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.

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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    [email protected]
Jim Barnes               [email protected]
J. Nevil Brownlee        [email protected]
Peter Cameron            [email protected]
Richard Graveman         [email protected]
Marco Hernandez          [email protected]
Stephen Kent             [email protected]
Andrew Knutsen           [email protected]
Klaus-Peter Kossakowski  [email protected]
John Linn                [email protected]
Kim Chr.  Madsen         [email protected]
Clifford Neuman          [email protected]
Timon Sloane             [email protected]



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