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- Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)
- September 23 , 1993
-
- Reported by: Steve Coya, Acting IESG Secretary
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- This report contains IESG meeting notes, positions and action items.
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- 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
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-
- Bradner, Scott / Harvard
- Chapin, Lyman / BBN
- Coya, Steve / CNRI
- Crocker, Dave / SGI
- Crocker, Steve / TIS
- Hinden, Robert / SUN
- Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
- Knowles, Stev / FTP Software
- Mankin, Allison / NRL
- Piscitello, Dave / Bellcore
- Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
- Rose, Marshall / DBC
-
- IAB Liaison
- Christian Huitema / INRIA
- Yakov Rekhter / IBM
-
- Regrets
- Gross, Phill / ANS
- Klensin, John / UNU
-
-
- 1. Some minor corrections were made to the July 29 minutes. It was
- noted that, while reduced, there were still a few "he said-she said"
- type phrases which need to be removed from the minutes of 29 July, 12
- August, 19 August, and 2 September.
-
- ACTION: Coya to edit and resend the above mentioned minutes. There will
- be a 1 week timeout period after which the minutes will be considered
- approved in the absense of any requests for changes.
-
- 2. There is a consensus that RFC1237 (Guidelines for OSI NSAP
- Allocation in the Internet) should advance in grade to DRAFT. Further,
- there is an interest on the part of RARE/CLNS to amend text to see that
- European practices are described adequately. Marcel Wiget and Ross
- Callon are working on revised text, which should be available for last
- call by end of September
-
- 3. The Generic Internet Service Description (gisd) was approved as a WG
- in the Operational Requirements Area.
-
- ACTION: Coya to send note to chairs with this information, and a
- message from their Area Director that if they want to meet during the
- Houston IETF, they should submit their request immediately.
-
- 4. The Internet Draft "Assignment of System Identifiers for TUBA/CLNP
- Hosts" was approved for publication as an Informational RFC.
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- 5. Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner provided an update on the IPNG
- Directorate. They are planning to choose and announce the members of
- the directorate to the IETF within a week or so. There will be no IAB
- or IESG members on the directorate.
-
- There will also be an IPNG report to the IETF at the Houston IETF
- meeting, but they are hoping to report to the IETF prior to the
- November meeting. A draft of the message will be circulated among the
- IESG members.
-
- They also reported that Frank Solensky will be the chair of a new IPNG
- Working Group: Address Lifetime Estimates (ale).
-
- 6. Stev Knowles reported that the ST-II charter is being revised and
- will be resubmitted to the IESG. There was some discussion on the
- competing efforts of ST-II and RSVP. It was noted that RSVP has not
- produced an Internet-Draft.
-
- ACTION: Allison to inquire as to the possibility of getting the RSVP
- document(s) released as Internet-Drafts.
-
- 7. The message from Peter Ford asking for the IESG to decide if the
- TUBA WG was not acting in the IETF manner was discussed. The IESG noted
- that to date there have been no process complaints, and without a
- complaint there can be no investigation. If anyone feels they have a
- basis for such a complaint, they should contact the IESG in the
- appropriate manner
-
- ACTION: Coya to draft a response to that effect for IESG review. The message
- should be from the IESG Secretary, sent on behalf of the IESG.
-
- 8. Joyce Reynolds provided a history of the Hyper Text Markup Language
- specification issue. Basically, the authors believe it should be
- entered into the standards track, while the IIIR Working Group felt it
- more appropriate to be published as an Informational RFC. This item
- will be removed from the IESG management issues section of the agenda.
-
- 9. Steve Crocker initiated a discussion on the state of the IETF
- Handbook and what it should include. Basically, a document describing
- the IETF process (a la how a bill becomes law), and one which describes
- the roles and functions of the IETF working groups. Steve will review
- the wg guidelines I-D and provide comments. Erik and Dave Crocker
- reported that additional comments have been received since the
- Amsterdam IETF, some of which will be added to the I-D.
-
- 10. The IESG reviewed a proposal for how to handle documents from the IPng candidates, a follow on IESG policy statement. The proposal was:
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- 1. All IPng related i-d's go to experimental as they are ready
- 2. At some point, one IPng shall be selected, and it will be moved
- to the STD track as per RFC1310
- 3. Other IPng's may eventually be moved to historical, or may seek
- elective or recommened status for all or parts of the proposals,
- depending on the recommendation of the WGs. If recommended
- status is desired, a clear AS must differentiate between the
- uses that the technology selected as IPng is designed for and
- the uses that the other technology is for.
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- After some discussion on the use of Experimental versus Prototype, the IESG adopted the above position.
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- ACTION: Coya to draft policy statement for review. To be sent by the IESG Secretary on behalf of the IESG Chair.
-
- 11. Via an exchange of email messages, Dave Crocker reported that the
- dns WG reviewed the "Service Advertisement using the DNS" RFC
- submission and conveyed that review to the RFC Editor. While
- interesting, the reviewers felt it needed more, especially text as to
- why the authors think this is better than other mechanisms in this area
- (e.g. TCPMUX).
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