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- This is a rough draft - Megan 04/21/92
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- Telnet minutes:
- Steve Alexander/INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
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- The Telnet working group met the morning of Tuesday, March 17, 1992.
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- An initial agenda of possible topics included:
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- o Authentication Option
- o Environment Option
- o Remote Flow Control Option
- o Encryption Option
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- A discussion of authentication was held. It was decided that the
- authentication drafts should be put forth as experimental RFCs after some
- minor editorial changes. Steve Alexander will edit the drafts and send them
- on to be published. The changes include removing several
- authentication types from the list in the main document and specifying the
- Kerberos V4 authenticator in section 2 of the Kerberos IV draft.
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- Dave Borman has made a minor extension to remote flow control to allow
- any character to restart output. It was decided that Dave will send this
- document to the IESG on his own, since this has not been discussed by
- the working group in detail and the change is straightforward.
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- The Environment option was discussed in detail. Dave Borman explained
- the history behind the VAR and USERVAR separation. The usefulness of
- variables such as PRINTER was debated. Some group members raised the
- issue of tying the environment option to the authentication option; it
- was decided that they did not need to be tied together. It was decided
- not to add ACCT/JOB fields to the authentication option. The group has
- decided to put the environment option forward as a Proposed Standard
- after some clarification of VAR & USERVAR in section V. Steve Alexander
- will make the changes and submit the document.
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- No serious discussion of encryption was held. Steve volunteered to begin
- looking at merging encryption with authentication as discussed in Santa Fe.
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- Action Items:
- - Steve Alexander
- revise authentication documents and submit as experimental
- revise environment document and submit as proposed
- look at merging encryption/authentication
- - Dave Borman
- submit remote flow control option as a proposed standard
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