Network Working Group                                          G. Huston
Request for Comments: 1690                                        AARNet
Category: Informational                                      August 1994


                 Introducing the Internet Engineering
                      and Planning Group (IEPG)

Status of this Memo

  This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
  does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
  this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

  This memo introduces the IEPG to the Internet Community.  The IEPG is
  an Internet Service Operators' forum, intended to assist Service
  Operators to coordinate in operational aspects of managing Internet
  services.

1.  Charter of the Internet Engineering and Planning Group

  Domain of Activity

     The Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG) is a group
     principally comprised of Internet Service Operators.

  Goal

     The common objective of the group is to promote a technically
     coordinated operational environment of the Global Internet.

  Activities

     The activities of the IEPG will be within the following areas:

    -  To facilitate the operations and management of Global Internet
       services,

    -  To promote the introduction of new Internet services within the
       Global Internet, and

    -  Liaison with related Internet Operations groups and liaison with
       technical development groups.

     Explicitly the IEPG is not a group which will conduct activities
     of a technical developmental nature.



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RFC 1690      The Internet Engineering and Planning Group    August 1994


  Constituency

     Membership of the IEPG shall be open. Any individual may subscribe
     to the IEPG mailing list, and all meeting announcements, meeting
     agenda, meetings and meeting reports shall be made openly
     available.

  Reporting

     The IEPG will maintain an archive of material available using
     World Wide Web (WWW) access tools. The location of this WWW
     archive, and this charter will be disseminated to the Internet
     community through an Informational RFC.

2. IEPG membership and IEPG mailing list

  Membership of the IEPG is open. Any member of the Internet community
  may join the IEPG mailing list. The mailing list is "[email protected]".
  Anyone may join the list by subscribing to "[email protected]".

3. Archive of IEPG material

  All IEPG material is archived at "http://iepg.org/iepg".

4. Security Considerations

  Security issues are not discussed in this memo.

5. Author's Address

  Geoff Huston
  Australian Academic and Research Network
  GPO Box 1142
  Canberra  ACT  2601
  Australia

  Phone: +61 6 249 3385
  Fax: +61 6 249 1369
  EMail: [email protected]












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