INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG)
11 August 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
Mankin, Allison / NRL
Mockapetris, Paul / ISI
O'Dell, Mike / UUNET
Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison)
Rose, Marshall / DBC
Stewart, John / CNRI
Topolcic, Claudio / BBN
Regrets
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Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison)
Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
Klensin, John / MCI
Knowles, Stev / FTP Software
Schiller, Jeff / MIT
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)
Draft Agenda for the 11 August 1994 IESG Teleconference
1. The IESG approved the minutes for 23 June, 7 July, and 14 July.
2. Protocol Actions
o The IESG approved "Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux)"
<draft-cameron-tmux-03.txt> for the status of Proposed
Standard.
3. Working Group Informational Documents
o The IESG recommends that the RFC Editor publish "Octet
sequences for upper-layer OSI to support basic
communications applications"
<draft-ietf-thinosi-cookbook-03.txt> as an Informational
RFC.
o The IESG recommends that the RFC Editor publish "K-12
Internetworking Guidelines"
<draft-ietf-isn-k12-guide-01.txt,ps> as an Informational
RFC.
4. RFC Editor Actions
o The IESG has no objections to the RFC Editor publishing
"The Document Architecture for the Cornell Digital
Library" as an Informational RFC.
5. Working Group Actions
o The charter of the Inter-domain Routing Working Group (IDR)
was approved. This group represents the merging of the BGP
and IPIDRP Working Groups.
o The charter of the New Internet Routing Architecture Working
Group (NIMROD) was approved.
6. Management Issues
o There will be an "IP6 walk-through" multicasted on the MBone
on 22 August. Presenters will be primarily at Xerox PARC and
MIT; there will be an additional conference room at ISI.
o IBM asked Scott Bradner if they could convene a BOF on their |
MPTN (Multi-Protocol Transport Networking) at the next IETF |
meeting. The IESG had no objections. |
o Interop has offered to give meeting space to the IESG at no
charge at its INTEROP show in Las Vegas 27-31 March 1995.
Interop will advertise it, but the IESG has complete control
over the speakers, content, etc. The IESG agreed to accept
the offer and will decide on the format later.
ACTION(Rose): Send tentative conference agenda to the IESG to help
the IESG in scheduling.
o Interop has scheduled their Japan conference in the summer of
1995 for the same week as the Stockholm IETF meeting. The
IETF Secretariat is investigating if the Stockholm meeting
can be rescheduled.
o Steve Coya has been trying, with some, albeit little, success,
to reach Motorola to see what they think their patent covers
relative to PPPEXT's compression negotiation protocol. The
IESG cannot do anything with the protocol, with respect to the
standards track, without assurances from Motorola.
o The negotiations with Sun over bringing RPC and XDR into the IETF
have, to date, been between SunSoft and the IETF. Now SunSoft's
patent lawyer has gotten involved, and the situation is even more
complex. The topic will be on the agenda for the next meeting.
ACTION(Stewart): Put Sun/ONC issue on next agenda.
o The IESG decided that it should consider moving EGP and
"Requirements for Internet Gateways" (RFC 1009) to Historic.
ACTION(Halpern,Rekhter): Do write-up for moving EGP and "router
requirements" to Historic.
This once again brought up the question of the status of host
and router requirements.
ACTION(Bradner,Knowles,O'Dell,Topolcic): Discuss how to motivate the
Router Requirements Working Group to complete its charter.
o The IESG agreed that titles of Informational RFCs should not
imply any kind of status or applicability.
ACTION(Mockapetris): Communicate the above to the RFC Editor.
