INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) January 12, 1995 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 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 Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / ISI Mockapetris, Paul / ISI O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) Rose, Marshall / DBC Schiller, Jeff / MIT Topolcic, Claudio / BBN Regrets ------- Klensin, John / MCI 1. The minutes from the December 22 teleconference were approved. Coya to place in public archives. 2. The IESG approved the publication of "Remote Network Monitoring Management Information Base as a Draft Standard. Marshall is to annotate the document highlighting the change. 3. The IESG approved the reclassification of RFC1058 "Routing Information Protocol to Historic, but only when an Informational Document (to be written) is sent to the RFC Editor which provides information and explanation as to the motivations for the move and the current state of RIP in the Internet. Mike and Scott were drafted to help Joel to write this document. 4. The IESG approved "Printer MIB" as a Proposed Standard. 5. The IESG approved "ATM Signaling Support for IP over ATM" as a Proposed Standard. 6. The IESG approved "MIME Content-Type for the Standard Generalized Markup Language Documents" (mimesgml) as a Working Group 7. There were no objections to the publication of the "Remote Write Protocol - Version 1.0" document as an Experimental Protocol. 8. There were no objections to the publication of "Transmitting IP over ATM AAL5 using DXI protocol" as an Informational RFC, but Allison asked for time to review. If no objections are received by January 19, the document will be published. 9. Paul reported on the possibility of the IETF and Usenix meeting jointly in Dallas (Fall '95). It appears that the best approach is for Usenix to meet either just before or just after the IETF. There is also the possibility of a common terminal room that would make it easier on the local host (MCI). Additional discussions will be held. 10. The IESG discussed the practice of sending notices to the IETF Annoucement list when practices or policies are adopted by the IESG. For example, if the IESG desires to be looser or more strict in the quality and completeness of documents submitted for Proposed Standard status. The IESG concluded the these notes should be from the IETF Chair. 11. It was suggested that an effort be made to search through the IESG archives and minutes from the teleconferences to assemble and consolidate IESG positions. 12. Paul reported that he and Bob Hinden had concluded their negotiations on the text to be submitted with Sun's RPC and XDR specifications, conveying change control and ownership to the IETF. There were questions as to whom signs such an agreement on the receiving side (IETF Chair, ISOC President, ISOC and/or IETF Executive Directors, etc.). Paul reported further that the proposed text needs to be reviewed by counsel. 13. The IESG discussed the problems with Netscape's practice of implying that the SSL speciciation is to be published as an RFC, especially since neither the IESG nor any Working Groups have received as such document. The sense of the IESG was that a formal message should be sent to Netscape, suggesting that they follow the accepted IETF practices by either submitting the document to the RFC editor, or as input to the appropriate WG. There was discussion as to the tone of the note, and suggestions/drafts are to be circulated to the IESG list.