CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Steve Alexander/INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation Minutes of the TELNET Working Group (TELNET) The Telnet Working Group met the morning of Tuesday, November 19, 1991. An initial Agenda of possible topics included: o Administration o Authentication Option o Environment Option o Encryption Option o Future of the Working Group Steve Alexander has replaced Dave Borman as Working Group Chair and introduced himself to the group. Some members raised concerns about the functionality of the mailing list and Dave said he would look into it. We then discussed the Authentication Option and what needed to be done to publish it as an Experimental RFC: o Dave Borman will incorporate Jeff Schiller's security considerations o Kerberos IV and V documents will be split out o Ted T'so will verify the Kerberos IV draft o Dave Borman will talk to John Cole about Kerberos V o Four separate drafts will be issued for a two week comment period - Basic option - Kerberos IV - Kerberos V - SPX The next item was the Environment Option. This was fairly non-controversial. o Dave Borman will split well-defined and arbitrary variables o There was discussion about passing some sort of OSTYPE variable based on the Assigned Numbers list o Dave will transfer editing of this option to Steve Both of these are expected to be completed by the end of 1991. 1 The next item was the encryption option and there was much spirited discussion around a security vs. performance balance. o The current encryption option cannot stop an active attacker o Having encryption on might be too slow on some PCs It was decided to send the current authentication option forward to Experimental and then work on tying authentication and encryption together. o Jeff Schiller will work with Steve Crocker to get expertise in this area. Attendees Steve Alexander stevea@i88.isc.com Robert Austein sra@asylum.sf.ca.us James Barnes barnes@xylogics.com Larry Blunk ljb@merit.edu David Borman dab@cray.com Peter DiCamillo cmsmaint@brownvm.brown.edu Neil Haller nmh@bellcore.com Charles Kaufman kaufman@dsmail.enet.dec.com Mark Lewis mlewis@telebit.com John Linn linn@zendia.enet.dec.com Glenn McGregor ghm@merit.edu Jeffrey Schiller jis@mit.edu Richard Smith smiddy@pluto.dss.com Bruce Taber taber@interlan.com Theodore Tso tytso@mit.edu Kathleen Wilde wilde@decvax.dec.com 2