WG Action: ONC Remote Procedure Call (oncrpc)

IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Fri, 11 March 1994 19:25 UTC

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 14:21:52 -0500
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A new working group has been formed in the Service Applications Area of
the IETF. For more information, please contact the working group's
chair(s) or the SAP Area Director.


IESG Secretary


 Charter

 Chair(s):
     Raj Srinivasan  <raj.srinivasan@eng.sun.com>

 Service Applications Area Director(s)
     Dave Crocker  <dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu>

 Mailing lists:
     General Discussion:oncrpc-wg@sunroof.eng.sun.com
     To Subscribe:      oncrpc-wg-request@sunroof.eng.sun.com
     Archive:           playground.sun.com: pub/oncrpc

Description of Working Group:

The purpose of the onc-rpc working group is to update the RFCs that
describe ONC RPC to reflect the current state of the deployed and
accepted technology, and submit them for Internet standardization.

ONC RPC is currently described in the following RFCs:
   RFC 1057: RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2
   RFC 1014: XDR: External Data Representation Standard

The focus of the ONC-RPC working group is to document and standardize
the current ONC RPC protocols. It not the intent of this working group
to develop extensions to these protocols. However, once these tasks are
completed, discussions of future enhancements are expected. These
discussions could lead to a follow on working group.

Background:

ONC RPC is a Remote Procedure Call technology that originated in Sun
Microsystems in the early 1980's. ONC RPC was modelled on Xerox's
Courier RPC protocols. It has been widely deployed on platforms from
most major workstation vendors. It has been implemented on MSDOS,
Microsoft WINDOWS, Microsoft WINDOWS NT, MacOS, VMS, MVS, and
practically all flavors of UNIX, among others. Sun Microsystems has
given the ownership of ONC RPC and change control over the ONC RPC
protocols to the IETF.

Note: ONC stands for "Open Network Computing".

 Goals and Milestones:

   Mar 94 Post XDR: External Data Representation Standard (and update of RFC
	  1014) as an Internet-Draft

   Mar 94 Post RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2
	  (update of RFC 1057) as an Internet-Draft.

   May 94 Submit XDR document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard

   May 94 Submit RPC document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard

WG Action: ONC Remote Procedure Call (oncrpc) IESG Secretary