Telnet TN3270 Enhancements (tn3270e) ------------------------------------ Charter Current status: active working group Chair(s): Robert Moskowitz <3858921@mcimail.com> Applications Area Director(s) John Klensin Erik Huizer Mailing lists: General Discussion:tn3270e@list.nih.gov To Subscribe: listserv@list.nih.gov In Body: sub tn3270e Archive: listserv@list.nih.gov Description of Working Group: The TN3270 Enhancements Working Group will document the current practices that provide limited support for 3270 devices over TELNET and will develop a specification that allows the 3270 family of devices, including printers, to function properly over TCP via TELNET. Topics such as authentication, which are being addressed by other working groups, are recognized as important to TN3270, but are beyond the scope of this effort. The specification will draw on work already done by the Internet community for supporting 3270 devices through TELNET. It will be based on appropriate portions of IBM's published documentation on 3270 display and printer data streams and LU function management. Finally, it will make use of existing TELNET facilities where possible. The working group will produce: an Informational RFC documenting current TN3270 terminal practices, an Experimental RFC describing an interim approach to printing and LU name selection (this will address the work that is already under way and implementations of this partial solution that are already in place), and a standards-track RFC specifying the TELNET protocols that support a fully functional 3270 display and printing environment. This RFC will supersede RFC 1041 and the Experimental RFC describing the interim approach to printing and LU name selection. Goals and Milestones: Done Submit an Internet-Draft documenting current TN3270 terminal emulation practices. Done Post an Internet-Draft describing the Interim approach to printing and LU name selection. May 93 Submit the interim printing and LU name selection document to the IESG for consideration as an Experimental Protocol. May 93 Post as an Internet-Draft a protocol to support a fully functional 3270 display and printing environment over TELNET. Done Submit the document describing current TN2370 terminal practices to the IESG for consideration as an Informational Protocol. Sep 93 Submit the TN3270 TELNET specification to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.