IETF STEERING GROUP (IESG) REPORT FROM THE IETF MEETING May 27th, 1993 Reported by: Greg Vaudreuil, 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 --------- Coya, Steve / CNRI Crocker, Dave / SGI Gross, Philip / ANS Hinden, Robert / SUN Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / Locus Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore Rose, Marshall / DBC Stockman, Bernhard / SUNET/NORDUnet Vaudreuil, Greg / CNRI Regrets Bradner, Scott / Harvard Chapin, Lyman / BBN Crocker, Steve / TIS Kahle, Brewster / WAIS IAB Liaison Christian Huitema / INRIA Yakov Rekhter / IBM AGENDA 1. Administrivia o Roll Call o Bash the Agenda o Approval of the Minutes - May 13th 2. Protocol Actions o IDS Advanced Usages of X.500 o RPC /NFS o Operational Requirements for X.400 Management Domains o POP3 o PPP MIBs o TCP/IP Header Compression o IP over ARCNET 3. Working Group Actions o IP Security o Authorization and Access Control o Routing Information Protocol Version 2 o Multiparty Multicast Session Control o Interactive Message Access Protocol o TP/IX 4. Management Issues o Dynamic Host Configuration o Router Requirements o Internet Draft Source Management 5. Tasked Items o Distributed Authentication Security Service o RIP Applicability Statement o CIDR Applicability Statement o IETF Charter MINUTES ------- 1) Administrivia o Approval of the Minutes The revised minutes of the May 13th teleconference were not yet available. o Next meeting The next teleconference was scheduled for June 10th, 11:30-1:30 ET. o Announcements Megan Davies, the IETF Meeting Coordinator has married and is now Megan Davies Walnut. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Insure the IESG is shown pictures from the wedding. 2) Protocol Actions o IDS Advanced Usages of X.500 Changes were suggested by Erik Huizer and agreed to by Chris Weider. The IESG approved the document with the suggested changes. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Send a document action to the RFC Editor requesting that the IDS Advanced Usages of X.500 document be published as Informational after the revised version is posted as an Internet Draft. o Remote Procedure Call and Network File System The IESG moved RFC 1094 NFS and RFC 1057 RPC to Informational. RFC 1050, RPC Version 1 was moved to Historic. A BOF was scheduled for the Amsterdam IETF meeting to discuss enhancements to the ONC suite of protocols, including NFS, RPC, and XDR. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Send a protocol action announcing the movement of RFC 1094 NFS and RFC 1057 RPC to Informational and RFC 1050 RPC to Historic. o Operational Requirements for X.400 Management Domains This document is currently being reviewed. o Post Office Protocol Version 3 The Post Office Protocol was revised to include support for Authenticated POP using MD5. This new functionality has been implemented separately in 3 packages and otherwise meets the requirements for Draft Standard. With this change, the IESG approved POP3 for Draft Standard. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Announce the IESG approval of POP3 as a Draft Standard. o Point to Point Protocol MIBs With a post-meeting email exchange, the IESG approved the four Point to Point Protocol MIBs for Proposed Standard. These MIBs are for the Bridge Network Control Protocol, IP Network Control Protocol, Link Control Protocol, and the Security Protocols. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Announce the IESG approval of the four PPP MIBs as a Proposed Standard. o TCP/IP Header Compression With the bug fixes made to the source code documentation, the IESG approved the TCP/IP Header Compression documents for Draft Standard. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Announce the IESG elevation of the TCP/IP Header Compression Protocol to Draft Standard. o IP over ARCnet The RFC 1201 IP over ARCNET specification does not have the required implementation or operational experience needed for Draft Standard. Because the IESG is unable verify any operational use of this protocol, it moved the RFC 1201 off the standards track to Historic. RFC 1051, an earlier specification for IP over ARCNET, remains a full Internet Standard. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Announce the movement of RFC 1201, IP over ARCNET, off the standards track and the designation of this protocol as Historic. 3) Working Group Actions o IP Security o Authorization and Access Control The IESG is still waiting for a revision to the charter. o Routing Information Protocol Version 2 The IESG approved the re-activation of the RIP Version 2 Working Group to evaluate the RIP Version 2 protocol for Draft Standard. The IESG added the task of reviewing the Wide Area Routing with RIP proposal to the charter. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Announce the re-formation of the RIP Version 2 Working Group. o TP/IX The IESG was satisfied with the current TP/IX charter. This group will review, and if necessary, modify the TP/IX proposal for the next generation of IP. The group will also serve as a forum for discussing deployment issues. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Announce the formation of the TP/IX Working Group. o Multimedia Multicast Session Control The charter is not sufficiently detailed to understand if the scope is too broad. Session control has the potential to be an excessively large undertaking and the IESG wants to insure that the group remains focused on specific objectives o IMAP The IESG is still waiting for a revised charter. 4) Management Issues o Dynamic Host Configuration There were some specific problems identified in the latest set of DHCP documents with respect to CIDR renumbering. It is not clear DHCP has all the parts needed for this purpose. The IESG is reluctant to expand the scope of the DHCP effort at this time and agreed to push hard to complete the effort within two weeks and then possibly start a separate CIDR effort if needed. ACTION: Piscitello -- Notify the chair of the DHCP effort that the IESG expects a set of documents within two weeks with as much closure on remaining issues as is possible. o Router Requirements There has been no word from Philip Almquist. The IESG gave a two week extension for the Internet Area Directors to get documents from Almquist. The IESG discussed assigning final editing to another person if the documents are not completed within this timeframe. o Internet Draft Source Management The RFC Editor is having increasing difficulty dealing with the diversity and quality of submissions for RFC publication from IESG-approved Internet Drafts. There is no easy way to confirm that the source delivered to the RFC Editor matches the "official" approved version of the Internet Draft. The Secretariat was requested to examine mechanisms to insure that the source document is collected from the authors and verify that it is the same as the approved document. This is made more complicated by the use of several non-nroff authoring systems including LaTeX and commercial word processing systems. ACTION: Coya -- Investigate mechanisms and possible guidelines to insure that the Secretariat has a copy of any available source documents for Internet Drafts destined to become RFCs. 6) Tasked Items o CIDR Applicability Statement The Routing Area Director is working to get BGP Version 4 submitted as a Proposed Standard. This is a crucial piece of the CIDR effort and should be identified in any other CIDR effort. There appears to be some difficulty getting final closure. o IETF Charter No action to report. o RIP Applicability Statement No action to report. o Distributed Authentication Security Service No action to report.