INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) February 23, 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 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 Mockapetris, Paul / ISI O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Rose, Marshall / DBC Schiller, Jeff / MIT Topolcic, Claudio / BBN Regrets ------- Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / ISI Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) MINUTES ------- 1. The IESG approved the minutes from the February 9 teleconference. Coya to place copy in IETF Shadow directories. 2. The IESG decided to hold a meeting of the IESG and WG Chairs on Monday morning (8-9AM) in Danvers. Steve reported that an IESG Morning room will be available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings. There will be no morning room on Friday, though a room will be reserved for the IESG and IAB (current and new) to meet jointly that day. 3. There will be a Poised meeting Monday morning in Danvers. Marshall Rose will chair the meeting. Primary objective is to define the new charter as well as new milestones. 4. The IESG approved the publication of MIME Encapsulation of EDI Objects as a Proposed Standard. 5. The IESG approved the publication of TFTP Option Extension TFTP Blocksize Option TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options TFTP Option Negotiation Analysis - Informational with the understanding that new versions of the I-Ds are made available. These revisions include editorial changes requested by IESG members. The announcement will not be sent until the new versions are publically available. 6. The IESG approved the publication of "The PPP Banyan Vines Control Protocol (BVCP)" as a Proposed Standard. 7. The IESG approved the publication of "The PPP XNS IDP Control Protocol (XNSCP)" as a Proposed Standard. 8. The IESG approved the publication of "The PPP DECnet Phase IV Control Protocol (DNCP)" as a Draft Standard. 9. The IESG approved the publication of "Tags for the identification of languages" as a Proposed Standard. 10. The IESG had no problems with the publication of "OSPF Database Overflow" as an Experimental Protocol. 11. The IESG approved the re-chartering of the RIPv2 Working Group as RIP with the following revised milestones: May 95 Submit RIPng Internet-Draft for consideration as a Proposed Standard. MUST be accompanied by a suitably restrictive Applicability Statement. Jul 95 Meet at Stockholm IETF. Review status of MD5 for elevation to Draft. Review status of RIP-2 and MIB for elevation to Standard. A suitably restrictive Applicability Statement for RIPv2 MUST accompany the request for elevation. 12. The IESG approved the creation of the DLSw MIB Working Group. 13. The IESG discussed the proposal to send a note to the IETF community requesting the community to grant a one-time expemption from the procedures documented in RFC1602 so that the documents from the ONCRPC Working Group could be moved onto the standards track, would would result in a "social contract" with Sun and the IETF. The consensus of the IESG was that the concept of a social contract served no real useful purpose, and that it would be difficult to enter into an agreement with one organization while not providing the same terms and conditions to others. As such, the proposal was rejected.