INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG)
7 July 1994
Reported by: John Stewart, 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 at
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ATTENDEES
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Bradner, Scott / Harvard
Coya, Steve / CNRI
Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks
Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison)
Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
Klensin, John / UNU
Knowles, Stev / FTP Software
Mankin, Allison / NRL
Mockapetris, Paul / ISI
O'Dell, Mike / UUNET
Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison)
Rose, Marshall / DBC
Schiller, Jeff / MIT
Stewart, John / CNRI
Topolcic, Claudio / BBN
Regrets
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1. The minutes of the 23 June IESG teleconference were approved.
2. Protocol Actions
o The IESG approved moving "Definitions of Managed Objects for
SMDS Interfaces" <draft-ietf-ifmib-sipmib-01.txt> to Draft
Standard.
o The IESG approved moving "Definitions of Managed Objects for
ATM Management Version 8.0" <draft-ietf-atommib-atm-07.txt>
to Proposed Standard.
o The IESG approved moving "RDBMS-MIB"
<draft-ietf-rdbmsmib-mib-05.txt> to Proposed Standard.
o The IESG approved moving "Modem MIB"
<draft-ietf-modemmgt-mdmmib-03.txt> to Proposed Standard.
3. Working Group Informational Documents
o Allison Mankin has requested more time to review "Octet
sequences for upper-layer OSI to support basic
communications applications"
<draft-ietf-thinosi-cookbook-03.txt> for publication as
an Informational RFC. She will give the IESG an update
at their Friday meeting in Toronto.
4. Working Group Actions
o The IESG approved the creation of the Mail Extensions
Working Group (MAILEXT) in the Applications Area.
5. Working Group Chairs Workshop
Erik Huizer sent e-mail to all working group chairs asking
them their opinion on what the future of the "Working Group
Chair Workshop" should be. The immediate result is that
Sue Hares will do a training session in Toronto on Wednesday
with attendance by [at least] Erik and Paul Mockapetris.
It was noted that this training session does not take the
place of area-specific training by area directors. The
meeting will be open to everyone (i.e., not just chairs).
For the future, the workshop will be expanded; it was noted
that the workshop is good instruction on how to participate
in the IETF process, so is valuable for more than just
chairs. Also in the future, a closed working group chair
"get-together" will be arranged.
ACTION(Stewart): Place working group chair get-together on the
agenda for the IESG meeting following Toronto.
6. Internet Middleware Area BOF (IMABOF)
Stev Knowles will chair IMABOF in Toronto.
ACTION(Coya): Coordinate with Erik Huizer and Stev on scheduling
IMABOF.
7. ISN's AUP document
A new version of this document is forthcoming.
8. RFCs 1597 and 1627
RFC 1597 documented, in an Informational RFC, the mechanism
of numbering private networks with non-globally unique IP
addresses; to support this mechanism, IANA allocated three
blocks of IP addresses (one in each Class A, B, and C).
RFC 1627 was written as an "opposing point of view" response.
The IESG discussed several different issues brought up by
this event, but decided that the optimal solution was already
under way: both sets of authors are working on an update to
RFC 1597 which more clearly states the disadvantages of its
approach.
9. IAB Workshop in Fall on Integrated Information Architecture
The workshop will be 12-14 October in the Washington, DC
area. In addition to the IAB, the attendance will include
appropriate IESG members (Erik Huizer, John Klensin, Paul
Mockapetris, Jeff Schiller, and Joyce Reynolds) and other
community experts. The workshop will be announced on the
IETF-Announce mailing list in the form of a "call for
papers" so all parties have an opportunity to contribute to
the agenda.
10. ANSI/IEEE
ANSI is interested in being involved with the standards that
will be used in the NII. Vint Cerf, as ISOC President, and
Paul Mockapetris, as IETF/IESG Chair, will attend an ANSI
meeting on this topic on Tuesday 11 July. The day before,
ANSI will be giving a presentation to Paul on how the IEEE
uses the ANSI standards mechanism. Paul asked if others
would be interested in attending. John Klensin and Allison
Mankin will talk to Paul off-line about attending.
11. Next steps for IPng
The IPng Area Directors updated the IESG on their progress
and on what they plan to do in Toronto. A single-topic IESG
teleconference on IPng will be held on 14 July.
