INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) 7 July 1994 Reported by: John Stewart, IESG Secretary 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 8820945. For more information please contact the IESG Secretary at . ATTENDEES --------- Bradner, Scott / Harvard Coya, Steve / CNRI Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison) Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Klensin, John / UNU Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / NRL Mockapetris, Paul / ISI O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) Rose, Marshall / DBC Schiller, Jeff / MIT Stewart, John / CNRI Topolcic, Claudio / BBN Regrets ------- 1. The minutes of the 23 June IESG teleconference were approved. 2. Protocol Actions o The IESG approved moving "Definitions of Managed Objects for SMDS Interfaces" to Draft Standard. o The IESG approved moving "Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management Version 8.0" to Proposed Standard. o The IESG approved moving "RDBMS-MIB" to Proposed Standard. o The IESG approved moving "Modem MIB" to Proposed Standard. 3. Working Group Informational Documents o Allison Mankin has requested more time to review "Octet sequences for upper-layer OSI to support basic communications applications" for publication as an Informational RFC. She will give the IESG an update at their Friday meeting in Toronto. 4. Working Group Actions o The IESG approved the creation of the Mail Extensions Working Group (MAILEXT) in the Applications Area. 5. Working Group Chairs Workshop Erik Huizer sent e-mail to all working group chairs asking them their opinion on what the future of the "Working Group Chair Workshop" should be. The immediate result is that Sue Hares will do a training session in Toronto on Wednesday with attendance by [at least] Erik and Paul Mockapetris. It was noted that this training session does not take the place of area-specific training by area directors. The meeting will be open to everyone (i.e., not just chairs). For the future, the workshop will be expanded; it was noted that the workshop is good instruction on how to participate in the IETF process, so is valuable for more than just chairs. Also in the future, a closed working group chair "get-together" will be arranged. ACTION(Stewart): Place working group chair get-together on the agenda for the IESG meeting following Toronto. 6. Internet Middleware Area BOF (IMABOF) Stev Knowles will chair IMABOF in Toronto. ACTION(Coya): Coordinate with Erik Huizer and Stev on scheduling IMABOF. 7. ISN's AUP document A new version of this document is forthcoming. 8. RFCs 1597 and 1627 RFC 1597 documented, in an Informational RFC, the mechanism of numbering private networks with non-globally unique IP addresses; to support this mechanism, IANA allocated three blocks of IP addresses (one in each Class A, B, and C). RFC 1627 was written as an "opposing point of view" response. The IESG discussed several different issues brought up by this event, but decided that the optimal solution was already under way: both sets of authors are working on an update to RFC 1597 which more clearly states the disadvantages of its approach. 9. IAB Workshop in Fall on Integrated Information Architecture The workshop will be 12-14 October in the Washington, DC area. In addition to the IAB, the attendance will include appropriate IESG members (Erik Huizer, John Klensin, Paul Mockapetris, Jeff Schiller, and Joyce Reynolds) and other community experts. The workshop will be announced on the IETF-Announce mailing list in the form of a "call for papers" so all parties have an opportunity to contribute to the agenda. 10. ANSI/IEEE ANSI is interested in being involved with the standards that will be used in the NII. Vint Cerf, as ISOC President, and Paul Mockapetris, as IETF/IESG Chair, will attend an ANSI meeting on this topic on Tuesday 11 July. The day before, ANSI will be giving a presentation to Paul on how the IEEE uses the ANSI standards mechanism. Paul asked if others would be interested in attending. John Klensin and Allison Mankin will talk to Paul off-line about attending. 11. Next steps for IPng The IPng Area Directors updated the IESG on their progress and on what they plan to do in Toronto. A single-topic IESG teleconference on IPng will be held on 14 July.