Operational Requirements Area Directors o Scott Bradner: sob@harvard.edu o Mike O'Dell: mo@uunet.uu.net Area Summary reported by Scott Bradner/Harvard and Mike O'Dell/UUNET Meetings of four Operational Requirements Area working groups and three BOFs were held during the 30th IETF meeting in Toronto, Canada. Guidelines and Recommendations for Incident Processing BOF (GRIP) The GRIP BOF met to discuss forming a working group which would produce guidelines and recommendations for use when dealing with security related incidents. The scope was to produce recommendations suitable for use by response teams (RTs), Internet users and vendors of hardware and software products. The participants of the BOF agreed that there was sufficient interest in the issues discussed to establish a working group. The proposed co-chairs, Barbara Frasier (CERT) and Louis Mamakos (UUNET) are completing their draft charter and will be forwarding it for approval soon. Internet Accounting 2 BOF (ACCT2) The BOF appears to have gone reasonably well and the prospective co-chairs, Nevil Brownlee and Cyndi Mills, are working on a charter after discussions with both Operational Requirements Area co-Directors. Assuming they get closure on the revised charter it will be forwarded for approval. Testing BOF (TESTING) The US DoD is starting a conformance testing program to support procurement of IP technology networking hardware. They are developing testing profiles, verification suites and testing tools. At this BOF, Lee Chastain described their work developing the tester software and provided an (unofficial) overview of the conformance testing program. While it became evident that there is probably insufficient interest in a pure testing working group, there was considerable interest in tracking these efforts. Further, the discussions made it clear that a major revision of the Router Requirements and Host Requirement documents was a mandatory exercise for the IETF. Benchmarking Methodolgy Working Group (BMWG) Meeting was cancelled. CIDR Deployment Working Group (CIDRD) Erik-Jan Bos and Tony Bates each presented statistics reflecting the progress of CIDR. The conclusion is that CIDR has been helping to reduce the growth of the global routing table. A number of open CIDR issues were discussed: Why are some ASs still not playing? What can be done to encourage them? Is it worth aggregating ``old'' nets? Should specific CIDR address allocation procedures be recommended? The need to continue the working group was discussed and it was concluded that since there are still tasks that the group should be involved in, it should continue. Generic Internet Service Description Working Group (GISD) The history of the GISD effort was reviewed and a proposed new charter was discussed. David Sitman assumed the mantle of GISD Working Group Chair from Tony Bates. A revised outline for the GISD document was proposed and discussed and a call for volunteers was issued. The outline revision is intended to make it more likely that the working group can bring the document to closure in a timely fashion. Network Status Reports Working Group (NETSTAT) Network status presentations were made by Scott Bradner (CoREN), Tim Seaver (NC-REN), Sue Hares (NSFNET transition), Guy Almes (ANS), and Eric Carroll (CA*NET). Operational Statistics Working Group (OPSTAT) The Operational Statics Working Group made another pass over the draft document addressing concerns raised in mailing list discussions. The general discussion touched on the status of existing draft implementations, whether the information format is for storage or just interchange (very thoughful discussion), and some revisions to make the specification more widely useful for network event recording as well as aggregated statistics. The group appears to be making good progress.