INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) June 22, 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 --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Bradner, Scott / Harvard Coya, Steve / CNRI Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison) Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software Klensin, John / MCI Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs Mankin, Allison / ISI Mockapetris, Paul / ISI O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Schiller, Jeff / MIT Thomson, Susan / Bellcore Regrets ------- Rekhter, Yakov / cisco (IAB Liaison) Minutes ------- 1. The IESG approved the minutes of the June 8 teleconference. Coya to place in Shadow directories. 2. At the request of the Area Director, discussion on RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications , a candidate for Proposed Standard, was placed on hold until a companion document from the WG is submitted. 3. The IESG approved the publication of Architecture of WHOIS++ Service as a Proposed Standard. There were concerns raised about the capability to scale, and the IESG felt that this subject needed to be addressed (demonstrated) before the document is considered for standards track activity. The IESG also approved the publication of Whois and Network Information Lookup Service Whois++ as an Informational RFC. Coya to draft additional text to be included with the Protocol Action and send it to the Area Directors for review. Once the final text is approved, Coya to send announcement. 4. The IESG tabled discussion on the creation of the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (radius) Working Group. Jeff raised objections that need to be reviewed and discussed further. Bradner and O'Dell to work with Schiller to revise charter. 5. The IESG had no problem with the publication of SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME as an Experimental Protocol. Coya to send announcement. 6. Jeff Schiller wanted more time to review "The Exponential Security System TESS: An Identity-Based Cryptographic Protocol for Authenticated Key-Exchange" draft sent to the RFC Editor. Coya to notify the RFC Editors. 7. The IESG discussed the Best Current Practices document prepared by Jon Postel, Tony Li, and Yakov Rekhter. The consensus was that it should be made available as an Internet-Draft. Once done, a Last Call will be issued. 8. The IESG approved creation of the Mime - X.400 Gateway (mixer) WG in the Applications Area. The IAB has until June 27 to raise any objections. If none are received, Coya to send announcement. 9. The IESG approved creation of the Routing Policy System (rps) WG in the Operational Requirements Area. The IAB has until June 27 to raise any objections. If none are received, Coya to send announcement.