This is a rough draft - Megan 04/21/92 Telnet minutes: Steve Alexander/INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation The Telnet working group met the morning of Tuesday, March 17, 1992. An initial agenda of possible topics included: o Authentication Option o Environment Option o Remote Flow Control Option o Encryption Option A discussion of authentication was held. It was decided that the authentication drafts should be put forth as experimental RFCs after some minor editorial changes. Steve Alexander will edit the drafts and send them on to be published. The changes include removing several authentication types from the list in the main document and specifying the Kerberos V4 authenticator in section 2 of the Kerberos IV draft. Dave Borman has made a minor extension to remote flow control to allow any character to restart output. It was decided that Dave will send this document to the IESG on his own, since this has not been discussed by the working group in detail and the change is straightforward. The Environment option was discussed in detail. Dave Borman explained the history behind the VAR and USERVAR separation. The usefulness of variables such as PRINTER was debated. Some group members raised the issue of tying the environment option to the authentication option; it was decided that they did not need to be tied together. It was decided not to add ACCT/JOB fields to the authentication option. The group has decided to put the environment option forward as a Proposed Standard after some clarification of VAR & USERVAR in section V. Steve Alexander will make the changes and submit the document. No serious discussion of encryption was held. Steve volunteered to begin looking at merging encryption with authentication as discussed in Santa Fe. Action Items: - Steve Alexander revise authentication documents and submit as experimental revise environment document and submit as proposed look at merging encryption/authentication - Dave Borman submit remote flow control option as a proposed standard