INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) March 23, 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 --------- Bradner, Scott / Harvard Coya, Steve / CNRI Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison) Klensin, John / MCI Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / ISI Mockapetris, Paul / ISI O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Rose, Marshall / DBC Topolcic, Claudio / BBN Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the March 9 telechat were approved. Coya to place in the IETF Shadow directories. 2. The IESG approved the publication of "MHS use of the X.500 Directory to support MHS Routing" as an Experimental Protocol, though the IESG requests that the title be changed to "X.400-MHS use of the X.500 Directory to support X.400-MHS Routing" Coya to notify RFC Editors. 3. The IESG decided to return "The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP)" to the WG for revisions. Coya to send copy of the note from John Klensin (noting that Scott agrees with the points raised by John) to the WG Chair and the ADs. Discussion on making ECP a standards track item will be suspended until the revision is made available. 4. The IESG approved the publication of Extending OSPF to support demand circuits as a Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement. 5. The IESG approved reclassifying RFC 1267 and RFC 1268 (BGP 3) as Historic documents. Coya to send announcement. 6. The IESG approved the publication of IP over SMDS as a Standard. Coya to send announcement. 7. The IESG approved the creation of IP Version 6 MIB (ipv6mib) Working Group in the Internet Area. Coya to send announcement. 8. The IESG approved the creation of RWhois Operational Development (rwhois) Working Group in the Operational Requirements Area. Coya to send announcement. 9. The IESG had no problem with the publication of "INETPhone: Telephone Services and Servers on Internet" as an Informational RFC. Allison Mankin wanted to prepare a statement that would be included on the RFC cover page. Coya to notify RFC Editors. Mankin to send text for inclusion to the RFC Editors. 10. The IESG wanted to annotate "ICMP Domain Name messages" which was submitted to the RFC Editor as an Experimental Protocol. Allison will prepare text to be included in the RFC cover. Coya to notify RFC Editors. Mankin to send text for inclusion to the RFC Editors. 11. There will be an IESG Retreat held in the DC area on April 27-28, 1995. 12. The IESG decided that Hale & Dorr would be contracted to provide counsel. Scott to coordinate with Geoff Stewart and arrange for him to be present at the Poised95 session on Intellectual Property Rights at the Danvers IETF meeting. 13. The Poised95-IPR BOF session is to be rescheduled so that if follows the IAB review of Dave Crocker's appeal. The IPR session will be held Wednesday morning. Coya to inform Scott of the exact date and time of the session as he will pass that on to Geoff Stewart of Hale and Dorr. 14. The IESG felt that the normal course of actions would be to create an SSL I-D and refer the SSL developers to the IETF WG. However, if the SSL folks felt that the WG's aims were incompatible, we should allow informational publication with a disclaimer by Schiller and Klensin. Coya to inform Klensin and Schiller of the action item, and convey their sentiments to the RFC Editors.