Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/31 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Allan Rubens/Merit and John Vollbrecht/Merit Minutes of the Network Access Server Requirements Working Group (NASREQ) The session began with a review of the status and goals of the Network Access Server (nasreq) Working Group. There has been a BOF at each of the last two IETF meetings where the purpose of this Group was discussed. A Charter has been submitted to the IESG which is waiting final approval. This Charter proposes that the Group should write an RFC which spells out a set of standards required for Network Access Servers in the same way the router requirements RFC describes protocol requirements for internet routers. The NAS requirements are expected to be mainly in areas of Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA). The Group met as a Working Group for the first time at the Boston IETF. There was discussion about how the Group will work and what its initial goals should be. The Security Area Director, Steve Crocker, stated that he would like this Group to only state the required standards; not define them. Steve suggested that the initial work of this Group be to refine the ``Requirements'' draft and submit it as an Internet Draft. It should explicitly be sent to the hairs of the CAT Group, the Accounting Group, and the soon-to-be-formed Authentication and Access Control Group and they should be asked to discuss it at their meetings at the next IETF. We should schedule our meeting(s) later in the week so we can discuss what these other groups had to say. A copy of a draft ``NAS Requirements Document'' was distributed. This document states the NAS AAA functionality requirements for which a required set of standards needs to be adopted. This document needs to be reviewed and reworked by next IETF. There was strong recommendation from Steve Crocker that this document be a first draft of the final document, but a desciption of NAS requirements. It should not include specific protocol recommendations; the protocol recommendations will come in consultation with other working groups. The ``NAS Requirements Document'' will be submitted as an Internet Draft about a month before the fall IETF. At the last BOF it was suggested that the Group be divided into two subgroups; one to investigate the requirements for character-stream NAS access and the other to examine framed access. The feeling at that time was that the issues involved with these two access classes were sufficiently different that it would be better to proceed on two tracks. However, after further discussion at this meeting, the Group unanimously felt that the issues are not that different and it would be better to proceed as a single group working on both classes. The Charter will be revised to indicate this decision. Volunteers were solicited to assist in the refining of the ``Requirements'' draft . Work on the draft will be shared on the auth-acct@merit.edu mail group. There was one new volunteer to help 1 with the document. The document will be revised and sent to the mail group as quickly as possible. Attendees George Abe abe@infonet.com Jim Barnes barnes@xylogics.com Charles Bazaar bazaar@emulex.com Charles Blauner chazx@ctt.bellcore.com Stephen Crocker crocker@tis.com Michael DeAddio deaddio@thumper.bellcore.com Kelly Furlong kelly@kyle.ksc.nasa.gov Shari Galitzer shari@shari.mitre.org Pria Graves priag@nsd.3com.com Ittai Hershman ittai@nis.ans.net Alton Hoover hoover@ans.net William Huyck David Katinsky dmk@rutgers.edu John Labbe labbe@merit.edu John Linn linn@erlang.enet.dec.com J. Scott Marcus smarcus@bbn.com Glenn McGregor ghm@merit.edu Stephanie Price Marasciulloprice@cmc.com Ed Reeder EREEDER@ralvm12.vnet.ibm.com Allan Rubens acr@merit.edu Paul Sangster sangster@ans.net Robert Shirey shirey@mitre.org Jeremy Siegel jzs@nsd.3com.com John Vollbrecht jrv@merit.edu Jesse Walker walker@eider.lkg.dec.com David Wang wang@xylogics.com Peter Williams p.williams@uk.ac.ucl.cs 2