Subject: [Ips] Progress towards RFC publication

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:06:27 -0500

Everyone,

Between IESG action and some behind the scenes work
by your WG chairs and ADs, significant progress has
been made on RFC publication of the ips WG's drafts.

-- Recent IESG actions

The iSCSI Naming and Discovery and iSCSI String Profile
(stringprep) drafts have been approved for RFC publication
by the IESG.  A minor revision was made to the latter via
an RFC Editor note.  Congratulations to the authors and
thanks to all who have contributed.

The iSNS draft was almost approved by the IESG.  It needs
updates to some of its security text, and we need to
have the WG's MIB expert check the SNMP-related aspects
of the iSNS draft.  The WG chairs will contact the draft
authors with specific guidance.

The iSCSI boot draft is much improved over its previous
version, but new issues have surfaced involving use of DHCP
with IPv6 and specification of server name formats
(plus some additional minor issues).  Also, the
references need to be carefully scrubbed to ensure that
only the necessary references are normative.  The WG
chairs will contact the draft authors with specific
guidance.  Anyone looking at this draft in the draft
tracker should note that Randy Bush's (mostly security)
comments have been resolved by the current version of
the iSCSI boot draft.

-- Other drafts in the RFC Editor queue

A number of normative references in the IP Storage
Security draft have been made informative.  This should
clear the way for RFC publication of the security draft
and the iSCSI draft.  The WG chairs and ADs will check
whether there is any problem with the current IANA
processing of the AES CTR draft.

The FC Encapsulation draft is in the process of being
published.

The FCIP draft has an additional dependence on the FCIP-SLP
draft, and will have to wait for it - see below for more
on the FCIP-SLP draft.

The iFCP draft has an additional dependence on the iSNS
draft, and will have to wait for it - see above for more
on the iSNS draft.

-- Other IPS WG drafts

The iSCSI authentication MIB draft needs a revised version
that removes the SRP and CHAP credential objects.  The MIB
draft author should consider this to be a public poke/ding/
request to prepare that revision.  Placeholders are to be
used as needed so that removal of these objects does not
cause any numbering changes to other objects.

Both the FCIP-SLP and iSCSI-SLP drafts are currently being
held up by a security issue (what is the mandatory-to-
implement security mechanism?), in addition to other IESG
comments that require minor changes.  The WG chairs will work
on the security issue with the draft authors and the authors
of the IPS security draft.

T10 has completed its work related to the iSCSI name extension
(allow NAA format names) draft.  The authors of that draft
have been asked to prepare a revised draft that references the
T10 results (e.g., removes the reference to 02-419 and replaces
it with a reference to the appropriate revision of SPC-3).
That version of the draft will go to IPS WG Last Call.

Detailed status info can be found in the IETF draft tracker:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi

Thanks,
--David

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