IETF STEERING GROUP (IESG)
REPORT FROM THE TELECONFERENCE
August 17th, 1992
Reported by: Greg Vaudreuil, IESG Secretary
This report contains IESG meeting notes, positions and action items.
For more information please contact the IESG Secretary.
[email protected]
Attendees
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Borman, David / Cray Research
Crocker, Dave / TBO
Crocker, Steve / TIS
Coya, Steve / CNRI
Davin, Chuck / MIT
Gross, Philip / ANS
Hinden, Robert / SUN
Hobby, Russ / UC-DAVIS
Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore
Stockman, Bernard / SUNET/NORDUnet
Vaudreuil, Greg / CNRI
Regrets
Almquist, Philip / Consultant
Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
Agenda
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1) Administrivia
o Announcements
o Bash the agenda
o Approval of Minutes
- 8/10/92
o Next Meeting
2) Protocol Actions
o PPP Authentication
o Van Jacobsen Header Compression
o Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots
o String Representation of Distinguished Names
o Use of X.500 for User Friendly Naming
o Ethernet MIB
3) Technical Management Issues
o IAB/IETF Process Working Group
o OSPF recommendation.
Minutes
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1) Administivia
o Bash the agenda.
The agenda was abreviated to allow for expanded discussion of the
IETF/IAB process Working Group.
o Minutes of the 10th.
The Minutes of August 10th were approved.
o Next Meeting
The next IESG meetings was set for August 24th, 12:00-2:00 ET.
2) Protocol Actions
o PPP Authentication
The current hold up for PPP Authentication is the specification of
the character set for the comment field in the authentication
messages. The IESG is concerned that the IAB and Working Group are
on a request-change cycle which has no end in sight.
ACTION: SCrocker -- Send a note to Steve Kent listing all known
outstanding issues and attempt to reach closure.
o TCP/IP Header Compression
There has been no progress in clarifying the needed changes and
getting a new document published.
o OSI Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots
There was no objection to the publication of the OSI Naming
Guidelines for Directory Pilots document. There is minor
controversy over the directory scheme. This proposal is different
from the North American Directory Forum (NADF) proposal, but it is a
reasonable suggestion for uniform naming an Internet directory
system and should be published.
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Send a notification to Jon Postel to publish the
Internet Draft "Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots" as an
Information RFC.
o OSI String Representation of Distinguished Names (Proposed Standard)
The IESG is still waiting for a new version of this document
reflecting changes requested during the last call.
o User Friendly Naming using X.500
This document has been revised at the request of the IAB. It is now
intended to be published as an Experimental protocol rather than a
Proposed Standard. Because this has been the subject of continuing
dialogue, the Area Directors for OSI have requested that a last call
be issued.
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Issue a Last Call for User Friendly Naming to
Experimental status.
o Ethernet MIB
The Ethernet MIB is on hold waiting for a revised version. Several
MIB objects were requested to be deleted from the MIB rather than
deprecated. The IESG agreed that this was reasonable and has asked
for a revision.
3) Technical Management Issues
o Process Working Group.
Steve Crocker presented a draft charter of the IAB/IETF Process
Working Group. This charter expanded on the charge given the IESG
by the ISOC president to look at the IAB/IESG/IETF relationship in
fundamental ways. The IESG discussed this with the IAB on mailing
lists and agreed that while some of these additional topics may come
up in the course of the Working Groups life, the initial charter
should directly address the charge of the ISOC president.
ACTION: SCrocker -- Refine the Process Working Group charter and
re-submit it to the IESG.
o OSPF Applicability Statement
Phill Gross updated the IESG recommendation to the IAB to smooth
over some of the more dated material. This recommendation was
reviewed by the IAB and was agreed to send it to the RFC Editor for
publication as an Informational Document after posting as an
Internet Draft. It is expected that the IAB Applicability Statement
for OSPF will reference this document.
ACTION: Gross -- Post the revised IESG OSPF AS recommendation to the
IAB as an Internet Draft
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- After a period of review, send the OSPF
recommendation to the RFC Editor for publication as an Informational
RFC.
