see evidence that implementation is underway. The (different) Routing
Protocol Security (RPSEC) WG is chartered for to document security
requirements for routing systems.
Currently scheduled:
Tuesday March 24 2009, 9:00-11:30
WG agenda: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/sidr.html
WG webpage: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/sidr-charter.html
DNSOP WG: DNS Operations
The specifications of DNSSEC by the DNSEXT WG are done. Deployment is
being discussed in DNSOP and drafts have appeared in time for this
meeting. DNSSEC experts are monitoring implications of v6-v4 NAT in
other WGs. Currently under consideration: locally-served zones
(almost done), and requirements for management of DNS servers.
Currently scheduled:
Tuesday March 24 2009, 15h20-17h00
WG agenda: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/dnsop.txt
WG webpage: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/dnsext-charter.html
DKIM WG: Domain Keys Identified Mail WG
This is an ongoing effort to add authenticating information to the
headers of email messages. This may have some relationship to the
YAM BOF, which is aiming to capture and tighten up the specifications
of some mail headers: in order to have useful signature/verification
infrastructure, it is necessary to have well-harmonized usage of mail
headers.
Currently scheduled:
Wednesday March 25 2009, 09h00-10h15
Wednesday March 25 2009, 10h30-11h30
WG Agenda: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/dkim.txt
WG webpage: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/dkim-charter.html
Trust & Identity
----------------
Although there is no specific chartered trust or identity working
group within the IETF, there are a number of IETF work items that have
important cross connects with the broader community of identity
technology development.
OAUTH BOF: Open Web Authentication BOF
This is a BOF about some work that has come out of identity
community. An independent author draft was submitted between IETF72
and IETF73; there was a BOF at IETF73. There is a lot of interest in
the 1.0 spec for OAUTH. Since IETF73, there has been work on drafting
a charter and a lot of discussion about what should go in it.
Expected to become a WG at or after this meeting.
Currently scheduled:
Monday March 23 2009, 13h00-15h00
BOF Agenda: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/oauth.txt
GEOPRIV WG: Geographic Location/Privacy WG
The WG has been around for a long time, addressing some tricky privacy
issues. The work from this group has informed and is related to some
of the issues in ECRIT WG.
Currently scheduled:
Thursday March 26 2009, 09h00-11h30
WG Agenda: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/geopriv.html
WG webpage: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/geopriv-charter.html
ECRIT WG: Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies
This work is particularly interesting in the context of emergency 911
services. A lot of this is about authentication, and access to
identity credentials. Tied to ATOCA BOF.
Currently scheduled:
Monday March 23 2009, 15h20-17h20
WG Agenda: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/ecrit.txt
WG webpage: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ecrit-charter.html
Currently scheduled:
Wednesday March 25 2009, 09h00-10h15
BOF Agenda: not yet available
Bandwidth Management
--------------------
LEDBAT: Low Extra Delay Background Transport WG
This WG is focussing on defining a congestion control mechanism that
saturates bottleneck links, whilst simultaneously maintaining low
delay and yielding to standard TCP. In other words, a mechanism that
would allow bandwidth intensive applications to scavenge as much free
bandwidth as possible without negatively impacting on simultaneously
occurring interactive, or inelastic traffic flows. BitTorrent have
recently submitted an I-D describing a novel congestion control
mechanism for which they have already amassed considerable deployment
experience and which it is claimed meets the chartered objectives of
the working group.
Currently scheduled:
Monday March 23 2009, 13h00-15h00
WG Agenda: Not currently posted, but this mail indicates likely topics:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ledbat/current/msg00084.html
WG webpage: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ledbat-charter.html
ALTO: Application Layer Traffic Optimisation WG
This WG is designing and specifying a service that will provide
applications with information to perform better-than-random initial
peer selection based on factors including maximum bandwidth, minimum
cross-domain traffic, lowest cost to the user, etc. Work is
progressing to merge proposed solution protocols, although there are
several competing proposals still on the agenda at this time.
Documented trial deployments illustrate the potential benefits of this
approach. One area of controversy is edge-caching of content in
service provider networks, and there are a couple of drafts dealing
with this subject.
Currently scheduled:
Thursday March 26 2009, 13h00-15h000
WG Agenda: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/alto.html
WG webpage: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/alto-charter.html
P2PRG Peer-to-Peer Research Group
The IETF has formed working groups to address specific issues of P2P
networking (i.e. P2PSIP, ALTO, LEDBAT). During the development of
standards for P2P networks in these working groups, new research
topics may arise that exceed the working group charter and require a
separate forum for discussion. The P2PRG provides such a forum without
duplicating the work being done in the different IETF WGs.
Currently scheduled:
Tuesday March 24 2009, 13h00-15h00
RG Agenda: Not currently posted, but this mail contains an early draft:
http://www.irtf.org/mail-archive/web/p2prg/current/msg01375.html
(Note that meeting time has changed since that draft agenda was posted)
RG webpage: http://www.irtf.org/charter?gtype=rg&group=p2prg
IETF structure and process
--------------------------
Two important IETF structural/process discussions on the agenda for
IETF74 are the IPR discussions, and NomCom process.
PRE8PROB BOF: Pre-5378 Problem BOF
Dealing with the problem of handling IPR declarations for documents
building on RFCs that pre-dated RFC 5378 IPR rules.
Currently scheduled:
Tuesday March 24 2009, 13h00-15h00
BOF Agenda: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/09mar/agenda/pre8prob.txt
NomCom -- on IETF operations and Administration Plenary
This plenary includes the following important item for the IETF NomCom
process:
NomCom Process Change (1600 to 1655)
1. Introduction
2. Presentation of each draft followed by Q&A
- draft-galvin-rfc3777bis
- draft-dawkins-nomcom-dont-wait
- draft-dawkins-nomcom-openlist
3. Way forward
Currently scheduled:
Wednesday March 25 2009, 16h00-19h30
Leslie Daigle
Chief Internet Technology Officer
Internet Society
daigle at isoc.org
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