Minutes from the IESG Teleconference
October 7, 1993
Reported by: Steve Coya, Acting IESG Secretary
This report contains IESG meeting notes, positions and action items.
These minutes were compiled by the IETF Secretariat which is supported
by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NCR 8820945.
For more information please contact the IESG Secretary.
[email protected].
ATTENDEES
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Coya, Steve / CNRI
Crocker, Dave / SGI
Hinden, Robert / SUN
Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
Klensin, John / UNU
Knowles, Stev / FTP Software
Mankin, Allison / NRL
Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore
Rose, Marshall / DBC
IAB Liaison
Christian Huitema / INRIA
Regrets
Chapin, Lyman / BBN
Bradner, Scott / Harvard
Crocker, Steve / TIS
Gross, Philip / ANS
Yakov Rekhter / IBM
1. Approval of the Minutes for September 23 was deferred.
2. There were questions pertaining to old and current versions/RFCs of
running IP over ARCNET. RFC1051, the original ARCNET document, is
at STANDARD status. The status of RFC1201 was changed to HISTORIC in
May of 1993. There was a request received the following month (June
16, 1993) requesting that the IESG re-evaluate its decision, and
move 1051 to HISTORIC and return 1201 back to the standards track
and advance it. Stev Knowles reported that he did not believe there
was enough constituency to support this effort.
This item will be removed from the list of active items on the IESG
agenda.
3. Use of ISO CLNP in Tuba Envionments to Experimental was approved
pending a review by Allison.
ACTION: Allison to review document and report back to the IESG by
10/12. If review is favorable, send out the IESG notification.
4. The IESG approved the publication of "FTP Operation Over Big Address
Records (FOOBAR)" as an Experimental RFC.
5. The IESG approved the Stream Protocol (st2) Working Group
6. The IESG approved the Address Lifetime Expectations (ale) Working
Group once comments suggested by the IESG had been incorporated into
the charter.
ACTION: Coya to edit the charter and milestones based upon IESG
requests, sending the draft to the Allison and Scott for final review.
Once accepted, announce the formation of the Working Group.
7. The IESG reviewed and approved the reworded text of the Policy
statement pertaining to the handling of IPng documents and
specifications. Policy to be sent to the IETF as quickly as
possible.
8. After a brief discussion, the IESG approved the formation of a ATM
Informational BOF that will be held in Houston to provide an update as
to what is happening in the ATM world.
ACTION: Pistitello to inform Mark Laubach and tell him to request a BOF
slot from the Secretariat.
9. The IESG discussed the problems of reformatting, and editing a
document for publication as an RFC after it has been approved by the
IESG. Delays can occur due to exchanges between the RFC Editor and
the author, and these may be unknown to the IESG, and perhaps the WG
chair. Some authors claim that reformatting can change the way in
which a sentence or paragraph is read, and might result in ambiguity
or misimplementations. It was also reported that the RFC-Editors are
spending a great deal of time on the reformatting effort itself, but
due to time constraings this burden may have to shift back to the
document author.
POSITION: The IESG supports the procedure in which a document requiring
changes for publication is returned to the author, and that the
appropriate Area Directors AND the Working Group Chairs should be
copied on the notice. Further, when a document is reformatted and ready
to be resubmitted to the RFC-Editors, the Area Directors and WG Chair
are to be notified and provided a chance at reviewing, primarily to
confirm that technical details have remained the same.
10. Stev Knowles agreed with the PPPEXT chair that the new Novel IPX-WAN specification should be published along with the previously approved IPX documents.
ACTION: Knowles to contact Novell to obtain the document.
