Minutes interim-1995-iesg-09 1995-06-08 15:30
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Minutes of the IESG Teleconferences

    INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG)
    June 8, 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
    <iesg-secretary@ietf.cnri.reston.va.us>.

    ATTENDEES
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    Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett
    Bradner, Scott / Harvard
    Coya, Steve / CNRI
    Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software
    Klensin, John / MCI
    Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs
    Mankin, Allison / ISI
    Mockapetris, Paul / ISI
    O'Dell, Mike / UUNET
    Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison)
    Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
    Schiller, Jeff / MIT
    Thomson, Susan / Bellcore

    Regrets
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    Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks
    Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison)

    Minutes
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    1. The IESG approved the minutes of the IESG Retreat (held April 26 &
    April 27), and the minutes of the May 18 teleconference. Coya to
    place in Shadow sites.

    2. The IESG approved the publication of The Content-MD5 Header Field
    <RFC1544) as a Draft Standard. John Klensin to provide additional
    text to be included with the protocol announcement. Once received,
    Coya to send announcement.

    3. A decision on RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
    was deferred to permit additional time for IESG review and comment.
    If all IESGers convey an opinion via email, Coya can send the
    announcement. If unresolved by the next IESG teleconference, this
    item will be added to the agenda.

    4. The IESG approved the publication of Relative Uniform Resource
    Locators <draft-ietf-uri-relative-url-06.txt> as a Proposed
    Standard. Coya to send announcement.

    5. The IESG approved the creation of the One-Time Password
    Authentication (otp) Working Group in the Security Area.

    6. The IESG approved the appointment of Michael Everson as the
    language tag reviewer (per procedures documented in RFC1766).

    7. The IESG reviewed the current situation WRT character sets used in
    the Internet community, and the different sets that have been
    proposed for use in the future. The consensus was that no one set
    will meet everyone's desires, and the use of multiple character
    sets will increase the potential for implementations which are not
    compatible. The approach should be to find a solution that meets
    the needs of a majority of the Internet users.

    However, with no specific proposal on the table, no conclusion was
    reached.

    8. Concern was raised on the potential for presentations made in BOF
    sessions to be incorrectly used as a marketing ploy ("presented at
    the IETF" implying acceptance). The consensus was that ADs need to
    convey what is and is not acceptable to presentors PRIOR to the
    sessions being conducted. Futher, if a BOF results in a charter
    submission, the description of the working group needed to be
    "squeeky clean" in order to be established.

    9. Input from the IESG was requested by the RFC Editor in the
    preparation of the proposed "Good Practices" status level for RFCs.
    Mike O'Dell was specifically asked to review and I-D written by
    Yakov and Tony Li. As this I-D has long since expired, Scott said
    he'd get his copy and send it to Mike.

    10. The IAB's reaction to the proposed MSGWay WG charter was conveyed
    to the IESG, and a new, more focused-less promotional, WG
    description is expected from Danny Cohen (proposed chair). Paul
    said he would speak with Danny on this subject.