The charter of the Transport Area Working Group (tsvwg) working group in the Transport Area of the IETF has been updated. For additional information, please contact the Area Directors or the working group Chairs. +++ Transport Area Working Group (tsvwg) ------------------------------------ Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): James Polk <jmpolk@cisco.com> Magnus Westerlund <magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com> Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@netlab.nec.de> Transport Area Director(s): Magnus Westerlund <magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com> Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@netlab.nec.de> Transport Area Advisor: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@netlab.nec.de> Mailing Lists: General Discussion: tsvwg@ietf.org To Subscribe: tsvwg-request@ietf.org In Body: subscribe email_address Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tsvwg/index.html Description of Working Group: The Transport Area receives occasional proposals for the development and publication of RFCs dealing with transport topics that are not in scope of an existing working group or do not justify the formation of a new working group. TSVWG will serve as the forum for developing such work items in the IETF. The TSVWG mailing list is an open discussion forum for such work items, when they arise. The working group meets if there are active proposals that require discussion. The working group milestones are updated as needed to reflect the current work items and their associated milestones. The currently active TSVWG work items mostly fall under the following topics: (A) Maintenance of the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), which involves bug fixes to the SCTP specifications and their progression along the standards track. This work item also includes a small number of modular extensions to SCTP. Currently, these include SCTP-ADDIP, SCTP-AUTH and SCTP-PADDING, as well as socket API and threat analysis documents. In order to maintain stable specifications, additional work on SCTP in TSVWG requires Area Director approval. (B) Maintenance of the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), which involves bug fixes to the RSVP specifications and their progression along the standards track. This work item may also include a small number of extensions to RSVP or advisory documents to address specific application scenarios. In order to maintain stable specifications, additional work on RSVP in TSVWG requires Area Director approval. (C) Maintenance of IP Differentiated Services (DiffServ) mechanisms, which involves mostly advisory documents on the use of DiffServ in specific application scenarios. Other work items related to DiffServ require Area Director approval. (D) Selected other work items, which are mostly in TSVWG for historic reasons. These include an extended statistics MIB for TCP and the quick-start mechanism for TCP and IP. Additional work that does not fall under one of the above topics in TSVWG must satisfy four conditions: (1) WG consensus on the suitability and projected quality of the proposed work item. (2) A core group of WG participants with sufficient energy and expertise to advance the work item according to the proposed schedule. (3) Commitment from the WG as a whole to provide sufficient and timely review of the proposed work item. (4) Agreement by the ADs, who, depending on the scope of the proposed work item, may decide that an IESG review is needed first. Goals and Milestones: Jun 2006 Submit "Alternate Semantics for the ECN Field" to IESG for consideration as BCP Jun 2006 Submit "Aggregation of RSVP Reservations over MPLS TE/DS-TE Tunnels" to IESG for consideration as PS Jun 2006 Submit "QoS Signaling in a Nested Virtual Private Network" to IESG for consideration as Informational Jun 2006 Submit "Generic Aggregate RSVP Reservations" to IESG for consideration as PS Jul 2006 Submit "Quick-Start for TCP and IP" to IESG for consideration as Experimental Jul 2006 Submit "TCP Extended Statistics MIB" to IESG for consideration as PS Aug 2006 Submit "SCTP Dynamic Address Reconfiguration" to IESG for consideration as PS Aug 2006 Submit "Authenticated Chunks for Stream Control Transmission Protocol" to IESG as consideration as PS Oct 2006 Submit "Security Threats to SCTP" to IESG for consideration as Informational Nov 2006 Submit "Sockets API Extensions for Stream Control Transmission Protocol" to IESG for consideration as Informational Dec 2006 Submit "Padding Chunk and Parameter for SCTP" to IESG for consideration as PS Jan 2007 Submit revision of "Stream Control Transmission Protocol" to IESG for consideration as PS Mar 2007 Submit "Aggregation of DiffServ Service Classes" for consideration as Informational _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce