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- IETF STEERING GROUP (IESG)
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- REPORT FROM THE IETF MEETING
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- March 1st, 1993
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- Reported by: Greg Vaudreuil, IESG Secretary
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- This report contains IESG meeting notes, positions and action items.
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- These minutes were compiled by the IETF Secretariat which is supported
- by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NCR 8820945.
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- For more information please contact the IESG Secretary.
- iesg-secretary@cnri.reston.va.us.
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- ATTENDEES
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- Borman, David / Cray Research
- Crocker, Steve / TIS
- Coya, Steve / CNRI
- Davin, Chuck / Bellcore
- Gross, Philip / ANS
- Hinden, Robert / SUN
- Hobby, Russ / UC-DAVIS
- Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
- Knowles, Stev / FTP Software
- Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
- Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore
- Stockman, Bernard / SUNET/NORDUnet
- Vaudreuil, Greg / CNRI
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- IAB liaison
- Chapin, Lyman / BBN
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- Regrets
- Almquist, Philip / Consultant
- Crocker, Dave / SGI
- Christian Huitema / INRIA
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- AGENDA
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- 1) Administrivia
- o Role Call
- o Bash the Agenda
- o Approval of the Minutes
- o New PPP Working Group Chair
- o IESG Liaison to IAB
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- 2) Protocol Actions
- o Tools RFC
- o MIBs in Waiting
- - PPP LCP MIB
- - PPP IP NCP MIB
- - PPP Bridge MIB
- - PPP Security MIB
- - Token Bus MIB
- - Token Ring MIB
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- 3) Management Issues
- o Router Requirements
- o The US Domain, Farnet, and NWnet
- o SNMP Version2
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- 4) Working Group Actions
- o Secure FTP
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- 5) Tasked Items
- o NFS and RPC
- o IP Address Guidelines A/S
- o WAR with RIP
- o RIP Applicability Statement
- o IP Security Working Group
- o Summarize the ROAD Discussions
- o Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- o IPLPDN
- o Compressing TCP/IP Headers
- o Extensions to Generic-Interface MIB
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- MINUTES
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- 1) Administrivia
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- o Minutes
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- Approval of the minutes of the February 22nd teleconference was
- deferred.
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- o Next Meeting
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- The next meeting was scheduled for February 8th, 11:30 to 1:30 ET.
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- o New PPP Working Group Chairman
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- The IESG was notified that Fred Baker will be assuming the PPP
- Working Group chair, replacing Brian Lloyd.
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- o IAB/IESG Liaison
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- The IAB has chosen Christian Huitema as a second liaison person to
- the IESG. The IESG discussed possible liaisons with the IAB and
- agreed to postpone a choice until after the new IESG members are
- selected.
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- 2) Protocol Actions
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- o NOOP Tools
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- The NOOP Working Group is currently editing this document for
- re-submission as a Proposed Standard requirements document. No
- further IESG action is needed at this time.
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- o Many MIBs
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- Vaudreuil investigated the status of the current Network Management
- Directorate and found that most activity is conducted at quarterly
- IETF meetings. Their does not appear to be an compelling reason to
- advance the outstanding Network Management protocols without an Area
- Director. No further action will be taken until the next IETF
- meeting.
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- 3) Management Issues
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- o SNMP Version2
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- There were no specific results to report. The action item to poll
- the SNMP Version 2 participants has not been completed. The process
- by which the IESG was to ask for comments is new and the rationale
- is not well understood. Concerns centered on the role of the IESG
- in explicitly polling for comments when an open process via the
- Working Group nominally exists for expressing process objections.
- Several private comments made to each of several IESG members were
- made expressing concern about the working group process and result.
- A review of the snmpv2 working group message archive, by Dave
- Crocker, revealed some heated exchanges but no specific problems.
- There was continuing agreement by most IESG members that the "where
- there smoke there may be fire" principle required further
- investigation. Erik Huizer as a neutral IESG member volunteered to
- send the request for more information.
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- ACTION: Huizer -- Send a query to the SNMPv2 and SNMP Security Mailing
- lists asking for specific comments on the process by which SNMP V2 was
- proposed and reviewed. Report back by the March 8th teleconference.
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- o IESG Nomination Committee.
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- The Nomination Committee is expected to have a slate of Area
- Directors ready to be approved by the IAB at the Columbus IETF
- meeting. The IESG was delighted by the prospect for a smooth
- transition and asked that the dates be changed slightly so the IAB
- could review the nominees before the IETF meeting and thus
- facilitate a smooth transition between the current and the
- replacement Area Directors throughout the week.
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- ACTION: Huizer -- Relay the IESG request to have the slate of IESG
- Nominees ready in time for IAB review before the IETF meeting.
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- ACTION: Chapin -- Schedule an IAB meeting to review the list of IESG
- directors for the week before the IETF meeting in anticipation of
- speedy nomination committee action.
-
- o Router Requirements.
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- The Router Requirements documents are now over a year old and need
- to be published. Repeated inquiries to Almquist have not resulted
- in progress. The IESG agreed to offer help in editing the document
- if needed.
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- ACTION: Knowles -- Offer Almquist help if needed to get the Router
- Requirements documents submitted before the next IETF meeting.
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- o TCP Header Compression
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- TCP Header Compression has been on the IESG plate for over eight
- months waiting for a revision from Van Jacobsen. The IESG agreed
- that the changes are sufficiently small that they could be made to
- the ASCII copy and published as a text-only Draft Standard should
- Jacobsen be unable to edit the postscript before the next IETF
- meeting.
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- ACTION: Borman -- Edit the ASCII Version of the Header Compression
- document and offer to submit it as a Draft Standard if Jacobsen is
- unable to update the Postscript.
-
- o Working Smarter
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- The IESG workload has been rising and is expected to continue to do
- do. Gross began a discussion of additional procedures and structures
- the IESG could implement to "Work Smarter, not Harder". A focus of
- the discussion was the creation of Area Directorates for each area.
- There was some disagreement on whether a directorate should be a
- formal body with named membership or a looser "kitchen cabinet" group
- of trusted advisors to the Area Director. No resolution on the model
- was reached.
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- The Secretariat produces several status tracking reports. As the
- Working Group Goals and Milestone definitions have improved to enable
- more useful reporting on the status of Area Progress. These reports,
- currently available on the public ~/ftp/iesg directory will now be
- mailed on a weekly basis.
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- Further discussion on this topic was scheduled for the face-to-face
- get-to-know the new Area Directors meeting at the next IETF Plenary.
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- 4) Working Group actions
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- o FTP Security
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- The question of whether the FTP Security Extensions Working Group
- should be chartered in the Applications or the Security Area depends
- both upon whether a straight forward application of CAT technology
- will suffice and the scope of other non-security enhancements
- needed.
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- ACTION: Hobby, SCrocker -- Discuss the possible approaches to FTP
- Security and resolve the technical issues necessary to properly charter
- the FTP Security Working Group.
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- 5) Tasked Items
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- Not all listed items were reviewed.
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- o IP Security
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- This proposed working group still needs a revision to the charter.
- It is expected before the next IESG meeting.
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- General question: Do it on a case-by-case basis depending on what is
- most appropriate.
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- APPENDIX -- Summary of Action Items Assigned
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- ACTION: Huizer -- Send a query to the SNMPv2 and SNMP Security Mailing
- lists asking for specific comments on the process by which SNMP V2 was
- proposed and reviewed. Report back by the March 8th teleconference.
-
- ACTION: Huizer -- Relay the IESG request to have the slate of IESG
- Nominees ready in time for IAB review before the IETF meeting.
-
- ACTION: Chapin -- Schedule an IAB meeting to review the list of IESG
- directors for the week before the IETF meeting in anticipation of
- speedy nomination committee action.
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- ACTION: Knowles -- Offer Almquist help if needed to get the Router
- Requirements documents submitted before the next IETF meeting.
-
- ACTION: Borman -- Edit the ASCII Version of the Header Compression
- document and offer to submit it as a Draft Standard if Jacobsen is
- unable to update the Postscript.
-
- ACTION: Hobby, SCrocker -- Discuss the possible approaches to FTP
- Security and resolve the technical issues necessary to properly charter
- the FTP Security Working Group.
-