INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) 17 November 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 Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison) Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Klensin, John / MCI Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / NRL Mockapetris, Paul / ISI Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) Schiller, Jeff / MIT Stewart, John / CNRI Topolcic, Claudio / BBN Regrets ------- O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Rose, Marshall / DBC 1. The minutes of the 20 October and 3 November IESG teleconferences were approved. 2. John Stewart will be leaving CNRI soon to work for MCI, and as a result will no longer be IESG Secretary. This is his last teleconference, but he will be doing IESG Secretary duties in San Jose. 3. Protocol Actions o The IESG recommends to the RFC Editor that the Internet-Drafts: - "Representing the O/R Address hierarchy in the X.500 Directory Information Tree" - "Representing Tables and Subtrees in the X.500 Directory" - "Use of the X.500 Directory to support mapping between X.400 and RFC 822 Addresses" be published as Experimental RFCs. Originally, the first two documents were to be Proposed Standards, while the third was to be Experimental; however, the IESG reached consensus that it was most appropriate to have all three documents be Experimental. o The IESG wanted to make some comments on the submission of "Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol" for the status of Proposed Standard. The IESG expects a revision to be submitted. ACTION(Huizer): Forward the IESG's comments on CLDAP to the authors. o The IESG wanted to make some comments on the submission of "Definitions of Managed Objects for SNA Data Link Control: SDLC" for the status of Proposed Standard. The comments have already been forwarded, and we are awaiting a response. o The IESG wanted to make some comments on the submission of the Internet-Drafts: - "INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4" - "IMAP4 Authentication mechanisms" for the status of Proposed Standard and: - "IMAP4 COMPATIBILITY WITH IMAP2 AND IMAP2BIS" - "DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONIC MAIL MODELS IN IMAP4" for Informational. The IESG expects revisions of one or more of the documents to be submitted. ACTION(Klensin): Forward the IESG comments on IMAP4 to the authors. o The IESG approved "The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation Protocol" for the status of Proposed Standard. 4. Working Group Actions o With one qualification, the IESG approved the creation of the Address Auto-Configuration Working Group (ADDRCONF) in the IPng Area. The qualification is to make explicit the fact that the ADDRCONF, DNSIND and DNSSEC Working Groups must be synchronized with one another. ACTION(Bradner,Mankin): Submit text for a new milestone, to occur early in the group's life, to satisfy the synchronization requirement. o The IESG approved the creation of the IP: Next Generation Working Group (IPNGWG) in the IPng Area. o The IESG approved the creation of the Site Security Handbook Working Group (SSH) in the User Services Area. 5. Working Group Informational/Experimental Documents o The IESG had no objections to "Ways to Define User Expectations" being published as an Informational RFC. 6. RFC Editor Actions o The IESG was given an update on the Informational RFC submission "A Protocol for Asynchronous access to TCP/IP hosts on a X.25 PSDN." The current status is that one of the Internet Area Directors has sent a message to the author, but has not gotten a response. The IESG stand is that if the author still wishes to publish, and if the RFC Editor will follow through on those wishes, then an IESG note will be attached to the document. 7. Management Issues o ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 18/WG 4 has requested the IETF to participate in a new work item for "Interworking between X.400/MHS and Internet e-mail." The IESG agreed that the situation should be handled by sending SC 18 the same document used to establish the liaison with SC 6. Further, the IESG agreed that John Klensin would be the IESG point of contact for SC 18.