INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) January 26, 1995 Reported by: Steve Coya, IETF Executive Director 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 . ATTENDEES --------- Bradner, Scott / Harvard Coya, Steve / CNRI Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison) Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Klensin, John / MCI Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / ISI Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) Rose, Marshall / DBC Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Mockapetris, Paul / ISI O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Topolcic, Claudio / BBN Minutes ------- 1. The minutes from the January 12 teleconference were approved. Coya to place in the public directories. 2. The IESG decided to once again return both "PPP LCP Option for Data Encapsulation Selection" and "PPP in Frame Relay" to the Working Group. Knowles to send message to the PPP WG requesting a single coherent solution. Coya to send "heads up" message to the RFC Editors, informing them that either or both of these documents may be submitted to the RFC-Editor for publication. If they do, the IESG will want to review and add text. 3. The IESG approved the formation of the HypterText Transfer Protocol (http) WG. Allison noted that many aspects of the work to be done by this wg will be of great interest to the Transport Services Area. This WG will be a joint WG with the Applications and Transport Services Area; John will remain as the primary AD. 4. The IESG approved the publication of "Functional Requirements for Internet Resource Locators" as an Informational RFC, but requests that the word "Requirements" be changed to "Recommendations." Coya to send message to the RFC Editor. 5. The IESG agreed that a message be sent by the Chair to the IETF noting the IESG policy of not permitting the word "Requirement" in the title of informational RFCs submitted by Working Groups. Mockapetris to draft and post this message. 6. The IESG discussed the three informational RFC submissions received from the RFC Editors: Jeff Schiller is to contact the authors of the SSL protocol to discuss bring their work into the IETF. Allison Mankin is to contact the others of TCP and UDP over IPX and the TCP/IPX Connection Mib specification about concerns that were raised by the directorate that reviewed the documents. Allison summarized the directorate comments: the TCP and UDP specification is not good, and publication would not serve the community very well. 7. It was decided that Working Groups would be scheduled for Monday morning (10-11:30) at the Danvers meeting. Further, there will be no plenary sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings (WGs can start at 9am). The IESG decided that the topic of night WG meetings (8-10 pm) should be discussed during the Danvers Open Plenary slot. 8. The eventual re-assignment of IPNG working groups to other areas was discussed, and the following assignments were agreed to: ALE is to merge with CIDRD IPNGWG is to move to the Internet Area ADDRCONF is to move to the Internet Area TACIT is to move to the Operations Requirements Area NGTRANS is to move to the Operational Requirements Area Allison reported that an effort was already underway to establish a new working group named IPV6MIB. This will also be moved to the Internet Area. 9. Scott reported a rise in the practice of individuals in WGs making documents available for comment and review outside the Internet-Draft process, and encouraged all Area Directors to monitor and discourage this "out-of-band" practice.