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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by Marcus Leech/Bell Northern Research
Minutes of the Authenticated Firewall Traversal Working Group (AFT)
The AFT Working Group meeting was held on Tuesday, 18 July. There were
about 50 attendees---less than in Danvers, but Stockholm attendance in
general was less than Danvers.
The issues brought to the table were:
o Extending the METHOD negotiation model to include exchange of
arbitrary octet strings as METHOD descriptors. There was general
consensus at the meeting that staying with the current model is a
good thing (that is, no one objected). The chair's position is
that ``better is the enemy of good enough.''
o Feedback from implementors on UDP DESTROY has indicated that it is
not a terribly useful construct. There was general consensus that
removing UDP DESTROY was a good thing. The new proposed model is
that the connection that the UDP ASSOCIATE arrives on defines the
lifetime of the UDP association it creates.
o It is expected that interopability testing may commence soon,
perhaps as early as mid August, it appeared that three independent
implementations are already in progress, with the BNR-based one
being the basis for the ICL/SESAME implementation. Volunteers are
needed to step up to the plate.
o IMAP was brought up as a possible framework for plugging SOCKS
into. The chair (having reviewed the IMAP documents) feels that it
belongs underneath SOCKS as a METHOD, rather than as something that
SOCKS gets buried in.
The chair generally feels that (modulo some clarifications, and
incorporation of the technicals discussed in Stockholm) the document is
close to being ready to go through Last Calls and ``Proposed.'' The
chair expects to issue a new Internet-Draft on the base protocol by
28 July.