INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) June 13 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 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) 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 Regrets ------- Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Minutes ------- 1. The minutes from the June 6 teleconference were approved. Steve to place in Shadow directory. 2. The IESG approved publication of Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50 as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 3. The IESG approved publication of MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 4. The IESG approved publication of the following three documents: 1. SNMPv2 Management Information Base for IP 2. SNMPv2 Management Information Base for TCP 3. SNMPv2 Management Information Base for UDP as Proposed Standards, but the IESG will request the following text be added as an IESG Note: The IP, UDP, and TCP MIB modules currently support only IPv4. These three modules use the IpAddress type defined as an OCTET STRING of length 4 to represent the IPv4 32-bit internet addresses. (See RFC1902, SMI for SNMPv2.) They do not support the new 128-bit IPv6 internet addresses. 5. The IESG approved publication of BGP communities attribute as a Proposed Standard. In the same action, BGP Community Attribute in Multi-home Routing was approved for publication as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announcement. 6. The IESG approved publication of Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type as an Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 7. The IESG approved publication of the followoing three documents: 1. The Internet Standards Process [BCP] 2. IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees [BCP] 3. The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announcement. 8. Action on INTERNET REGISTRY IP ALLOCATION GUIDELINES was deferred to allow time for additional review. 9. Following a brief discussion, the decision was made to return both ISDN MIB documents to the working group for one last editorial pass. New versions of both documents are expected. 10. Action of the RIP-Trigger documents was deferred for discussions with Joel, who was unable to participate in the telechat. It was suggested that an A/S should should be submitted simultaneously. 11. The IESG approved publication of the following four Internet-Drafts: 1. RTP Payload Format of Sun Microsystems CellB Video Encoding 2. RTP Payload Format for H.261 video streams 3. RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video 4. RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video as Proposed Standards. 14. The IESG had no problem with the publication of General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 1.1 as an Informational RFC, but request that the title be changed to: Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 1.1 15. Harald reported discovering some items in SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting which was approved as a Proposed Standard. A new version of the document is expected (a check shows it in the Internet-Draft queue) that should be used as the RFC text. Steve to send note RFC Editor.