INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) May 22, 1997 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 in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NCR-9528103 ATTENDEES --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Baker, Fred / cisco Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / @home Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison) Coya, Steve / CNRI Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison) Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee Narten, Thomas / IBM Romanow, Allyn / Sun Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Curran, John / BBN O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the May 8 Teleconference were approved as corrected. Steve to place in public archives. 2. The IESG felt that OSPF Version 2 could be recycled at Draft Standard, due to the addition of MD5 material. At the conclusion of the required four month period, a Last Call will be sent for advancing this document to Standard. Steve to send announcement. 3. The IESG approved publication of OSPF with Digital Signatures as an Experimental Protocol. Steve to send announcement. 4. The IESG approved publication of A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution as an Experimental Protocol. Steve to send announcement. 5. The IESG approved publication of Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System as an Experimental Protocol. Steve to send announcement. 6. Keith will send a note to the author of PDC/NetApp Backup Protocol suggesting changes to the document, including instructions to get a proper port number assigned. 7. The IESG had no problem with the publication of the following Internet Drafts as RFCs: o UTF-7 [A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode] o Referral Whois (RWhois) Protocol V1.5 o MAPOS Version 1 Assigned Numbers o A MAPOS version 1 Extension - Node Switch Protocol o A MAPOS version 1 Extension - Switch-Switch Protocol o MAPOS - Multiple Access Protocol over SONET/SDH o IPv4 over MAPOS Version 1 o MAPOS 16 - Multiple Access Protocol over SONET/SDH with 16 Bit Addressing o APPN Implementer's Workshop Closed Pages Document DLSw v2.0 Enhancements 8. It was decided that when a WG goes "dormant" a note is to be inserted in the Charter indicating this status. 9. The idea of an IANA liaison to the IESG was discussed and approved. Steve to send note to the IANA with the invitation to join in on IESG teleconferences. 10. Just prior to the teleconference, the IESG approved publication of Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN as a Proposed Standard.