INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) March 28, 1996 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-9528103 For more information please contact the IESG Secretary at . ATTENDEES --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Baker, Fred / cisco Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / Baynetworks Carpenter, Brian / CERN (IAB Liaison) Coya, Steve / CNRI Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison) Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs Mankin, Allison / Information Sciences Institute Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Schiller, Jeff / MIT Minutes ------- 1. The IESG approved the minutes of the February 22, 1996. Coya to place in shadow directories. 2. The IESG approved publication of PPP in Frame Relay as a Proposed Standard. Jeff is to provide a list of specific RFC references that need to be updated. When received, Steve will send the Protocol Action announcement. 3. The IESG approved publication of The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP) as a Proposed Standard. Keith is to provide replacement text for the Working Group summary prior to the Protocol Action announcement being sent. The IESG also approved publication of PPP DES Encryption Protocol (DESE) as an Informational RFC. 4. The IESG approved publication of The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP) as a Proposed Standard. Keith is to provide replacement text for the Working Group summary prior to the Protocol Action announcement being sent. The IESG also approved publication of the following 10 Internet-Drafts as Informational RFCs: 1. PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol 2. PPP Hewlett-Packard Packet-by-Packet Compression (HP PPC) Protocol 3. PPP Gandalf FZA Compression Protocol 4. PPP Predictor Compression Protocol' 5. PPP BSD Compression Protocol 7. PPP LZS-DCP Compression Protocol (LZS-DCP) 8. PPP Magnalink Variable Resource Compression 9. PPP for Data Compression in Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (DCE) 10. PPP Serial Data Transport Protocol (SDTP) 5. The IESG tentatively approved creation of the MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (mhtml) Working Group in the Applications Area. Once the one week review period has passed, and assuming no requests to defer are received, the announcement will be sent. 6. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 as an Informational RFC with the following IESG Note: The IESG has concerns about this protocol, and expects this document to be replaced relatively soon by a standards track document. 7. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices as an Informational RFC. 8. The IESG had no problem with the publication of the following: o ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3 o DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 o GZIP file format specification version 4.3 as Informational RFCs. However, the following text is to be included as an IESG note: The IESG takes no position on the validity of any Intellectual Property Rights statments contained in this document. 9. Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines was removed from the IESG's agenda. A revision is expected, after which it may be resubmitted to the IESG. 10. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol Specification for IPv4 Version 1.0 or The Transmission of Flow Labelled IPv4 on ATM Data Links Version 1.0 as Informational RFCs, but request the following text be included as an IESG Note: This note documents a private protocol for IPv4-based flows. This protocol is NOT the product of an IETF working group nor is it a standards track document. It has not necessarily benefited from the widespread and in depth community review that standards track documents receive. Additionally, the IESG requests that title of the second document, The Transmission of Flow Labelled IPv4 on ATM Data Links Version 1.0 be changed to reflect that this is Ipsilon's protocol, as was done in the protocol specification document. 11. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Multilink Protocol Plus (MP+) , but request the title be changed to "Ascend's Multilink Protocol Plus (MP+)" when published as an Informational RFC. 12. Deirdre announced that she has sent mail to the author of Definitions of Managed Objects for DDS Interface Types, an individual submission to the RFC Editor, noting that their document overlaps with existing standards track efforts. Steve will send a note to the RFC Editor requesting that they not publish this document until Deirdre has concluded her discussions. 13. Steve will send a note to the RFC Editor requesting an extension on the timeout period for Native ATM Support in the Internet to allow more time for IESG review and comment. 14. The IESG had no problem with the publication of What is the Internet, Anyway? as an Informational RFC. 15. Action on Greek Character Encoding for Electronic Mail Messages was deferred as the author intends to submit a revised document. Steve will convey this information to the RFC Editor.