CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Jim Barnes/Xylogics Minutes of the Network Access Server Requirements Working Group (NASREQ) Agenda o Introduction and brief review o Discussion of revised charter o Review of goals and schedule o NAS ``helper'' subgroup report o Discussion of latest nasreq draft o Request for volunteer writers The NASREQ Working Group met in Amsterdam with a small number of attendees. Lacking a critical mass of participants, the discussion was limited and the meeting brief. The latest revision of the nasreq charter was briefly discussed. One question was whether the NAS is only being viewed as the entry point into a network or whether the requirements for a NAS should also reflect that the NAS could be a gateway out of a network to the outside world. Along this same theme, there was a later question about whether there were any NAS dialout requirements (for example to provide a PPP dialout link on demand). During the discussion of accounting, two relevant points were raised: 1. The accounting group is in the process of being restarted. Setting up a subgroup with representatives from both NASREQ and the accounting group to exchange information was viewed as being a good idea. 2. It was noted that there is now a Modem Management Working Group (MODEMMGT). One of the areas they are investigating is what accounting statistics would be useful for modems. Perhaps there is some common area that is interesting to both the NASREQ Working Group and the MODEMMGT Working Group. In the authentication area, it was noted that the GSSAPI and Kerberos V5 documents have been recommended for Proposed Standard. The authentication ``helper'' subgroup had little news to report. A draft document is still targeted for the November IETF meeting. Cliff Neuman relayed a request from the Authorization and Access Control Working Group (AAC) for the NASREQ group to provide AAC with information on the NASREQ authorization requirements. 1 A request for volunteers to help write some sections of the NASREQ document was made. One person expressed interest in helping to do some of the writing. Attendees Mohammad Alaghebandan mohammad_alaghebandan@3com.com Jim Barnes barnes@xylogics.com J. Nevil Brownlee nevil@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz Peter Cameron cameron@xylint.co.uk Richard Graveman rfg@ctt.bellcore.com Marco Hernandez marco@mh-slip.cren.edu Stephen Kent kent@bbn.com Andrew Knutsen andrewk@sco.com Klaus-Peter Kossakowski Kossakow@informatik.uni-hamburg.de John Linn linn@gza.com Kim Chr. Madsen kimcm@ic.dk Clifford Neuman bcn@isi.edu Timon Sloane timon@timon.com 2