Minutes interim-1997-iesg-06 1997-03-20 16:30
minutes-interim-1997-iesg-06-199703201630-00

											
Minutes of the IESG Teleconferences

    INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG)
    March 20, 1997

    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

    ATTENDEES
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    Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett
    Baker, Fred / cisco
    Bradner, Scott / Harvard
    Burgan, Jeff / Baynetworks
    Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison)
    Coya, Steve / CNRI
    Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison)
    Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software
    Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs
    Mankin, Allison / Information Sciences Institute
    Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee
    O'Dell, Mike / UUNET
    Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
    Romanow, Allyn / Sun
    Schiller, Jeff / MIT

    Regrets
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    Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks

    Minutes
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    1. The minutes of the March 6 Teleconference were approved. Steve to
    place in public archives.

    2. The IESG approved publication of XDR: External Data Representation
    Standad <RFC1832> as a Draft Standard. Steve to send announcement.

    3. The IESG approved publication of Basic Socket Interface Extensions
    for IPv6 <draft-ietf-ipngwg-bsd-api-07.txt> as an Informational
    document. Steve to send announcement.

    4. The IESG approved creation of the WWW Distributed Authoring and
    Versioning (webdav) Working Group in the Applications Area.

    5. The IESG approved creation of the SNMP - Version 3 (SNMPv3) Working
    Group in the Operations & Management Area of the IETF modulo minor
    edits to be made prior to announcement. Mike will be the primary AD
    for this WG.

    6. The IESG approved creation of the Telnet TN3270 Enhancements
    (tn3270e) Working Group in the Applications Area of the IETF.

    7. Allyn reported that she would contact the author of TCP Control
    Block Interdependence <draft-touch-tcp-interdep-00.txt> with
    suggestions to be incorporated. Steve to send note to RFC Editor
    requesting the document not be published as is, but that an update
    is anticipated.

    8. Harald said he would contact the authors of Update of Korean
    Character Encoding for Internet Messages
    <draft-rfced-info-kim-00.txt>. Steve to request the RFC Editors
    not publish the document.

    9. The IESG felt that publication of Practical Approach to Improving
    Scalability and Interoperability of SNMP Applications
    <draft-rfced-info-romanov-00.txt> shpuld receive wider review and
    be brought into the IETF. Steve to convey this to the RFC EDitor.

    10. Steve reviewed his plans to move forward with his plan for
    host-independent IETF meetings, with an objective of being able to
    reserve large hotels further in the future. When asked, Steve
    reported that hosts are still a necessity for non-US IETF
    meetings.

    11. The IAB has requested that announcements be sent when IESG meeting
    minutes are made available. Steve said he would handle this. Brian
    asked that Steve also send out announcements for IAB meeting
    minutes. Steve said he would handle this as well.

    There was also some discussion on announcing when IETF meeting
    minutes were received. Steve said he'd make sure periodic
    announcements would be sent listing all groups whose minutes have
    been received.

    12. Frank said goodnight.