TFTP Extensions (tftpexts) -------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 06/05/2000 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): G. Malkin Art Harkin Applications Area Director(s): Ned Freed Patrik Faltstrom Applications Area Advisor: Ned Freed Technical Advisor(s): John Klensin Mailing Lists: General Discussion:tftpexts@hpindsh.cup.hp.com To Subscribe: tftpexts-request@hpindsh.cup.hp.com Archive: onet2.cup.hp.com:/dist/tftpexts/tftpexts_archive Description of Working Group: The TFTP Extensions Working Group will review, refine as needed, and then make a recommendation on standardization of several recent standards-track proposals to extend TFTP. These proposals include a backward compatible extension mechanism for TFTP and related extension options for this mechanism. Initial drafts of all of the documents that the working group is expected to review have already been, or will soon be, published. The working group will be starting with documents that have been prepared as individual (or spontaneous design team) contributions. It is not expected to initiate new work. On the other hand, it is expected to make explicit "not ready for standardization" or "inappropriate for standardization" recommendations if appropriate. The working group will be begin with the following Internet-Drafts or their successors: - draft-malkin-tftp-option-ext-00.txt - draft-malkin-tftp-blksize-opt-00.txt Goals and Milestones: Done Meet at the San Jose IETF. Review pending Internet-Drafts and decide for each whether it is ready for processing to Proposed, should be published as Experimental or Informational, should be discarded as a working group effort, or should be a candidate for further working group development. Refine the charter and work plan. FEB 95 Drafts with minor revisions distributed on mailing list for review. Internet-Drafts concluded in Dec 94 refined and sent to IESG for processing. MAR 95 Concluded Internet-Drafts with minor revisions sent to IESG for processing. APR 95 Meet at the Danvers IETF if necessary. Drafts with major revisions since Dec 94 reviewed. Review new additional Internet-Drafts for new options. Review implementation progress. JUN 95 Remaining revised Internet-Drafts sent to IESG for processing. Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC1782 PS MAR 95 TFTP Option Extension RFC1783 PS MAR 95 TFTP Blocksize Option RFC1785 I MAR 95 TFTP Option Negotiation Analysis RFC1784 PS MAR 95 TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options