INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) April 18, 2001 Reported by: Steve Coya, IETF Executive Director ATTENDEES --------- Ahuja, Abha / Merit Alvestrand, Harald / Cisco Beaulieu, Marcia / IETF Bradner, Scott / Harvard Bellovin, Steve / AT&T Labs (IAB Liaison) Bush, Randy / Verio Coltun, Rob / Redback Networks Coya, Steve / IETF Faltstrom, Patrik / Cisco Freed, Ned / Innosoft Klensin, John / AT&T (IAB Chair) Leech, Marcus / Nortel Mankin, Allison / ISI Marine, April / Nominum Narten, Thomas / IBM Nordmark, Erik / Sun Schiller, Jeff / MIT Wijnen, Bert / Lucent Regrets ------- Reynolds, Joyce K. / ISI (RFC Editor) Michellie Schipper / ICANN Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the April 5 Teleconference were approved. Steve to place in public archives. 2. The IESG tentatively approved creation of the Pseudo-Wire Edge-to-Edge Emulation (pwe3) Working Group in the Transport Area. Some minor charter changes are to be provided by Allison to Thomas. When Thomas signs off, Steve to send announcement. 3. The IESG tentatively approved the charter update for the Open Shortest Path First (ospf) Working Group. Rob to provide failsafe text. When received, Steve to update OSPF WG record (and close down MOSPF). 4. The IESG approved publication of Electronic Signature Formats for long term electronic signatures as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announcement. 5. The IESG approved publication of Electronic Signature Policies as an Experimental RFC. Steve to send announcement. 6. Action on An Overview of the SCTP was held over for Thomas to review. The IESG will request the document title be changed to "An introduction to SCTP" if/when approved for publication. 7. The IESG tentatively approved publication of Performance Enhancing Proxies as an Informational RFC. An update is expected to include "motivational" text to be provided by Allison. Erik to review. Once accepted, Steve to announce. 8. The IESG tentatively approved publication of Extended Allocations in 233/8 as an Experimental RFC. The document needs spruced up Security section and the IESG needs acknowledgement note from IANA. Thomas to review and let Steve know all is good. At that point, Steve can announce. 9. The IESG felt that EtherIP: Tunnelling Ethernet Frames in IP was not a document to be published as an Informational RFC. Scott to draft the DNP text. 10. The IESG concensus was that PGM Reliable Transport Protocol conflicted with RMT work underway on congestion control. Scott to tell author to rewrite after RMT work is completed. 11. The IESG felt that Geographic registration of HTML documents should be reviewed by the GEOLOC group. Steve to inform RFC Editor, Patrik and/or Ned to convey to author. 12. An update to PPPoE Extensions For Seamless Service Selection expected. The expectation is that the update will result in a brand new (ie. different) document, so Steve is to REMOVE this from the IESG list. Thomas to inform authors; Steve to convey to rfc EDITOR. 13. The IESG had no problem with the publication of A URN Namespace for OASIS as an Informational RFC. Steve to inform RFC Editor. 14. The IESG had no problem with the publication of A URN Namespace for XML.org as an Informational RFC. Steve to inform RFC Editor. 15. The IESG had no problem with the publication of 3GPP-IETF Standardization Collaboration . Steve to inform RFC Editor, noting that the location information for the author is missing. 16. Action on Notes from the State-Of-The-Technology: DNSSEC was deferred for Thomas to send comments to the author. 17. The IESG had no problem with the publication of On the Design of Application Protocols as an Informational RFC. Steve to notify RFC Editor. 18. The IESG believes that Preparation of text in RFC style should be reviewed by the RFC Editor.