INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) May 8, 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 --------- Baker, Fred / cisco Burgan, Jeff / Baynetworks Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison) Coya, Steve / CNRI Curran, John / BBN Planet Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison) Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee Narten, Thomas / IBM O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce K. / ISI Romanow, Allyn / Sun Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Bradner, Scott / Harvard Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the April 24 Teleconference were approved. Steve to place in public archives. 2. The IESG approved publication of Service Location Protocol as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 3. The IESG approved publication of the following documents as Proposed Standards: o Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822/MIME Message Bodies o X.400 image body parts o A MIME body part for FAX o MIXER: Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME o Carrying PostScript in X.400 and MIME The IESG also approved publication of A MIME body part for ODA as an Experimental Protocol. 4. The IESG approved publication of Best Current Practice for the Internet White Pages Service as a BCP, albeit with a new document title: Deployment of the Internet White Pages Service 5. The IESG approved publication of TCP and UDP over IPv6 Jumbograms as a Proposed Standard. 6. The IESG approved publication of Use and interpretation of HTTP version numbers as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announcement. 7. The IESG approved publication of Multicast Server Architectures for MARS-based ATM multicasting as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announcement. 8. The IESG approved publication of MaXIM-11 - Mapping between X.400/Internet mail and Mail-11 mail as an Experimental protocol. Steve to send announcement. 9. The IESG approved publication of PPP Vendor Extensions as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announcement. 10. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Encapsulating IP with the Small Computer System Interface as an Experimental Protocol. Steve to inform the RFC Editor. 11. The IESG had no problem with the publication of A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools and Utilities as an Informational RFC. Steve to inform the RFC Editor. 12. The IESG had no problem with the publication of The CAST-128 Encryption as an Informational RFC. Steve to inform the RFC Editor. 13. Thomas reported that he had exchanged notes with the author of Network Security For Large Trade Show and that a new version of the document is expected. Steve to send note to RFC Editor. 14. Steve briefed the IESG on potential hotel sites in Chicago. Everyone agreed that a meeting in a downtown hotel was more desireable than a hotel at the airport. 15. Proposed text for automatic inclusion in WG Charters was discussed. Some felt such text either didn't belong in a WG charter, didn't need to be written, or didn't like the text. Jeff Schiller is to wordsmith and distribute for another round of discussion. 16. Keith Moore was selected as the IESG liaison to the IAB.