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- IETF STEERING GROUP (IESG)
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- REPORT FROM THE TELECONFERENCE
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- November 9th, 1992
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- Reported by: Greg Vaudreuil, IESG Secretary
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- 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.
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- For more information please contact the IESG Secretary.
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- ATTENDEES
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- Almquist, Philip / Consultant
- Borman, David / Cray Research
- Crocker, Dave / TBO
- Coya, Steve / CNRI
- Davin, Chuck / Bellcore
- Gross, Philip / ANS
- Hinden, Robert / SUN
- Hobby, Russ / UC-DAVIS
- Knowles, Stev / FTP Software
- Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
- Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore
- Stockman, Bernard / SUNET/NORDUnet
- Vaudreuil, Greg / CNRI
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- Regrets
- Crocker, Steve / TIS
- Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
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- AGENDA
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- 1) Administivia
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- o Role Call
- o Bash the Agenda
- o Approval of the Minutes
- - November 2nd
- o New Area Director Search Report
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- 2) Protocol Actions
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- o Token Ring MIB
- o Ident MIB
- o Ident
- o String Representation of Distinguished Name
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- Technical Management Issues
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- o ROAD Action Plan for Washington
- - ROAD Decision Plan
- - Presentation planning for Monday
- o Integration of the OSI Area.
-
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- MINUTES
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- 1) Administrivia
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- o Approval of the minutes
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- Minutes of November 2nd were approved.
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- o New Area Director Report
-
- After talking with the several candidates proposed during the last
- IESG meeting to replace Noel Chiappa, Phil Gross, with the approval
- of the IESG, invited Stev Knowles to join the IESG. Steve Knowles
- accepted and was added to this teleconference.
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- ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Add Stev Knowles to the IESG mailing lists and
- record his new position in the on-line information.
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- 2) Protocol Actions
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- o Token Ring MIB
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- No action to report.
-
- o IDENT/ IDENT MIB
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- No action to report.
-
- o String Representation of Distinguished Names
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- The IESG has reviewed and has agreed to recommend "String
- Representation of Distinguished Names" as a Proposed Standard. (See
- note in appendix)
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- ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Send a recommendation to the IAB to publish the
- Internet Draft <draft-ietf-osids-distnames-04, .txt, .ps> as a Proposed
- Standard.
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- 3) Technical Management Issues.
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- o Road Decision
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- The IESG Road decision plan was published as RFC 1380. A second
- effort to expand and prioritize the decision criteria has been
- submitted as an Internet Draft, and a BOF to discuss these and the
- IESG criteria has been scheduled for the Washington DC IETF
- meeting. It has been pointed out that Network Operators and users
- have been under-represented in the selection criteria and that
- special attention may need to be given to those who's concerns may
- be diminished in the quest for technical solutions.
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- The IESG plan calls for making a decision on an IPV7 candidate
- following the November IETF meeting. With at least two strong
- contenders that will satisfy the initial milestones, it is not clear
- that a single choice can be clearly made. The IESG considered
- several options, and agreed that the goal still remains to narrow
- the choice to a single candidate for IP Version 7 at some point
- after the plenary meeting.
-
-
- POSITION: The IESG intends to bring about as much closure in the next
- IP decision as possible at the November 92 IETF meeting. While the
- goal is to choose one proposal, the IESG will not rush into an
- unfounded judgement in the face of the published timeframe.
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- The IESG agreed to meet again November 10th to discussed possible
- criteria and milestones to be used in the event a choice is not
- possible at the November IETF meeting.
-
- ACTION: Coya -- Schedule a teleconference for Tuesday November 10th
- from 1-2 PM ET.
-
- o Monday ROAD Plenary Presentations.
-
- The IESG has been asked to re-allocate the time for IPv7
- presentations at the next plenary. The TUBA proposal relies upon
- the understanding of CLNP, and time was requested for a review of
- the CLNP proposal. The time for the presentations was too tight to
- allow a new presentation. However, it was observed that the SIP and
- IPAE efforts have, to some extent, merged and may be able to combine
- their presentations. If this is possible, the presentation slots
- will become longer allowing some time in the TUBA presentation for
- CLNP.
-
- ACTION: Almquist -- Contact Steve Deering and ascertain whether the SIP
- and IPAE presentations can be merged. Further remind Deering of the
- requirement to publish an Internet Draft describing SIP by this
- Wednesday to retain his speaking slot should he decide to keep it.
-
- o IESG Re-Alignment
-
- The IESG discussed and initially accepted the proposal to integrate
- the OSI Working Groups into their natural areas. Dave Piscitello
- indicated that he was now willing to move to the Internet Area and
- assume responsibility for PDN and Large Network Issues as well as
- oversee the integration of OSI network layer protocols. After
- Steve Knowels indicated his willingness to serve as an Internet Area
- Director and joined the teleconference, he expressing a desire to
- not serve as part of a triumverate. With the immediate need of
- finding help for Philip Almquist and with little time to explore
- partial integration of the OSI Working Groups, the IESG reconsidered
- the OSI integration proposal and opted to delay action.
-
- Appendix -- Summary of Mailing List Discussions
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- o User Friendly Naming
-
- Steve Kent submitted a series of comments shortly after the
- teleconference, mostly pertaining to documentation style and
- clarification. In particular he has asked that an addition example
- be included and that a section describing an optional/ not
- recommended format be dropped from the document. This section was
- added to satisfy Christian Huitema who during this exchange agreed
- that it should be deleted. Dave Crocker raised a concern over
- Friendly Naming's use of comma as a separating, since it will cause
- difficulties for RFC822 parsers should the DN's be used in email
- addresses. Crocker was satisfied with an explanation of the Working
- Groups reasoning.
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- ANTI-ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Do Not send a recommendation for the String
- Representation of Distinguished Name document.
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- ACTION: Huizer -- Communicatate the comments received by the IESG to
- the OSIDS Working Group and encourage a new version of the String
- Representation of Distinguished Name document.
-
- Appendix -- Action Items
- --------
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- ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Add Stev Knowles to the IESG mailing lists and
- record his new position in the on-line information.
-
- ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Send a recommendation to the IAB to publish the
- Internet Draft <draft-ietf-osids-distnames-04, .txt, .ps> as a Proposed
- Standard.
-
- ACTION: Coya -- Schedule a teleconference for Tuesday November 10th
- from 1-2 PM ET.
-
- ACTION: Almquist -- Contact Steve Deering and ascertain whether the SIP
- and IPAE presentations can be merged. Further remind Deering of the
- requirement to publish an Internet Draft describing SIP by this
- Wednesday to retain his speaking slot should he decide to keep it.
-
- Appendix -- Positions Taken
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- POSITION: The IESG intends to bring about as much closure in the next
- IP decision as possible at the November 92 IETF meeting. While the
- goal is to choose one proposal, the IESG will not rush into an
- unfounded judgement in the face of the published timeframe.
-