INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) November 19, 1998 Reported by: Steve Coya, IETF Executive Director ATTENDEES --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Maxware Baker, Fred / Cisco Systems Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / @home Coya, Steve / CNRI Coltun, Rob / Fore Systems 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) Schiller, Jeff / MIT Wijnen, Bert / IBM Regrets ------- Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison) Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the November 6 Teleconference were approved. Steve to place in public archives. 2. The IESG approved publication of Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms as a BCP. Steve to send announcement. 3. The IESG approved publication of PPP LCP Internationalization Configuration Option as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 4. The IESG approved publication of Procedure for Defining New DHCP Options as a BCP. Steve to send announcement. 5. Jeff Schiller to provide comments on Router Renumbering for IPv6 to Thomas, who will combine with Scott's comments (already submittted) and send off to the authors. An updated document is needed. 6. The IESG approved publication of DHCP Option for User Authentication Protocol as a Proposed Standard, but request the RFC Editor to retitle to "DHCP Option for The Open Group's User Authentication Protocol" Steve to send announcement. 7. After a considerable amount of discussion, The IESG agreed that Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' be returned to the Working Group for extensive rewriting. There was concern that the protocol could not be implemented from the document and that suggested editorial improvements had been ignored. Thomas to convey to the working group. 8. The IESG approved publication of Gateways and MIME Security Multiparts as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 9. The IESG tentatively approved publication of HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV as a Proposed Standard, but it was discovered that yet another revision was needed due to Last Call comments received. An update is anticipated. 10. The IESG approved publication of IPv6 over Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (NBMA)networks and IPv6 over ATM Networks as Proposed Standards. Steve to send announcement. 11. The IESG approved publication of Textual Conventions for MIB Modules Using Performance History Based on 15 Minute Intervals as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. With the approval of draft-ietf-atommib-perfhistTC, Steve can now send the Protocol Action announcements for the following I-Ds that were approved as Proposed Standards in September: Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS1, E1, DS2 and E3 Interface Types Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS3/E3 Interface Type 12. The IESG approved creation of the DAV Searching and Locating (dasl) Working Group. Steve to send anouncement. 13. The IESG tentatively approved creation of the LDAP Duplication, Replication, Update Protocols (ldup) Working Group once text is added to the charter insuring that the WG maintain adequate communications with other standards groups working in this area. Upon receipt of the revised text from either Keith or Patrik, Steve to send announcement. 14. The IESG approved creation of the Signaling Transport (sigtran) Working Group. Steve to send announcement. 15. The IESG tentatively approved creation of the Media Gateway Control (megaco) Working Group once Scott identifies the WG chair. Steve to send announcement to new-work. After one week, the WG will become active. 16. The IESG approved publication of IPPM Metrics for Measuring Connectivity as an Experimental RFC. Steve to send announcement. 17. Action on Architectural Implications of NAT was deferred as a new version of the document will be requested (Vern and Keith both have comments to be conveyed to the IAB. 18. The IESG approved publication of Limitations of Internet Protocol Suite for Distributed Simulation in the Large Multicast Environment as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announcement. 19. The IESG re-re-affirmed its approval of The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms as a Proposed Standard after reviewing all correspondence related to Bill Simpson's protest and the teleconference held earlier in the week. Steve to send the announcement. 20. Due to the overfilled agenda, the IESG ran out of time and was unable to review or discuss any of the individual submissions to the RFC Editor. Steve to request extension until January, 1999.