FTP Extensions, 2nd edition (ftpext2)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2011-12-09

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Tony Hansen  <tony@att.com>
     Anthony Bryan  <anthonybryan@gmail.com>

 Applications Area Director(s):
     Pete Resnick  <presnick@qualcomm.com>
     Peter Saint-Andre  <stpeter@stpeter.im>

 Applications Area Advisor:
     Pete Resnick  <presnick@qualcomm.com>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:ftpext@ietf.org
     To Subscribe:      https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ftpext
     Archive:           http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ftpext/

Description of Working Group:

The Standard File Transfer Protocol specification in RFC 959
has been updated several times with command extensions of one
sort or another, including those based on the extension
mechanism of RFC 2389 (a complete list appears in RFC 5797 and
the corresponding IANA registry at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ftp-commands-extensions).

The following are active FTP related drafts:

  draft-bryan-ftp-hash
  draft-hethmon-mcmurray-ftp-hosts
  FTP extensions to support IPv4/IPv6 translation scenario
  draft-klensin-ftp-typeu-00 - FTP Extension for Internationalized Text

The Working Group will:
* Review and finalize drafts listed above.
* Review and confirm or reject errata of current FTP RFCs.
* Investigate the differences between FTP in theory
 (current RFCs) and practice, and recommend future work to align them.
 Any future work would require rechartering of the WG.

The Working Group's specification deliverables are:
* A document that specifies the HOST command (Proposed Standard).
* A document that specifies the HASH command (Proposed Standard).
* A document that specifies FTP extensions to support IPv4/IPv6
translation scenario.
* A document that specifies FTP extensions for Internationalized Text.

The Working Group must not introduce a new version of FTP, e.g.
an incompatible FTP 2.0.

 Goals and Milestones:

   Nov 2010       Submit 'File Transfer Protocol HOST Command for Virtual Hosts' 
                as working group item (draft-hethmon-mcmurray-ftp-hosts will be 
                used as a starting point) 

   Nov 2010       Submit 'File Transfer Protocol HASH Command for Cryptographic 
                Hashes' as working group item (draft-bryan-ftp-hash will be 
                used as a starting point) 

   Nov 2010       Submit 'FTP extensions to support IPv4/IPv6 translation' as 
                working group item (draft-liu-ftp64-extension will be used as a 
                starting point) 

   Dec 2010       Working group Last Call of HOST document 

   Jan 2011       Submit 'File Transfer Protocol HOST Command for Virtual Hosts' 
                to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard 

   Jan 2011       Working group Last Call of HASH document 

   Feb 2011       Submit 'File Transfer Protocol HASH Command for Cryptographic 
                Hashes' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard 

   Mar 2011       Working group Last Call of 'FTP extensions to support IPv4/IPv6 
                translation' document 

   Apr 2011       Submit 'FTP Extension for Internationalized Text' as working 
                group item 

   May 2011       Submit 'FTP extensions to support IPv4/IPv6 translation' to the 
                IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard 

   Jul 2011       Working group Last Call of 'FTP Extension for Internationalized 
                Text' 

   Aug 2011       Submit 'FTP Extension for Internationalized Text' to the IESG 
                for consideration as Proposed Standard 

   Sep 2011       Close or recharter 


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
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Nov 2010 Jul 2011   <draft-ietf-ftpext2-hash-02.txt>
                File Transfer Protocol HASH Command for Cryptographic Hashes 

Nov 2010 Dec 2011   <draft-ietf-ftpext2-hosts-05.txt>
                File Transfer Protocol HOST Command for Virtual Hosts 

Dec 2010 Jan 2012   <draft-ietf-ftpext2-ftp64-02.txt>
                FTP consideration for IPv4/IPv6 transition 

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.