Virtual Tunneling Protocol BOF (vtp) ------------------------------------ Charter Last Modified: 11/26/1996 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Pat Calhoun Internet Area Director(s): Thomas Narten Erik Nordmark Internet Area Advisor: Thomas Narten Mailing Lists: General Discussion: To Subscribe: Archive: Description of Working Group: This is to announce the VTP (Virtual Tunneling Protocol) BOF at the 37th IETF in San Jose. The BOF will take place Wednesday at 9:00. The VTP protocol may be used by a service provider to offer Virtual Private Network (VPN) services and dial access services to corporate home networks. This protocol can also be used to construct a corporate VPN by establishing VTP tunnels between routers at the branch and corporate offices. In order to provide a true "multi-protocol" VPN technology, it is necessary to perform some form of encapsulation and tunneling in order to mask the private address space being used. This technology must be sufficiently secure in order to protect the network resources from outside attack. There exists some basic form of "multi-protocol" VPN technology today by some manufacturers, however these are either very static in nature or are proprietary solutions. The intent of this document is to establish a standard, dynamic tunnel establishment scheme which require minimal configuration in order to ease deployment of such products. VTP uses extensions to existing protocols such as GRE and Mobile-IP, which allow for easy implementations. In addition, VTP specifies an optional kerberos-like key management scheme for key distribution, which allows for multi-provider environments. However IPSEC is recommended as the underlying security mechanism. Goals and Milestones: Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: None to date.