Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)
December 30, 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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Bradner, Scott / Harvard
Coya, Steve / CNRI
Crocker, Dave / SGI
Crocker, Steve / TIS
Gross, Phillip / ANS
Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
Klensin, John / UNU
Knowles, Stev / FTP Software
Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
Piscitello, Dave / Core Competence
Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison)
Rose, Marshall / DBC
Regrets
Chapin, Lyman / BBN
Hinden, Robert / SUN
Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison)
Mankin, Allison / NRL
1. The minutes of the December 16 meeting were approved. Coya to
place into public archives.
2. The IESG approved the publication of "Classical IP and ARP over
ATM" as a Proposed Standard. It was asserted that while this has
been approved for the standards track, this document is technically
deficient as it may not scale well in the future, and will not move
to DRAFT status without changes. Coya to send announcement to the
IETF List and the RFC-Editor.
3. The IESG approved the publication of "PPP LCP Extensions" as a
Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement to the IETF List and
the RFC-Editor.
4. The IESG approved the publication of "Evolution of the Interfaces
Group of MIB-II" as a proposed standard. The IESG also decided to
reclassify RFC 1229 as Historic. Coya to send announcement to the
IETF List and the RFC-Editor.
5. The IESG approved the elevation of RFC 1356 "Multiprotocol
Interconnect on X.25 and ISDN in the Packet Mode" to DRAFT
standard. Coya to send announcement to the IETF List and the
RFC-Editor.
6. The IESG approved the creation of the ALE Working Group in the IPNG
Area. Coya to send announcement to the IETF list.
Note: Announcement can not be sent until the administrative
information (list name, archive location, etc.) is provided.
7. Stev Knowles was selected as the IESG Liaison to the IAB/IESG
Nominating Committee. Coya to convey this information to the Chair
of the Nominating Commitee.
8. The IESG discussed the SNPP Informational RFC-to-be and the text
that was cirulated by e-mail was tolerable and will be forwarded to
the RFC Editor.
9. The IESG then reviewed e-mail messages pertaining to the text that
might be added to RFCs conveying the opinion of the IESG. The
revised text sent by Jon Postel was deemed acceptable, with the
notation that all WG references be explicit. There was another set
of text that explained the purpose and need for including such
statemets which was also approved by the IESG. Phill Gross to
incorporate this explanatory text into the revision of 1310bis.
10. There was some discussion on what steps should be taken when RFCs
are not accurate, up-to-date, or reflect current practices, but the
protocols themselves are widely used. There was no consensus
reached during the teleconference, but the topic can (and probably
will) re-appear on the IESG Mailing list.
11. The IESG members individually reviewed the status and plans for
some of their Working Groups.
12. It was suggested that the Host Requirements Document might be out
of date as it does not include references to CIDR.
13. The message suggesting a set of Default IETF Meeting sites was
discussed. Though no consensus was reached wrt the suggestions for
implementing, the main point of agreement was that IETF meetings
need to be scheduled further out, at least 2 years.
