DoD gets its act together (??)

[Bob Braden]

Hi. I'll bet you have forgotten you are still on this
mailing list. (LOOK OUT, HERE COME THE MAIL BOUNCES...!)

Danny Cohen just brought to my attention a bulletin from the DoD
that lists a set of new DOD Standardized Profiles (DSPs). These are
intended to replace the old Mil Stds.

They are:
MIL-STD-2045-14502 Internet Transport Profile for DoD Communications
MIL-STD-2045-17504 Internet File Transfer Profile for DoD Communications
MIL-STD-2045-17505 Internet Domain Name Service (DNS) Profile for DoD Comm'n
MIL-STD-2045-17506 Internet Remote Login Profile for DoD Communications,
MIL-STD-2045-17507 Internet Network Management Profile for DoD Communications

The first one covers IP and (?) TCP.

Has anyone read these? Are they reasonable? Is the DoD digging
themselves out of a 10-year old pit, or are they digging themselves
in deeper...?

Bob Braden

[ba...@cove.mitre.org]

I haven't reviewed them since the very first batch of drafts, which
I hated. Walt Lazear *briefly* looked at the next batch, 9 months later
(about a year ago?) and thought they looked reasonable. I just
received a draft DSP MIL-STD for RFC 1006. I think it is less mature
than the others you are mentioning, and there are yet others in the
mill somewhere. Anyway the draft MIL-STD-2045-14503 has a number of
editorial glitches and one oddity that I think may be a technical bogon,
but I haven't tried hard to figure it out, and it looks like it might
be harmless even if wrong.

Don't assume that I'm systematically reviewing these things; I'm not.
I don't know where, if anywhere, they get in-depth review. If someone
would want to be added to distribution for these things they should
send an email to Greg Scott, sco...@cc.ims.disa.mil. The only
"mainstream vendor" I've spotted on the list is Sun (Geoff Mulligan).
There are half a dozen other names that I recognize as people who could
provide some constructive review, if in fact they read the mail, which
I wouldn't take for granted.

There was talk of writing a MIL-STD router profile. That concerns me
a lot (DTMP/Logicon writing Router Requirements before the IETF does).
I hope this idea died. Someone should be worrying about this.

/Bill