Extensions to FTP (ftpext) -------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 16-Oct-97 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Paul Hethmon Applications Area Director(s): Keith Moore Harald Alvestrand Applications Area Advisor: Keith Moore Mailing Lists: General Discussion:ftp-wg@hethmon.com To Subscribe: ftp-wg-request@hethmon.com In Body: subscribe Archive: http://w3.hethmon.com/ftpext/ Description of Working Group: 1. Recommend changes to the FTP protocol to support users of languages other than English. 2. Define a new command for a uniform directory listing between platforms. This command will provide an alternative to the existing LIST and NLST commands which has a common format between all FTP implementations and which also provides the ability to represent non-ASCII filenames. 3. Make recommendations for standards-track protocol extensions to support IPv6 in FTP. The group will evaluate RFC 1639 and recommend, revise, or redo as appropriate. 4. Define a mechanism for ftp clients and servers to transmit information regarding extensions supported and not supported. 5. Propose extensions, and/or review proposals submitted by others, to improve the security of FTP. 6. Define a standardized method of checkpoint/restart which works for the stream transfer mode. 7. Define a means of file transfer between a client and server (as opposed to a client mediating a transfer between two servers) which does not require the IP addresses of the endpoints to be transmitted in the FTP protocol. 8. Produce an informational document describing the SIZE and MDTM commands as currently used. The following issues are specifically omitted from the working group's charter, but may be added by the Area Directors if time permits, once the above goals have been acheived. 1. Compression of files for transmission. 2. Internationalization of charset conversion for transmission. Goals and Milestones: Done Issue an Internet-Draft covering internationalization issues. Nov 96 Issue an Internet-Draft for a standard listing command. Nov 96 Issue an Internet-Draft for an extension mechanism. Feb 97 Issue a second Internet-Draft for a standard listing command. Feb 97 Issue a second Internet-Draft for an extension mechanism. Mar 97 Submit the listing and extension mechanism Internet-Drafts to IESG for consideration as Proposed Standards. Mar 97 Issue an Internet-Draft for checkpoint/restart. Done Issue an Internet-Draft for IPv6 support, and to remove the necessity of transmitting IP addresses in the FTP protocol for transfers between a client and server. Apr 97 Issue a second Internet-Draft for checkpoint/restart. Done Issue a second Internet-Draft for IPv6 support and to remove the necessity of transmitting IP addresses. May 97 Submit the IPv6/IP and checkpoint/restart Internet-Drafts to IESG for consideration as Proposed Standards. Jun 97 Issue revised 'EPRT/EPSV' I-D. Title: 'FTP Extensions for IPv6, Address Translation, and Mobile IP.' Jun 97 Submit draft-allman-ftp-sec-consider as Informational RFC. Jun 97 Issue revised I-D for MLST/MLSD/REST. Title: 'Extended Directory Listing and Restart Mechanism for FTP' Jun 97 Submit 'FEAT' I-D as a proposed standard. Title: 'Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol' Jun 97 Issue revised 'EPRT/EPSV' I-D. Jun 97 Submit draft-allman-ftp-sec-consider as Informational RFC. Done Issue a second Internet Draft for i18n. Done Issue an Internet-Draft covering internationalization issues. Done Issue an Internet-Draft for checkpoint/restart. Done Issue updated I-D for i18n. Done Issue an I-D for ipv6 support. Done Issue a second Internet-Draft for MLST and FEAT. Done Issue a third Internet Draft for MLST and FEAT. Done Issue an Internet-Draft for MLST and FEAT. Jul 97 submit MLST/REST as proposed standard Jul 97 submit EPRT/EPSV as a proposed standard Jul 97 submit revised I18N I-D Aug 97 submit I18N I-D as a proposed standard Oct 97 Issue WG Last Call for:Security Considerations, Variable Protocol Specification, Internationalization Issues Nov 97 Submit Security Considerations, Variable Protocol Specification, Internationalization Issues to IESG for consideration as RFCs Nov 97 Issue WG Last Call for:Feature Negotiation & Extended Directory Listing Dec 97 Submit Feature Negotiation & Extended Directory Listing to IESG for consideration as RFCs. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- ------------------------------------------ Nov 96 Aug 97 Extended Directory Listing and Restart Mechanism for FTP Nov 96 Jun 97 Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol Mar 97 New REST Command and Extensions to FTP Jun 97 Jul 97 Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol Request For Comments: None to date.