N-2-3-900.12 Standards Actions by Steve Coya* The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) approved or recommended the following nineteen actions between 1 Jul 1993 and 30 Sep 1993: o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol as a Proposed Standard o DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions as a Proposed Standard o Interoperation Between DHCP and BOOTP as a Proposed Standard o Clarifications and Extensions for the Bootstrap Protocol as a Proposed Standard o An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR as a Proposed Standard o The PPP Internetwork Packet Exchange Control Protocol (IPXCP) as a Proposed Standard o Compressing IPX Headers Over WAN Media (CIPX) as a Proposed Standard o Applicability Statement for the Implementation of Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) as a Proposed Standard o FDDI Management Information Base as a Proposed Standard o Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy as a Proposed Standard o Applicability Statement for the Implementation of Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) as an Informational Informational Document o Exchanging Routing Information Across Provider/Subscriber Boundaries in the CIDR Environment as an Informational Document. o Assignment of System Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP Hosts as an Informational Document o Interactive Mail Access Protocol - Version 3 now has a status of Historic o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) as a Proposed Standard o Token Ring Extensions to the Remote Network Monitoring MIB as a Proposed Standard o Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices as a Draft Standard o Host Resources MIB as a Proposed Standard o Definitions of Managed Objects for Source Routing Bridges as a Proposed Standard Fifty-one Requests for Comments (RFC) were published between 1 Jul 1993 and 30 Sep 1993: RFC St Title ------- -- ------------------------------------- RFC1440 E SIFT/UFT: Sender-Initiated/Unsolicited File Transfer RFC1467 I Status of CIDR Deployment in the Internet RFC1477 I IDPR as a Proposed Standard RFC1478 PS An Architecture for Inter-Domain Policy Routing RFC1479 PS Inter-Domain Policy Routing Protocol Specification: Version 1 RFC1481 I IAB Recommendation for an Intermediate Strategy to Address the Issue of Scaling RFC1482 I Aggregation Support in the NSFNET Policy Routing Database RFC1483 PS Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5 RFC1484 E Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly Naming (OSI-DS 24 (v1.2)) RFC1485 PS A String Representation of Distinguished Names (OSI-DS 23 (v5)) RFC1486 E An Experiment in Remote Printing RFC1487 PS X.500 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol RFC1488 PS The X.500 String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes RFC1489 I Registration of a Cyrillic Character Set RFC1490 DS Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay RFC1491 I A Survey of Advanced Usages of X.500 RFC1492 I An Access Control Protocol, Sometimes Called TACACS RFC1493 DS Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges RFC1494 PS Equivalences between 1988 X.400 and RFC-822 Message Bodies RFC1495 PS Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822 Message Bodies RFC1496 PS Rules for downgrading messages from X.400/88 to X.400/84 when MIME content-types are present in the messages RFC1497 I BOOTP Vendor Information Extensions RFC1498 I On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations RFC1500 DS INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS RFC1501 I OS/2 User Group RFC1502 PS X.400 Use of Extended Character Sets RFC1503 I Algorithms for Automating Administration in SNMPv2 Managers RFC1504 I Appletalk Update-Based Routing Protocol: Enhanced Appletalk Routing RFC1505 E Encoding Header Field for Internet Messages RFC1506 I A tutorial on gatewaying between X.400 and Internet mail RFC1507 E Distributed Authentication Security Service RFC1508 PS Generic Security Service Application Program Interface RFC1509 PS Generic Security Service API : C-bindings RFC1510 PS The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5) RFC1511 I Common Authentication Technology Overview RFC1512 PS FDDI Management Information Base RFC1513 PS Token Ring Extensions to the Remote Network Monitoring MIB RFC1514 PS Host Resources MIB RFC1515 PS Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) RFC1516 DS Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Repeater Devices RFC1517 PS Applicability Statement for the Implementation of Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) RFC1518 PS An Architecture for IP Address Allocation with CIDR RFC1519 PS Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy RFC1520 I Exchanging Routing Information Across Provider Boundaries in the CIDR Environment RFC1521 DS MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies RFC1522 DS MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text RFC1523 I The text/enriched MIME Content-type RFC1524 I A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information RFC1525 PS Definitions of Managed Objects for Source Routing Bridges RFC1526 I Assignment of System Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP Hosts RFC1527 I What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of the Network? Key to RFC Status: S Internet Standard PS Proposed Standard DS Draft Standard E Experimental I Informational * Director, IETF Secretariat