INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) August 3, 1995 Reported by: Steve Coya, IETF Executive Director 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-9528103. For more information please contact the IESG Secretary at . ATTENDEES --------- Carpenter, Brian / CERN (IAB Liaison) Coya, Steve / CNRI Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software Klensin, John / MCI Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs Mankin, Allison / ISI Mockapetris, Paul / @home Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Rekhter, Yakov / cisco (IAB Liaison) Schiller, Jeff / MIT Thomson, Susan / Bellcore Regrets ------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Bradner, Scott / Harvard O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the July 6 IESG teleconference were approved. Coya to place in Shadow Directories. 2. The IESG approved the publication of OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base as a Draft Standard. Joel reported that some editorial notes needed to be added to the Protocol Action writeup. Once received, Coya to send announcement. 3. The IESG approved the publication of IP Forwarding Table MIB as a Proposed Standard. Joel reported that some editorial notes needed to be added to the Protocol Action writeup. Once received, Coya to send announcement. 4. The IESG approved the creation of the Receipt Notifications for Internet Mail (receipt) Working Group in the Applications Area. 5. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent checklist as an Informational RFC. 6. The IESG discussed The Exponential Security System TESS, an individual submission to the RFC Editor for publication as an Informational RFC. There is a great deal of concern about documents being published as RFCs, and that Informational RFCs are not intended as an alternative to publication in regular peer reviewed academic journals of material more appropriate for such journals. Coya to send a note to the RFC Editor stating that while there is no problem with the publication of this document as an Informational RFC, the IESG would like the RFC Editor to consider whether such submissions are suitable for publication as an RFC, and have an alternative to suggest document publication elsewhere. 7. The IESG decided it was time to move forward with the Variance document . Coya to send a 4 week Last Call announcement to the IETF.