Editor's Note: Minutes received 7/29 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Steve Alexander/INTERACTIVE Systems Minutes of the TELNET Working Group (TELNET) The Telnet Working Group met on July 14th in Cambridge. The primary topic of discussion was (once again) encryption. A compromise position was reached in which the following will occur: We will move forward with folding encryption into the authentication option as discussed in San Diego. This document will be put forth as a Proposed Standard. The older encryption document will be put forth as an Experimental RFC when the newer one is available. The older one is not felt to be secure in the face of active attacks, and therefore should not be ``blessed.'' In other business, the Group will recommend that Environment Option be put forth as a Proposed Standard, and that Authentication Option, Kerberos IV Authentication Suboption, and SPX Authentication Suboption be put out as Experimental RFCs. The Kerberos V Authentication Suboption is still being revised by Ted Ts'o, and will also be put out as an Experimental RFC when done. Attendees Steve Alexander stevea@i88.isc.com Robert Austein sra@epilogue.com Mark Baushke mdb@cisco.com David Borman dab@cray.com Geetha Brown geetha@decvax.dec.com Michael DeAddio deaddio@thumper.bellcore.com Peter DiCamillo Peter_DiCamillo@brown.edu Roger Fajman raf@cu.nih.gov Robert Gilligan Bob.Gilligan@eng.sun.com Neil Haller nmh@thumper.bellcore.com John Linn linn@erlang.enet.dec.com Kent Malave kent@chang.austin.ibm.com Marjo Mercado marjo@cup.hp.com Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu Jeffrey Schiller jis@mit.edu Jeremy Siegel jzs@nsd.3com.com Rajesh Srivastava Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu 1