INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) March 6, 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 Carpenter, Brian / IBM (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 Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Romanow, Allyn / Sun Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Burgan, Jeff / Baynetworks Mankin, Allison / Information Sciences Institute Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the February 20 teleconference were approved. Steve to place in public directories. 2. The IESG approved formation of the Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) Working Group in the Applications Area, IFF text is added to the charter insuring that the lpr command is not ignored, and that security is explicitly addressed within the charter. Keith to provide the additional text. Once received, the WG will be announced. 3. Action on the formation of the SNMP - Next Generation (snmp-ng) Working Group in the Operations & Management Area was deferred as the charter did not meet IESG requirements previously conveyed to the chair. Some felt that the charter has to include specific deliverables, and text addressing security requirements. It was also emphasised that this is a finishing step, not a starting step. Steve reminded the IESG that there was one more telechat before the Memphis meeting, so the revised charter had to be submitted by March 13. 4. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (FANP) Specification as an Informational RFC, but request that the document title be changed to Toshiba's Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (FANP) Specification. Steve to send note to RFC Editor. 5. The Application Area ADs informed the IESG they were going to contact the author of Clearing the Traffic Jam at Internet Servers A Network Layer View Of Network Traffic Consolidation and ask him to take part in a BOF to be held in Memphis. As such, Steve will send a note to the RFC Editors asking that this document not be published. 6. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Light-weight Flow Admission Protocol Specification Version 1.0 as an Informational RFC, but request that the document title be changed to Cabletron's Light-weight Flow Admission Protocol Specification Version 1.0. Steve to send note to RFC Editor. 7. Jeff and Brian gave an overview of the IAB Security Workshop. This lead into discussion of Fred's note to the WG Chairs on the need to raise the level of concern over Security aspects for documents, and that the IESG will place more importance on the Security Considerations portion of submitted protocols. 8. It was decided to send a message to the IETF Community noting a number of differing encapsulation protcol specifications before the IESG, and asking if the community felt there should be only one (ok ok - I'll try and cut down on the highlander quotes). 9. Steve reported that things don't look good for the IETF meeting in Adelaide. Turns out there's a festival at the same time which has raised the rates of the few hotel rooms that are still available (all next to the ice machine :-). 10. Steve asked the IESG to look at the IESG status Web page as the new IETF Pages were to go live later that day. 11. Meeting ended justed after 1pm; Frank had lunch at a more-normal hour.