ONC Remote Procedure Call (ONCRPC)

Charter 

Chair(s)

      Raj Srinivasan:  raj.srinivasan@eng.sun.com

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Description of Working Group

     The purpose of the Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call
     Working Group is to update the RFCs that describe ONC RPC to
     reflect the current state of the deployed and accepted
     technology, and submit them for Internet standardization.
     ONC RPC is currently described in ``RPC: Remote Procedure Call
     Protocol Specification Version 2'' (RFC 1057), and ``XDR:
     External Data Representation Standard'' (RFC 1014).
     The focus of the ONC-RPC Working Group is to document and
     standardize the current ONC RPC protocols.  It is not the
     intent of this working group to develop extensions to these
     protocols.  However, once these tasks are completed,
     discussions of future enhancements are expected.  These
     discussions could lead to a follow on working group.

     Background:

     ONC RPC is a Remote Procedure Call technology that originated
     in Sun Microsystems in the early 1980s.  ONC RPC was modelled
     on Xerox's Courier RPC protocols.  It has been widely deployed
     on platforms from most major workstation vendors.  It has been
     implemented on MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT,
     Mac, VMS, MVS, and practically all flavors of UNIX, among
     others.  Sun Microsystems plans to give the ownership of ONC
     RPC and change control over the ONC RPC protocols to the IETF.

Goals and Milestones

Done       Post XDR: External Data Representation Standard (an update of
           RFC 1014) as an Internet-Draft.

Done       Post RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version
           2 (update of RFC 1057) as an Internet-Draft.

May 1994   Submit XDR document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed
           Standard

May 1994   Submit RPC document to IESG for consideration as a Proposed
           Standard


Internet-Drafts

    ``RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version
    2'', 05/31/1994, R. Srinivasan
    <draft-ietf-oncrpc-rpcv2-01.txt>

    ``XDR: External Data Representation Standard'', 09/30/1994, R.
    Srinivasan <draft-ietf-oncrpc-xdr-01.txt>

    ``Authentication Mechanisms for ONC RPC'', 05/31/1994, R.
    Srinivasan <draft-ietf-oncrpc-auth-00.txt>

    ``Binding Protocols for ONC RPC Version 2'', 06/01/1994, R.
    Srinivasan <draft-ietf-oncrpc-bind-00.txt>