INPG Directorate Teleconference
                              November 22, 1993

        Reported by:  Steve Coya

This report contains IPNG Directorate 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.

ATTENDEES
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Scott Bradner / Harvard
Allison Mankin / NRL


Steve Bellovin / AT&T
Jim Bound / DEC
Ross Callon / Wellfleet
Brian Carpenter / CERN
Dave Clark / MIT
John Curran / NEARnet
Steve Deering /Xerox PARC
Dino Farinacci / Cisco
Eric Fleischman / Boeing
Paul Francis / Bellcore
Daniel Karrenberg / RIPE
Mark Knopper / MERIT
Greg Minshall / Novell
Paul Mockapetris / ISI
Rob Ullmann / Lotus
Lixia Zhang / Xerox PARC


Regrets
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J Allard / Microsoft



1. With respect to dealing with the press, it was requested that all
  queries about the IPNG directorate and the IPNG process should be
  directed to the Co-Area Directors, but that queries about individual
  IPng proposals should be dealt with by the authors of those
  proposals


2. Allison initiated a discussion on the roles of the IPNG Directorate.
  Essentially, the Directorate members represent a wide variety of
  groups and backgrounds. The Directorate will be performing the white
  paper reviews, review of the various proposal documents, work with
  the co-directors in the establishment of working groups under the
  area, participate in big-internet discussions, do outreach when
  offered the chance, review working group documents, etc.


3. There was a lot of discussion on the external review panel,
  including the proposal that Dave Clark function as the handler for
  the ExRP. There were a number of comments and some concerns raised
  during the discussion. It was decided to continue the discussion on
  the mailing list preparatory to discussion of membership of the ExRP
  at the next teleconference.


4. It was decided that the draft white paper outline should be
  discussed via e-mail, particularly to see if there were some areas
  that had not been explicitly mentioned. It was suggested that
  earlier works, such as the Selection Criteria I-D, might be reviewed
  with the purpose of identifying additional criteria to be used when
  reviewing white papers.

  The direcotorate also agreed to seperate the original white paper
  concept into two parts:

       1) white papers that represent the views or concers that an
       author wishes to bring to the attention of the IETF  and the
       IPng process

       2) overview documents of the IPng proposals - it was agreed
       that the directorate was not ready to define the form of these
       overviews


  Initially, the document reviews will focus on clarity and
  self-completeness.  Directorate comments will be returned to the
  authors. It was proposed that when a revision is ready, a
  notification is to be sent to Steve Coya who will then notify the
  Directorate.

5. The Directorate discussed the establishment of a Requirements WG and
  a Transition and Coexistence, including Testing (TACIT) Working
  Group. Allison and Scott asked for suggestions for people that might
  chair these new working groups. Frank Kastenholtz was mentioned as a
  chair of the Requirements WG though there was some discussion on
  getting a co-chair


6. Next teleconference will be December 6, 1993