INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) 25 August 1994 Reported 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 at . ATTENDEES --------- Bradner, Scott / Harvard Coya, Steve / CNRI Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison) Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Klensin, John / MCI Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / NRL Mockapetris, Paul / ISI O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) Rose, Marshall / DBC Schiller, Jeff / MIT Stewart, John / CNRI Topolcic, Claudio / BBN Regrets --------- Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks 1. The minutes of the 11 August IESG teleconference were approved. 2. The IESG approved "The PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)" as a Proposed Standard. 3. RFC Editor Actions o With the qualification that there are some grammar and typo problems, as well as a lack of certain types of information, the IESG had no objections to "Tools for DNS debugging" being published as an Informational RFC. o Allison Mankin asked to have one more day to review "An Extension to TCP : Partial Order Service." ACTION(Mankin): Review the document by Friday night. 4. Management Issues o The IESG agreed that the "Working Group Workshop" should continue to be held on Wednesdays at 8:00 a.m. The workshop is valuable to all attendees (i.e., not just chairs), so attendance is open to all. An IESG member will do the training, and the session will be attended by the IESG member responsible for doing the training at the next meeting. The San Jose training will be done by Paul Mockapetris, and Allison Mankin will attend (i.e., Allison will chair the session in Danvers). In addition, there will be a "Working Group Chairs" meeting held on Monday morning at 8:00 a.m. to allow the chairs to get together and share information. Logistics and content details will be worked out later, but the moderator will be Paul Mockapetris, and the agenda will include time to discuss problems and general "working group news we can use." For both of these sessions, continental breakfast will be set up near the rooms. o The IP6 walkthrough held on Monday 22 August was attended by 180 sites (16 of which were non-US). The IPng Area Directors are working on the write-up of their recommendation, and expect to be finished soon. o The IESG began discussing the requirement level of encryption in IP6, but decided that it needed more time to discuss the issue. This item is scheduled for a full hour during the next teleconference. ACTION(Schiller): Do a write-up on his view of this issue to serve as a starting point for IESG discussion. o AppleTalk MIB II to Proposed ACTION(Topolcic): See that the Internet Area deals with moving the AppleTalk MIB II to Proposed. o The IESG agreed that the proposed agenda for the "IETF room" at Networld+INTEROP 95 Vegas looked good. Area directors should look at the agenda to see that they can make their assigned slot; areas with two directors should decide how they want to handle their slot. Marshall Rose will be asking the area directors to confirm that they can make their slot. o Sun has very recently submitted a revised agreement on passing RPC and XDR to the IETF. The IESG will be updated on this after a review is done. o There is a conflict between INTEROP/Japan and the IETF meeting in July of 1995. The IETF Secretariat found that there are few hotel rooms available in Stockholm during the only other available week; therefore, unfortunately, the conflict cannot be reasonably resolved.