INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) October 21 , 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 at iesg-secretary@cnri.reston.va.us. ATTENDEES --------- Bradner, Scott / Harvard Chapin, Lyman / BBN Coya, Steve / CNRI Crocker, Dave / SGI Crocker, Steve / TIS Gross, Philip / ANS Hinden, Robert / SUN Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Klensin, John / UNU Mankin, Allison / NRL Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore Stewart, John / CNRI IAB Liaisons Christian Huitema / INRIA Yakov Rekhter / IBM Regrets Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Rose, Marshall / DBC 1. The minutes from the September 23 and October 7 IESG Teleconferences were approved. 2. Scott and Allison have sent suggestions for changes to the "ISO CLNP in Tuba Envonments" document to Dave Piscitello. The document will be revised resubmitted Internet-Draft. Coya is to wait for explicit approval from Scott and Allison before sending the IESG announcement approving this as an Experimental Protocol. 3. The IESG approved the publication of "PPP in HDLC Framing" and "The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)" as DRAFT standards. The IESG also approved the publication of "Requirements for an Internet Standard Point-to-Point Protocol" as an Informational RFC. 4. The IESG approved the publication of "Multicast Extensions to OSPF" as a Proposed Standard The IESG also approved the publication of "MOSPF: Analysis and Experience" as an Informational RFC. 5. The IESG approved the publication of "OSPF Version 2" as a DRAFT Standard. This is a recycle in grade action. 6. Following some discussion, including the decision to remove a paragraph from the draft charter, the IESG approved the formation of the Routing over Large clouds Working Group. Hinden to notify the WG Chair of the change made to the text of the charter. 7. The IESG deferred approving the publication of "A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations" draft-ietf-ids-catalog-00.txt> as an Informational RFC pending a review by Erik Huizer. 8. The IESG has decided NOT TO meet from 4-6 PM on Monday during the IETF meeting in Houston. Bob Hinden offered to make arrangements for the IESG to meet in a restaurant following the IESG Open Plenary meeting on Thursday. Additionally, Steve Coya is to investigate the possibilities of organizing an IESG lunch meeting on Wednesday. There was some discussion on whether to schedule dinner meetings on Sunday night at future IETF meetings, and the possibility of having a standard meeting place each morning during the IETF meeting week. The breakfast idea, while generally acceptable, will not be done for the Houston meeting. Coya to make arrangements for this can be done in Seattle, and to identify any problems (logistic or financial) that need to be addressed. 9. Dave Piscitello provided a status update on the "Classical ARP over ATM" document. The text which was deemed inappropriate for inclusion in an Internet RFC has been removed, and additional changes have been made to the document and it is now ready for IESG review and discussion. It was suggested that the IAB review the document from an architectural perspective, and Yakov offered to take this to the IAB. It was noted that the last call period does not expire until the middle of the IETF meeting in Houston. 10. The IPng Area will be requesting a series of white papers from a number of individuals, and asked for IESG opinions on how the publication should be handled. It was agreed that these should follow the same route of initial announcement as Internet-Drafts, eventually published as Informational RFCs. It was noted that while the IPng is essentially soliciting opinions, the opinions expressed by the authors of the individual white papers does not automatically represent the opinions of the area... nor do they exclude that possibility. It was suggested that a standard text section noting that these are opinions be included in each and every document. 11. Lyman reported on some of the results of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 meeting held last month in Seoul. A liaison contribution from SC6 to ISOC proposes that SC6 and ISOC jointly negotiate a "memorandum of understanding" as the basis of a category A liaison relationship between SC6 and ISOC; describes the bene- fits that SC6 sees in the establishment of such a liaison rela- tionship; recognizes the current reality that the best place in which to pursue technical work on the development of standards for internetworking is the IETF; and reaffirms the resolution of its working groups from last February to make the relevant Network and Transport layer SC6 documents available to ISOC and to the Internet community at large (preferably in electronic form). The "electronic form" aspect has been held up since February by the ISO Central Secretariat, but Lyman expects an agreement to be reached soon that will permit the documents on SC6's list to be posted as RFCs. Lyman will send a note to the IAB and IESG with the list of SC6 documents that are covered by the SC6 liaison from Seoul. The liaison contribution itself will be posted shortly as an internet draft. 12. Coya to send a message to the RFC Editor asking for an extension on the Remote Query Protocol RFC submission which is to be reviewed by Dave Crocker. 13. Phill reported that he is working on the IETF charter. At this time, it is approximately 10 pages of text with outlines for the rest of the document. Phill reviewed some of the major sections of the charter, and his plans to get some individual reviews done prior to holding a single topic teleconference with interested IESG members to review the charter.