RSVP Admission Policy WG (rap)
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/rap-charter.html

3/15/99
Minutes reported by Andrew Smith.


Current status - chair (see slides)

Documents on the agenda right now: done RAP and RSVP WG last calls, only
editorial issues outstanding.  Will forward to IETF last call real soon.
1. RAP framework - Informational. Needs editorial spin (ed. since completed
as -02 draft).
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rap-framework-02.txt. 
2. COPS Protocol - Standards' track
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rap-cops-06.txt
3. COPS for RSVP - Standards' track.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rap-cops-rsvp-04.txt
4. Policy Extensions for RSVP. Standards' track. Has had editorial spin
after RSVP WG comments but needs another week for RSVP WG review.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rap-rsvp-ext-05.txt 
5. Preemption Priority policy objects for RSVP. Standards' track.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rap-signaled-priority-03.txt
6. Identity representation for RSVP. Standards' track.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rap-rsvp-identity-03.txt
Publication of these would fulfill existing RAP charter.


IP Addressing assumptions in COPS - Dave Durham/Intel (see slides)

How does COPS work in the presence of NAT and lack of transparency in IP
addressing? COPS is fairly well set up. Only area where we depend on IP
addressing is in "PDP Redirect" operation. We have added a TCP port number
field here to allow {IP, TCPport} as addressing for PDP - works for
port-substitution NATs). Another solution is to use DNS FQDN instead of IP
addresses - this is more complex than necessary for simple deployments:
might want to add this later on. Right now we support only PEP and PDPs in
same domain.


New work - Andrew Smith/Extreme

- Proposal for a COPS client MIB (draft-smith-cops-client-mib-00.txt).
Adopted as basis of WG item. See slides.
- Proposal for RSVP/SBM configuration (draft-smith-sbm-config-00.txt),
including configuration of policy rules there. This work belongs to ISSLL
group but COPS might be one possible way to transport this to PEP nodes.
Seems to be interest in pursuing this but needs to wait on ISSLL. See
slides.


Charter extensions - Abel Weinrib/Intel

Seems to be consensus that extending COPS for QoS policy provisioning (see
draft-sgai-cops-provisioning-00.txt and draft-mfine-cops-pib-00.txt) is a
good idea - see also slides presented by Keith McCloghrie to Policy WG,
available at ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/ftp/kzm/pub/pib.ppt. 

Proposed additions to WG charter to be circulated subject to agreement by
IESG:
  "In addition, the working group will define usage directives for use of
the
    COPS base protocol to support policy information exchange transactions
    within the framework being standardized in the policy framework Working
    Group. In particular, the group will address the following work items:

1. COPS usage for policy provisioning transactions ("COPS Usage"): The
working group will produce a standards-track RFC that specifies usage of
COPS for the support of policy information exchange transactions between a
PDP and its PEPs.

2. Object syntax for carrying policy provisioning information ("Object
Syntax"): The working group will produce a standards track RFC that
specifies the syntax of objects and their contents for carrying policy
information. The working group will specifically focus on syntax of objects
needed for carrying information related to QoS policy provisioning. 

This work explicitly excludes definition of semantics of policy provisioning
objects. Instead, it will rely on the definitions from the relevant working
groups such as DiffServ and ISSLL."


RAP WG Summary

Framework, base COPS protocol and RSVP extensions for use with it have
completed RAP and RSVP WG last calls. Framework draft still needs some
editorial work based on comments received (ed. since submitted). RSVP
Extensions draft has had some editorial clarifications based on comments
received during RSVP WG last call (will wait another week for RSVP WG last
last call). Will forward to AD for IETF last call shortly. Starting work on
COPS client MIB. Working group desires to work on simple extensions to COPS
base protocol to enable QoS provisioning, particularly of DiffServ routers -
this to be driven by requirements from DiffServ WG and to be closely tied to
DiffServ MIB work there. A possible WG charter revision will be worked out
shortly by co-chair and interested parties.