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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Steve Alexander/Lachman Technology
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- Minutes of the TELNET Working Group (TELNET)
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- Proposed Agenda
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- o Charter
- o Authentication Option
- o Transfer of Control Proposal
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- Summary
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- The agenda was augmented with a presentation from John Klensin, one of
- the Area Directors for the Applications Area. John discussed the IESG's
- views on the environment option controversy.
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- This shifted the primary focus of the meeting to the environment option.
- In Columbus, the group had proposed to re-issue RFC 1408 with the VAR
- and VALUE definitions corrected to match the BSD implementation.
- Additionally, a document was produced that explained heuristics that
- could be used to handle implementations that did not agree.
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- Upon further reflection it was decided that since the heuristics were
- not 100% deterministic that it would be better to re-issue RFC 1408
- using a different option value. In this way, two systems implementing
- the new option could determine that heuristics were not needed. Most
- working group members felt that in the long run this would be cleaner.
- There is a further advantage in that an earlier change requested by the
- IESG (USERVAR) means that systems using the current option values and
- the BSD definitions don't work with implementations deployed prior to
- the introduction of USERVAR.
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- This issue will be re-discussed on the mailing list in order to reach
- the widest possible audience.
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- The group briefly discussed the proposed revisions to the charter. The
- general consensus is that we don't want to remain as a clearing-house
- for TELNET documents. The charter will be revised to only cover the
- authentication work that is going on.
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- The group reviewed a proposal for a ``TELNET Transfer of Control''
- option. The group feels that there are some security issues with the
- document. Various people will forward their comments directly to the
- author. At this time the group does not wish to formally work on this
- specification.
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- Finally, the group briefly discussed Dave Borman's new option that
- merged authentication and encryption. The initial feedback is
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- favorable, but the group is waiting to see the results of an initial
- implementation using Kerberos IV.
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- Attendees
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- Steve Alexander stevea@lachman.com
- Jim Barnes barnes@xylogics.com
- Julian Bates bates@xylogics.com
- David Borman dab@cray.com
- Peter Cameron cameron@xylint.co.uk
- Sun-Kwan Kimn sunkimn@hp.com
- John Klensin Klensin@infoods.unu.edu
- Kent Malave kent@bach.austin.ibm.com
- Marjo Mercado marjo@cup.hp.com
- Greg Minshall minshall@wc.novell.com
- Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu
- Sam Sjogren sjogren@tgv.com
- Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu
- Gordon Young young@xylogics.com
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