Protocol Action: ISO Transport Service on top of TCP (ITOT) to Proposed Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Wed, 29 January 1997 19:00 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: ISO Transport Service on top of TCP (ITOT) to Proposed Standard
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:00:09 -0500
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  The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft ISO Transport Service on top
  of TCP (ITOT) <draft-pouffary-itot-04.txt> as a Proposed Standard.
  This document is not the product of an IETF Working Group, but was taken as a
  work item first by a BOF on ISO protocols over IPv6 and then by a BOF
  focussing on review of ITOT.  There was an extended (four week) Last
  Call for this document.

  The IESG contact person is Allison Mankin.

Technical Summary

  ITOT is a backwards-compatible update of RFC1006 to allow ISO
  Transport service over TCP over IPv6.  The impact of IPv6 is that the
  ISO Transport Service must accept IPv6 addresses.  ITOT also adds to
  the TP0 service over TCP standardized in RFC1006 a TP2 service.

  The two known constituencies of this specification will be users of
  X.400 over TCP, which uses RFC 1006, and users of applications that
  were migrated from DECNET Phase 4 to Phase 5 Transport. The use of
  TP2 is that adopted by DECNET Phase 5.

Working Group Summary

  The two BOFs that considered ITOT viewed the updating of RFC1006 to
  be necessary.  The BOF that focused on it reached consensus that it
  should be advanced to Proposed Standard.  The Last Call surfaced no
  technical flaws.

Protocol Quality

  This document was reviewed for the IESG by Harald Alvestrand and
  by Allison Mankin.  Keith Sklower chaired the reviewing BOF.
  There are known to be two vendors implementing the specification.

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