IETF STEERING GROUP (IESG) REPORT FROM THE TELECONFERENCE August 17th, 1992 Reported by: Greg Vaudreuil, IESG Secretary This report contains IESG meeting notes, positions and action items. For more information please contact the IESG Secretary. iesg-secretary@nri.reston.va.us Attendees --------- Borman, David / Cray Research Crocker, Dave / TBO Crocker, Steve / TIS Coya, Steve / CNRI Davin, Chuck / MIT Gross, Philip / ANS Hinden, Robert / SUN Hobby, Russ / UC-DAVIS Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore Stockman, Bernard / SUNET/NORDUnet Vaudreuil, Greg / CNRI Regrets Almquist, Philip / Consultant Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Agenda ------ 1) Administrivia o Announcements o Bash the agenda o Approval of Minutes - 8/10/92 o Next Meeting 2) Protocol Actions o PPP Authentication o Van Jacobsen Header Compression o Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots o String Representation of Distinguished Names o Use of X.500 for User Friendly Naming o Ethernet MIB 3) Technical Management Issues o IAB/IETF Process Working Group o OSPF recommendation. Minutes -------- 1) Administivia o Bash the agenda. The agenda was abreviated to allow for expanded discussion of the IETF/IAB process Working Group. o Minutes of the 10th. The Minutes of August 10th were approved. o Next Meeting The next IESG meetings was set for August 24th, 12:00-2:00 ET. 2) Protocol Actions o PPP Authentication The current hold up for PPP Authentication is the specification of the character set for the comment field in the authentication messages. The IESG is concerned that the IAB and Working Group are on a request-change cycle which has no end in sight. ACTION: SCrocker -- Send a note to Steve Kent listing all known outstanding issues and attempt to reach closure. o TCP/IP Header Compression There has been no progress in clarifying the needed changes and getting a new document published. o OSI Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots There was no objection to the publication of the OSI Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots document. There is minor controversy over the directory scheme. This proposal is different from the North American Directory Forum (NADF) proposal, but it is a reasonable suggestion for uniform naming an Internet directory system and should be published. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Send a notification to Jon Postel to publish the Internet Draft "Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots" as an Information RFC. o OSI String Representation of Distinguished Names (Proposed Standard) The IESG is still waiting for a new version of this document reflecting changes requested during the last call. o User Friendly Naming using X.500 This document has been revised at the request of the IAB. It is now intended to be published as an Experimental protocol rather than a Proposed Standard. Because this has been the subject of continuing dialogue, the Area Directors for OSI have requested that a last call be issued. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Issue a Last Call for User Friendly Naming to Experimental status. o Ethernet MIB The Ethernet MIB is on hold waiting for a revised version. Several MIB objects were requested to be deleted from the MIB rather than deprecated. The IESG agreed that this was reasonable and has asked for a revision. 3) Technical Management Issues o Process Working Group. Steve Crocker presented a draft charter of the IAB/IETF Process Working Group. This charter expanded on the charge given the IESG by the ISOC president to look at the IAB/IESG/IETF relationship in fundamental ways. The IESG discussed this with the IAB on mailing lists and agreed that while some of these additional topics may come up in the course of the Working Groups life, the initial charter should directly address the charge of the ISOC president. ACTION: SCrocker -- Refine the Process Working Group charter and re-submit it to the IESG. o OSPF Applicability Statement Phill Gross updated the IESG recommendation to the IAB to smooth over some of the more dated material. This recommendation was reviewed by the IAB and was agreed to send it to the RFC Editor for publication as an Informational Document after posting as an Internet Draft. It is expected that the IAB Applicability Statement for OSPF will reference this document. ACTION: Gross -- Post the revised IESG OSPF AS recommendation to the IAB as an Internet Draft ACTION: Vaudreuil -- After a period of review, send the OSPF recommendation to the RFC Editor for publication as an Informational RFC.