Director's Message The 29th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force was held in Seattle, Washington from 27 March through 1 April 1994. The meeting was co-hosted by NorthWestNet and the University of Washington, and our thanks and appreciation go out to Dan Jordt, Terry Gray, and all the others that helped with the terminal room and social event. A special thanks goes to David Boyes of Rice University who graciously donated vacation time (and sleep!) to act as producer of the multicast effort. And it happened again... another well attended IETF meeting. With 785 attendees, this was the largest meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force in our history! This is up 23% from the previous meeting, and exceeds the record of 677 (set at the Cambridge IETF in 1992) by over 100! Where are all of these people coming from? The number of first-time attendees also rose to an all-time high. There were over 260 first-time attendees at the Seattle meeting (approximately 34% of the total attendees). Just over 200 people showed up for the Newcomers' Orientation on Sunday afternoon. Multicast of the IETF Meetings It is almost impossible to guess how many people listen in during the IETF meetings. There were 567 hosts on the receiving end of the Seattle IETF multicast, down from the 629 hosts during the Houston meeting (possibly due to an unresolved technical problem). The number of countries ``listening in'' stayed the same at 16. This technology is expanding the number of virtual attendees at the meetings, during both plenary sessions and woking group sessions. The broadcast system is on wheels, and it is not uncommon to see the multicast volunteers (from the host group) wheeling the two carts from the plenary room to working group meetings! These remote attendees are doing more than just listening in... I walked into a working group meeting where no one was speaking or moving. At first, I thought everyone had fallen asleep (or killed each other :-), but soon realized they were listening to a discussion between two participants, both of whom were attending the working group meeting via the multicast link from two different locations. Changing Times The opening session on Monday was extra special as Terry Gray shared thoughts on the ``wonderment'' of the Internet, recalling many of the changes he has observed since he first became an Internaut, and sharing some stories of messages and greeting cards received electronically over the years. Terry's presentation was followed by Phill Gross, who announced that he was retiring as Chair of the IETF, a position he has held since 1986. Vint Cerf, still recovering from a ``teleportation glitch,'' and Noel Chiappa joined to give Phill a (well deserved) hard time, and to present tokens of their appreciation for all Phill has done in service to the IETF. Stev Knowles wore a tie. The new Chair of the IETF, Paul Mockapetris, was announced at the open plenary on Thursday along with the new members of the IESG: Joel Halpern, Mike O'Dell, Jeff Schiller, and Claudio Topolcic The Electronic Proceedings Following the Houston IETF meeting, we began to move forward with the idea of an electronic version of the proceedings. Once this document is sent to the printers, the Secretariat will focus its efforts on producing an electronic version of the proceedings. The IETF Secretariat has always made the minutes available in the IETF remote directories, but this is not an electronic version of the proceedings. This is the first time the Secretariat is making a complete electronic version of the proceedings available. The information will be available via Gopher and WWW. Most of the Houston proceedings are now available via Gopher. It should be noted that this is being conducted as an experiment for the Seattle IETF meeting, and there will be many changes suggested in the future as we gather experience and take advantage of new technologies and capabilities. I'm sure we will receive all sorts of recommendations, suggestions, and requests. Future Meetings The next IETF meeting will be in Toronto, Ontario, Canada the last week of July (25 July through 29 July 1994). This meeting is being hosted by the University of Toronto. The final meeting of 1994 will be in San Jose from 5-9 December 1994. This meeting is being hosted by Sun Microsystems. At this writing, details are still being worked out for the meetings of 1995, though we know we will be in Europe (Stockholm) in July. Note that information on future IETF meetings can always be found in the file /ietf/0mtgsites.txt which is located in the IETF shadow directories. Stephen J. Coya Executive Director, IETF IETF Progress Report The IESG and IETF have been very active since the Houston IETF meeting last November; 158 Internet-Drafts, 37 Protocol Actions, and 62 RFCs were produced. Between the IETF meetings in Houston and Seattle, there were ten working groups created: 1. RSVP - Resource Reservation Setup Protocol (RSVP) 2. CIDR Deployment (CIDRD) 3. Address Lifetime Expectations (ALE) 4. Printer MIB (PRINTMIB) 5. Relational Database Management Systems MIB (RDBMSMIB) 6. Notifications and Acknowledgements Requirements (NOTARY) 7. DNS Security (DNSSEC) 8. Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP) 9. Common Architecture for Next Generation IP (CATNIP) 10. ONC Remote Procedure Call (ONCRPC) Eleven working groups were concluded: 1. Domain Name System (DNS) 2. Network Printing Protocol (NPP) 3. User Connectivity (UCP) 4. DECnet Phase IV MIB (DECNETIV) 5. Network Database (NETDATA) 6. BGP Deployment and Application (BGPDEPL) 7. P. Internet Protocol (PIP) 8. Simple Internet Protocol (SIP) 9. TP/IX (TPIX) 10. Frame Relay Service MIB (FRNETMIB) 11. Mail and Directory Management (MADMAN) Additionally, 62 RFCs have been published since the Houston IETF meeting in November 1993: RFC Status Title RFC 1544 PS The Content-MD5 Header Field RFC 1545 E FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (FOOBAR) RFC 1546 I Host Anycasting Service RFC 1547 I Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol RFC 1548 DS The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) RFC 1549 DS PPP in HDLC Framing RFC 1550 I IP: Next Generation (IPng)White Paper Solicitation RFC 1551 I Novell IPX Over Various WAN Media (IPXWAN) RFC 1552 PS The PPP Internetwork Packet Exchange Control Protocol (IPXCP) RFC 1553 PS Compressing IPX Headers Over WAN Media (CIPX) RFC 1554 I ISO-2022-JP-2: Multilingual Extension of ISO-2022-JP RFC 1555 I Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages RFC 1556 I Handling of Bi-directional Texts in MIME RFC 1557 I Korean Character Encoding for Internet Messages RFC 1558 I A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters RFC 1559 DS DECnet Phase IV MIB Extensions RFC 1560 I The MultiProtocol Internet RFC 1561 E Use of ISO CLNP in TUBA Environments RFC 1562 I Naming Guidelines for the AARNet X.500 Directory Service RFC 1563 I The text/enriched MIME Content-type RFC 1564 I DSA Metrics (OSI-DS 34 (v3)) RFC 1565 PS Network Services Monitoring MIB RFC 1566 PS Mail Monitoring MIB RFC 1567 PS X.500 Directory Monitoring MIB RFC 1568 I Simple Network Paging Protocol - Version 1(b) RFC 1569 I Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: Radio Paging -- Technical Procedures RFC 1570 PS PPP LCP Extensions RFC 1571 I Telnet Environment Option Interoperability Issues RFC 1572 PS Telnet Environment Option RFC 1573 PS Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II RFC 1574 I Essential Tools for the OSI Internet RFC 1575 DS An Echo Function for CLNP (ISO 8473) RFC 1576 I TN3270 Current Practices RFC 1577 PS Classical IP and ARP over ATM RFC 1578 I FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly Asked ``Primary and Secondary School Internet User'' Questions RFC 1579 I Firewall-Friendly FTP RFC 1580 I Guide to Network Resource Tools RFC 1581 I Protocol Analysis for Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits RFC 1582 PS Extensions to RIP to Support Demand Circuits RFC 1583 DS OSPF Version 2 RFC 1584 PS Multicast Extensions to OSPF RFC 1585 I MOSPF: Analysis and Experience RFC 1586 I Guidelines for Running OSPF Over Frame Relay Networks RFC 1587 PS The OSPF NSSA Option RFC 1588 I WHITE PAGES MEETING REPORT RFC 1589 I A Kernel Model for Precision Timekeeping RFC 1590 I Media Type Registration Procedure RFC 1591 I Domain Name System Structure and Delegation RFC 1592 E Simple Network Management Protocol Distributed Protocol Interface Version 2.0 RFC 1593 I SNA APPN Node MIB RFC 1594 I FYI on Questions and Answer Answers to Commonly asked ``New Internet User'' Questions RFC 1595 PS Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH Interface Type RFC 1596 PS Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service RFC 1597 I Address Allocation for Private Internets RFC 1598 PS PPP in X.25 RFC 1600 S INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS RFC 1601 I Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) RFC 1602 I The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2 RFC 1603 I IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures RFC 1604 PS Definitions of Managed Objects for Frame Relay Service RFC 1608 E Representing IP Information in the X.500 Directory RFC 1609 E Charting Networks in the X.500 Directory