CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Ron Sharp/AT&T Minutes of the Commercial Internet Protocol Security Option Working Group (CIPSO) Twenty-eight IETF members attended the CIPSO Working Group meeting. The meeting started with Ron Sharp providing a brief introduction of the Working Group's purpose and history. This was followed by a concise description of CIPSO. The current status of the Internet-Draft was given with emphasis on the fact that the specification has still not reached Proposed Standard after more than a year of trying. Attendees were warned that there were two versions of CIPSO in the Internet-Draft remote directories. Since then the situation has been corrected. The latest version of CIPSO is dated March 9, 1993. There was some concern about the file name of the Internet-Draft in the directories and Steve Crocker agreed to look into it and change it. Ron described the changes made in the most recent version of CIPSO. Most of the changes were organizational with some addition of information to improve clarity. There was a new release tag added in this version. A couple of members were concerned as to the proper processing of the release tag and Ron agreed to follow up on this. Noel Nazario of NIST provided a description of the work being done on the new NIST GOSIP security label. He is soliciting comments for this new label, particularly on how it relates or should relate to CIPSO. The remainder of the time was left for discussion. Three of the people present were concerned that the specification needed more information such as pseudo code to assist implementors. It was noted that over ten companies have successfully implemented CIPSO with an earlier specification and that it has gone through interoperability testing successfully. The discussion ended with Steve Crocker agreeing to send detailed comments to Ron Sharp as to what is needed in order for the specification to go to Proposed Standard. Attendees John Campbell jrcamp@nosc.mil Stephen Crocker crocker@tis.com Kishan Dudkikar kishan@icm1.icp.net Jonathan Fellows jonf@gdstech.grumman.com Antonio Fernandez afa@thumper.bellcore.com Jisoo Geiter geiter@mitre.org Richard Harris rharris@atc.boeing.com Gerd Holzhauer holzhauer1@applelink.apple.com Alton Hoover hoover@ans.net 1 Charles Kaufman kaufman@zk3.dec.com Stephen Kent kent@bbn.com Tony Li tli@cisco.com James Mahon mahonj@honfsi1.att.com P.V. McMahon p.v.mcmahon@rea0803.wins.icl.co.uk Judy Nasar jdnasar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Noel Nazario nazario@csmes.ncsl.nist.gov Christopher Provenzano proven@csi.compuserve.com April Richstein amr@tycho.ncsc.mil Paul Sangster sangster@reston.ans.net Vilson Sarto vilson@fapq.fapesp.br Ron Sharp rls@neptune.att.com Robert Shirey shirey@mitre.org Michael St. Johns stjohns@darpa.mil Klaus Truoel truoel@gmd.de James Weatherford weatherf@nosc.mil Charles Young Charles.E.Young@att.com Kiho Yum kxy@nsd.3com.com James Zmuda zmuda@mls.hac.com 2