INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) May 9, 1996 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-9528103 ATTENDEES --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Baker, Fred / cisco Burgan, Jeff / Baynetworks Coya, Steve / CNRI Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison) Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs Mankin, Allison / Information Sciences Institute Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Regrets ------- Bradner, Scott / Harvard Carpenter, Brian / CERN (IAB Liaison) Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Schiller, Jeff / MIT Minutes: -------- 1. The minutes of the April 25 teleconference were approved. Steve to place in public archives. 2. The IESG approved publication of An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format as a Proposed Standard. Steve will send the announcement. 3. The IESG approved publication of A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packet over Ethernet Networks as a Proposed Standard. Steve will send the announcement. 4. The IESG opted to remove the DNS UPDATE Internet-Draft from the group of four DNSIND documents, treating it as a separate item. Steve to resend as two separate ballots. 5. The IESG approved the creation of the Internetworking Over NBMA (ion) Working Group with the addition of the following milestone: Sep 96 IAB and IESG review of WG Status, and plans. This meeting will be scheduled to occur during SIGCOMM '96. The IESG also wants a single IESG member designated as the Technical Advisor. Steve to send the announcement when the seven day review period concludes, but only if a Technical Advisor is designated. 7. Action on the proposed Transport Layer Security (tls) working group as deferred as Jeff Schiller was not on the call to respond to questions and requests. These will be conveyed via electronic mail. 8. Harald Alvestrand was nominated to serve as the SC29 Liaison. He is now serving as liaison for both SC21 and SC29. 9. The IESG approved Autonomous System Confederations for BGP as an Experimental Protocol. 10. The IESG approved BGP Route Reflection - An alternative to full mesh IBGP as an Experimental Protocol. 11. The IESG approved publication of A Proposed Extension to HTML: Client-Side Image Maps as an Informational RFC.