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Concluded WG FTP Extensions, 2nd edition (ftpext2)

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WG Name FTP Extensions, 2nd edition
Acronym ftpext2
Area Applications Area (app)
State Concluded
Charter charter-ietf-ftpext2-01 Approved
Document dependencies
Additional resources Issue tracker, Wiki
Personnel Chairs Anthony Bryan, Tony Hansen
Area Director Pete Resnick
Mailing list Address ftpext@ietf.org
To subscribe https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ftpext
Archive https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ftpext

Final Charter for 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.

Milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Sep 2011 Close or recharter
Aug 2011 Submit 'FTP Extension for Internationalized Text' to the IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard
Jul 2011 Working group Last Call of 'FTP Extension for Internationalized Text'
May 2011 Submit 'FTP extensions to support IPv4/IPv6 translation' to the IESG for consideration as Proposed Standard
Apr 2011 Submit 'FTP Extension for Internationalized Text' as working group item
Mar 2011 Working group Last Call of 'FTP extensions to support IPv4/IPv6 translation' document
Feb 2011 Submit 'File Transfer Protocol HASH Command for Cryptographic Hashes' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard
Jan 2011 Working group Last Call of HASH document
Jan 2011 Submit 'File Transfer Protocol HOST Command for Virtual Hosts' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard
Dec 2010 Working group Last Call of HOST document
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)
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 'File Transfer Protocol HOST Command for Virtual Hosts' as working group item (draft-hethmon-mcmurray-ftp-hosts will be used as a starting point)