Minutes of AFT WG at 48nd IETF-Pittsburgh meeting

Authenticated Firewall Traversal Working Group Meeting
July 31, 2000
Pittsburgh, USA

Chaired by Wei Lu <wlu@syl.dl.nec.com>
Reported by Wei Lu

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AGENDA
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	o Closing the revision of RFC 1928.
	o Review the proposed protocol framework.
	o Miscellaneous.

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Closing the revision of RFC 1928
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Marc VanHeyningen summarized the revision of RFC 1928.
Highlights of the revision are:

	- LIPKEY is chosen as the mechanism for GSS-API authentication method for SOCKS.

	- Clarified UDP command option and UDP subcommand.

The WG agreed that the draft will move to the last call.

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Review the proposed protocol framework
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Wei Lu presented a sketch of the protocol framework for the next version of SOCKS. It includes

	- TCP CONNECT support.
	- TCP BIND support.
	- UDP SEND support.
	- UDP BIND support.
	- MULTICAST SEND support.
	- MULTICAST BIND (JOIN/ADD_MEMBERSHIP) support.
	- MULTICAST DROP (LEAVE/DROP_MEMBERSHIP) support.
	- UDP/MULTICAST DATA
	- UDP/MULTICAST PEER
	- UDP/MULTICAST CLOSE
	- FIREWALL ADD address association ID
	- FIREWALL REMOVE address association ID

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Miscellaneous
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Melinda Shore asked whether AFT is willing to get more involved in firewall traversal support for emerging multimedia applications. Wei Lu commented that AFT will consider such involvements. He will consult with AFT members and members of other groups for a final decision.

Wei Lu urge AFT members to be active participants, instead of passive listeners.