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- Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)
-
- Report from the IESG Teleconference
-
- 12 August 1993
-
- Recorded by: John Stewart, IESG Secretary
-
- 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.
- iesg-secretary@cnri.reston.va.us.
-
- ATTENDEES
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- Bradner, Scott / Harvard
- Chapin, Lyman / BBN
- Coya, Steve / CNRI
- Crocker, Dave / SGI
- Crocker, Steve / TIS
- Gross, Philip / ANS
- Hinden, Robert / SUN
- Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
- Klensin, John / UNU
- Knowles, Stev / FTP Software
- Mankin, Allison / NRL
- Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore
- Rose, Marshall / DBC
- Stewart, John / CNRI
-
- IAB Liaison
- Christian Huitema / INRIA
- Yakov Rekhter / IBM
-
- Regrets
- Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
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-
-
- Minutes
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- 1. Administrative Issues
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- o Roll call
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- o Revisions to the agenda
- The first hour was spent on the Protocol Actions, RFC
- Editor Actions, and Waiting for Area Director Action sections.
- The next hour will be spent on the Management Issues section,
- including the IPng decision process.
-
- o Erik Huizer will be on vacation from 15 August to 15 September
-
- 2. Protocol Actions
-
- o The IESG approved moving "Interactive Mail Access Protocol,
- Version 3" <rfc1203> to Historic.
-
- o The IESG approved moving "The PPP Internetwork Packet Exchange
- Control Protocol (IPXCP)" <draft-ietf-pppext-ipxcp-04.txt> to
- Proposed Standard.
-
- o The IESG approved moving the Dynamic Host Configuration
- documents (<draft-ietf-dhc-between-bootp-03.txt,
- draft-ietf-dhc-bootp-02.txt, draft-ietf-dhc-options-04.txt,
- and draft-ietf-dhc-protocol-07.txt>) to Proposed Standard.
-
- o The IESG approved moving "FDDI Management Information Base"
- <draft-ietf-fddimib-objects-02.txt> to Proposed Standard.
-
- 5. Management Issues
-
- o IPng
- The standard operating procedure in the IETF is for working groups
- to be managed primarily by the areas, with the IESG giving final
- approval for submissions to the standards track. Traditionally,
- areas and their directors have been created and torn down at the
- IESG's convenience, and this is a strength.
-
- It was decided that all of the IPng work should be aggregated.
- The Chair was asked to formulate a plan.
-
-
- ACTION (Gross): As IETF/IESG Chair, write up a proposal for the IPng
- decision process and send it to the IESG mailing list by the morning
- of 16 August.
-
- o Time-stamping ACTION items
- ACTION items on the IESG Agendas will now have reasonable
- deadlines associated with them.
-
- o IESG view on new document series for non-standards
- Allison Mankin suggested that the Internet do what the ATM
- Forum does and publish a book containing its standards. There
- was mixed reaction within the IESG, but several people said
- that it would be nice to have the RFCs handy without having to
- have access to a workstation and a network.
-
- ACTION (Mankin): Send a message to the ISOC Trustees by close of
- business on Friday 13 August asking for their reaction to ISOC
- publishing a book of its standards.
-
- o Prototype status
- There was a question as to whether Prototype was necessary or
- not. Its proponents claim that (1) it is a necessary stage for
- protocols which appear to be complete, but have not been tested
- well enough to enter the standards track, and (2) the
- connotations of the word "Prototype" might encourage vendors to
- implement and test protocols more so than protocols with a status
- of Experimental. In the past, the IAB used Prototype when a
- working group wanted a document to be a Proposed Standard, but
- the IAB didn't think the protocol was ready for the standards
- track.
-
- ACTION (D. Crocker): Send a message to the IESG proposing wording to
- define Prototype status.
-
- o IESG Policy on OSI-related work, and IESG response to OSIXTND
- The IESG decided that the IESG/IETF Chair IETF should announce
- the policy that the IESG agreed to, and that the Chair needs to
- be aware of the possibility that some people might incorrectly
- interpret this statement as coupling IPng and the liaison.
-
- ACTION (Gross): As IESG/IETF Chair, send a draft of the announcement
- for the IESG Policy on OSI-related Work to the IESG mailing list by
- 20 August.
-
- 6. RFC Editor Actions
-
- o "Automating Administration in SNMPv2 Managers" as Informational
- The IESG had no objections to publishing this document as an
- Informational RFC.
-
- 7. Waiting for Area Director Action
-
- o "DNS Resolver MIB" <draft-ietf-dns-resolver-mib-01.txt> and
- "DNS Server MIB" <draft-ietf-dns-server-mib-01.txt> to Proposed
- Marshall Rose reported that the Network Management Area
- Directorate has seen these documents three times, and is
- requesting more changes.
-
- ACTION (Rose, D. Crocker): Take the discussion off-line and try to
- fix the details.
-