At 7:33 AM 1/28/94 -0800, Russ_Housley(_dot_)McLean_CSD(_at_)xerox(_dot_)com
wrote:
Rob:
I have not seen the whole report.
Do you know where I can get the whole thing on the net?
Russ
Russ,
I mentioned the security section of the FIRP report because I thought the
folowing was recopied to either pem-dev or psrg-interest, but just in case:
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The Federal Internetworking Requirements Panel (FIRP) was established by
the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to reassess
Federal requirements for open systems networks and to recommend policy on
the Government's use of networking standards. The panel was chartered to
recommend actions which the Federal Government can take to address the
short- and long-term issues of internetworking and convergence of
networking protocols - particularly the Internet Protocol Suite (IPS) and
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) protocol suite and, when appropriate,
proprietary protocols. The panel was created at the request of the Office
of Management and Budget in collaboration with the Federal Networking
Council and the Federal Information Resources Management Policy Council.
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 17:03:42 -0500 (EST) Sender:
ietf-request(_at_)IETF(_dot_)CNRI(_dot_)Reston(_dot_)VA(_dot_)US From: Tassos
Nakassis
<nakassis(_at_)osi(_dot_)ncsl(_dot_)nist(_dot_)gov> Subject: Availability of
the Fed.
Internetworking Requirements Panel Report To:
ietf(_at_)CNRI(_dot_)Reston(_dot_)VA(_dot_)US
Cc: iso(_at_)nic(_dot_)ddn(_dot_)mil,
isoc-interest(_at_)relay(_dot_)sgi(_dot_)com Status: RO
This is to let you know that the Draft Report of the Federal
Internetworking Requirements Panel is
available at (and from) NIST. The text that follows includes:
1) a copy of the text NIST submitted to the Federal Register
(published on 1/11/94); this text was drafted about a month ago and I would
encourage you to read the subsequent text for clarifications.
2) additional information on how to get the document 3) additional
information on how to submit comments 4) NOTES (including correction of a
typo in the Register)
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1) The text that appeared in the Federal Register
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
[Docket No. 931246-3346]
REVIEW OF DRAFT REPORT OF THE
FEDERAL INTERNETWORKING REQUIREMENTS PANEL (FIRP)
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce the availability, after
January 14, 1994, of the draft report of the Federal Internetworking
Requirements Panel (FIRP). This panel was named by NIST to review open
systems network requirements and to recommend policies on the use of
networking standards by the Federal government. Organized in cooperation
with the Federal Networking Council and the Federal Information Resources
Management Policy Council, the FIRP has been considering issues related to
interoperability requirements, security, ease of use, national and
international connectivity, and standards maintenance for the Internet
Protocol Suite (IPS), Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) specifications,
and proprietary networking protocols.
Prior to submitting its final report to NIST, the FIRP solicits the views
of industry, the public, and Federal, State and local governments on the
draft report. The purpose of this notice is to solicit such views.
The draft report will be available after January 14, 1994 and can be
obtained in any of the following ways:
Anonymous file transfer can be achieved through FTP, FTAM and Gopher.
Electronic files are named draft-firp-report.asc and reportO.fir. For
anonymous FTP:
1. ftp to osi.ncsl.nist.gov (129.6.48.100) 2. respond to the "login:"
prompt with user name "anonymous"
(do not type the quotes)
3. respond to the "password:" prompt with your E-mail address. 4. you are
now logged in. Use "cd" to change directory to
./pub/firp. Use "ls" or "dir" to get directory listings. Use "get" to
transfer a file.
For anonymous FTAM:
Paddr =
{1,1,1,47:0005:80:005A00:0000:0001:E137:080020079EFC:00}
userid = anon, no password, realstore = unix
The corresponding "ISODE isoentities" entry is: osi.ncsl.nist.gov filestore
NULL \
#1/#1/#1/NS+47000580005a0000000001e137080020079efc00
Questions regarding these services should be sent via SMTP mail to
staff(_at_)osi(_dot_)ncsl(_dot_)nist(_dot_)gov(_dot_) An electronic mail
request for the draft report
may be sent to: firp-draft(_at_)osi(_dot_)ncsl(_dot_)nist(_dot_)gov(_dot_)
Paper copies of the draft report are available from Joan Wyrwa, Technology
Building, Room B217, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; telephone: (301)
975-3643; facsimile: (301) 590-0932.
DATES: Comments on the draft report must be received on or before February
18, 1994.
ADDRESSES: Written comments concerning the draft report should be sent to:
Anastase Nakassis; Acting Chief, Systems and Network Architecture Division;
ATTN: Draft Report of FIRP; Technology Building, Room B217; National
Institute of Standards and Technology; Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Comments may
also be sent by electronic mail to
firp-comments(_at_)osi(_dot_)ncsl(_dot_)nist(_dot_)gov(_dot_) Please
limit written comments to five printed pages or less. Electronic comments
should not exceed five pages when printed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anastase Nakassis, National Institute of
Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, telephone: (301)
975-3632. E-mail:
firp(_dot_)staff(_at_)osi(_dot_)nscl(_dot_)nist(_dot_)gov(_dot_)
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2) Additional information on how to get the document
2.1 E-mail copies of the report (or its executive summary) can
also be obtained as follows:
Send e-mail to mail-server(_at_)osi(_dot_)ncsl(_dot_)nist(_dot_)gov with the
following message
(the Subject field is ignored):
FILE filename
where filename is one of the following filenames:
/pub/firp/draft-firp-report.asc
(if the full report is desired) or
/pub/firp/draft-firp-summary.asc for the executive summary.
2.2) Additional files
Formatted versions of the report and of its executive summary are available
through anonymous file transfer. These files have the following suffixes:
doc for Microsoft Word for Windows, 2.0c ps for PostScript
rtf for Rich Text Format
wp for Word Perfect 5.1
Consult file "index" (in /pub/firp) for additional information.
3) Submission of comments
An additional mail address is provided for those who would like to see
their comments archived in a publicly available file. Comments sent to
firp-comments-public(_at_)osi(_dot_)ncsl(_dot_)nist(_dot_)gov will be archived
in the in the
/pub/firp directory under the file name firp-public-comments.asc (and
firp-pc0.txt for those requiring shorter file names). This file can be
obtained in the same electronic fashion as described above (ftp or mail as
in 2.1 with filename=firp-public-comments.asc). Comments sent to
firp-comments(_at_)osi(_dot_)ncsl(_dot_)nist(_dot_)gov will not appear in this
file. All submitted
comments will be forwarded to the panel (FIRP).
NOTES: The pagination of the printed report depends on the
fonts and printer used. It is highly recommended that references to the
report use section and subsection numbers (rather than page numbers) to
identify the referenced text.
In the same vein, the references to pages that appear in the table of
contents hold true for the report that the editor generated and may not
correspond to the pages you will print.
The report is between 40 and 50+ pages long (the flat ascii file is about
150K long and the postscript version about 450K). The size of formatted
versions varies between 150K and 200K. The size of the executive summary
varies between 15K (ascii) and 45k (PS).
Mail address firp-staff has been created as an alias for firp.staff and
either address can be used. THE CORRECT ADDRESS is
firp-staff(_at_)osi(_dot_)ncsl(_dot_)nist(_dot_)gov(_dot_) CLEARLY, the "nscl"
in the Federal Register
notice is a TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR.
NIST personnel will read messages sent to firp-draft and will respond to
requests. This mailbox has been established for accommodating requests that
require human intervention (chiefly, e-mail requests for paper copies).