INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) October 22, 1998 Reported by: Steve Coya, IETF Executive Director ATTENDEES --------- Baker, Fred / Cisco Systems Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / @home Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison) Coltun, Rob / Fore Systems Coya, Steve / CNRI Faltstrom, Patrik / Swipnet Leech, Marcus / Nortel Marine, April / Raytheon STX Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee Narten, Thomas / IBM Paxson, Vern / Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Perkins, Charlie / Sun (IAB Liaison) Reynolds, Joyce K. / ISI (IANA Liaison) Wijnen, Bert / IBM Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Alvestrand, Harald / Maxware Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the October 8 Teleconference were approved. Steve to place in public archives. 2. The IESG tentatively approved publication of Language Tagging in Unicode Plain Text as a Proposed Standard pending confirmation from the UNICODE Consortium that the code-points defined in this document are allocated in the Unicode Standard to the IETF for this purpose (i.e. change control belongs to the IETF). When confirmation is received, Steve to send announcement. NOTE: The IESG discovered that change control was to remain with the UNICODE Consortium. Patrik suggested that this document be published as Informational, and the IESG agreed. 3. The IESG approved publication of the following Internet-Drafts as Proposed Standards: o Accounting Information for ATM Networks o Managed Objects for Controlling the Collection and Storage of Accounting Information for Connection-Oriented Networks As these two documents depend on draft-ietf-atommib-atm2TC, Steve to hold off on sending the announcement until that document is approved as well. 4. The IESG returned Textual Conventions for MIB Modules Using Performance History Based on 15 Minute Intervals to the authors requesting additional supporting text. An update is expected. 5. The IESG approved reclassification of Content-type header field for Internet messages as an Historic Document. Steve to send announcement. 6. The IESG approved publication of the following Internet-Drafts as Standard: o RIP Version 2 Carrying Additional Information o RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicabilty Statment Steve to send announcement. 7. The IESG approved publication of the following Internet-Drafts as Proposed Standards: o Definitions of Managed Objects for Extended Border Node Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN TRAPS Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN Steve to send the announcement highlighting the fact that draft-ietf-snanau-appnmib-v2-02.txt obsoletes RFC2155. 8. The IESG tentatively approved publication of POP3 Extension Mechanism as a Proposed Standard, pending the resolution of issues raised by Scott. When an updated version is released and Scott confirms that his concerns have been addressed, Steve to send announcement. 9. The IESG approved formation of the Intrusion Detection (idwg) Working Group in the Security Area. Steve to send his WG REVIEW Message to the IETF Announce and new-work list. After one week, and upon receipt of the administrative information, Steve to send the announcement. 10. Fred posted a revised charter for the Policy WG which included changes request by the IESG at the last telechat. The IESG accepted the revised charter and the WG was approved. Steve to send announcement. 11. The IESG approved publication of A Distributed MARS Service Using SCSP as an Experimental Protocol. Steve to send announcement. 12. The IESG approved publication of The Batch SMTP Media Type as an Informational RFC. Steve to send send announcement. 13. At the last telechat (October 8), the IESG tentatively approved publication of The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms as a Proposed Standard. An updated document was issued which addressed the remaining IESG concerns, and the document was approved for publication. The IESG also discussed the note received from Bill Simpson and a response was drafted, to be sent by the IETF Chair. 14. The IESG discussed the off-topic/off-purpose postings to the IETF discussion list. The IESG maintains that the IETF is an open organization, but the purpose of the discussion list is to discuss technical/engineering topics, or topic pertaining to the IETF in general, and this purpose needs to be restated in no uncertain terms. Fred to send proposed text changes to the IETF Discussion List description (http://www.ietf.org/maillist.html) to the poisson mailing list. 15. The topic of last minute (well, during the week before the IETF) BOF meeting announcements, and Steve was asked to eliminate/reduce the occurances of such. Monday November 16 marks the close of meeting slot requests. Steve suggested that any BOFs that have not submitted agendas/descriptions by Wednesday, November 18, will be removed from consideration. The IESG accepted this, and implied they would not send Marcia last minute special requests :-) 15. Scott requested a weekly mailing that would list all groups that were currently scheduled for upcoming meetings. Steve said it would be done. 16. The next IESG telechat will be on FRIDAY, November 6.