INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) January 18, 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 Bradner, Scott / Harvard Carpenter, Brian / CERN (IAB Liaison) Coya, Steve / CNRI Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software Klensin, John / MCI Mankin, Allison / ISI Mockapetris, Paul / @home O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Thomson, Susan / Bellcore Regrets ------- Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs Rekhter, Yakov / cisco (IAB Liaison) Schiller, Jeff / MIT Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the December 12 teleconference were modified to emphasise the fact that the Web Consortium will document their work own (make available as an Internet-Draft) prior to the IETF assuming responsibility for further development work in the area of payment protocols. The minutes were approved as modified. 2. The IESG approved the publication of Address Allocation for Private Internets as a Best Current Practices RFC. 3. The IESG approved the publication of text/enriched MIME Content-type as an Informational RFC. 4. The IESG had no problem with the publication of The Application/CALS-1840 Content-type as an Informational RFC. 5. The IESG wants IETF WG review of Chinese Character Encoding for Internet Messages, which was submitted directly to the RFC Editor for publication as an Informational RFC. 6. The IESG wanted to provide time for Jeff to review Scalable Multicast Key Distribution, a document that was submitted directly to the RFC Editor for publication as an Experimental Protocol. 7. All IESGers have not yet provided input on An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format , being considered for publication as a Proposed Standard. Coya to sent current ballot to IESG and request responses. 8. The IESG approved the Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement WG (rtfm), but only after two new milestones were added: 1. Jul 96 Submit Internet-Draft on Flow Meter MIB. 2. Mar 97 Submit Implementation Internet-Draft to the IESG to be considered for publication as an RFC. Steve will send a revised charter to the IAB. If no concerns are raised, the WG will be announced sometime during the upcoming year. 9. Steve was tasked to respond officially to Michael Kornegay.