Authenticated Firewall Traversal (aft) -------------------------------------- Charter Current status: active working group Chair(s): Marcus Leech Security Area Director(s): Jeffrey Schiller Mailing lists: General Discussion:aft@unify.com To Subscribe: aft-request@unify.com Archive: ftp://ftp.unify.com/ietf/aft Description of Working Group: The goal of the Authenticated Firewall Traversal Working Group is to specify a protocol to address the issue of application-layer support for firewall traversal. The working group intends to specify a traversal protocol supporting both TCP and UDP applications with a general framework for authentication of the firewall traversal. To promote interoperability, the group will also propose a base authentication technique for use within the general authentication framework. The output of the group will consist of a standards-track RFC(s) describing the traversal protocol, the base authentication methods and a reference implementation of the protocol, and base authentication methods. The working group will start with the SOCKS system described by David Koblas in his paper presented at the 1992 Usenix Security Symposium. Goals and Milestones: Oct 94 Issue Internet-Draft on V5 SOCKS protocol. Oct 94 Publish sample implementation for UNIX. Nov 94 Issue Internet-Draft on SOCKS base authentication methods. Nov 94 Publish sample implementation for UNIX. Dec 94 Submit final draft of SOCKS protocol and authentication methods for RFC. Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- ------------------------------------------ Oct 94 Apr 95 SOCKS Protocol Version 5 Mar 95 New Username/Password Authentication for SOCKS V5 Mar 95 Apr 95 GSS-API Authentication Method for SOCKS Version 5 Request For Comments: None to date.