INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) October 23, 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 Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / @home Coya, Steve / CNRI Curran, John / GTE Internetworking Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison) Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee Narten, Thomas / IBM Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Romanow, Allyn / Sun Regrets ------- Baker, Fred / cisco Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison) Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Schiller, Jeff / MIT Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the October 9 Teleconference were approved. Steve to place in public archives. 2. The IESG approved publication of Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 3. The IESG tentatively approved the creation of the LDAP Extension (ldapext) working group. If no issues are raised in the remainder of the one week review time period, the WG will be announced. 4. The IESG tentatively approved the creation of the Usenet Article Standard Update (usefor) working group. If no issues are raised in the remainder of the one week review time period, the WG will be announced. 5. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Hobbes' Internet Timeline as an Informational RFC. Steve to notify the RFC Editors. 6. Harald is still gathering information pertaining to Registration of a Ukrainian Cyrillic Character Set KOI8-RU (an extention to Russian KOI8-R and ISO-IR-111) and Ukrainian Code Page KOI8-U . Steve to request an extension from the RFC Editor. 7. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Key Exchange Delegation Record for the DNS as an Informational RFC. Steve to notify the RFC Editors. 8. The IESG had no problem with the publication of A Dictionary Server Protocol as an Informational RFC. Steve to notify the RFC Editors. 9. The IESG recommened that MAPPING OF AIRLINE TRAFFIC OVER IP not be published because of its poor quality and because of the lack of a security section. Steve to convey this to the RFC Editor. Next Meeting will be November 6