Minutes interim-1997-iesg-15 1997-09-25 15:30
minutes-interim-1997-iesg-15-199709251530-00

											
Minutes of the IESG Teleconferences

    INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG)
    September 25, 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
    in part 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 / @home
    Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison)
    Coya, Steve / CNRI
    Curran, John / GTE Internetworking
    Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison)
    Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee
    Narten, Thomas / IBM
    Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
    Romanow, Allyn / Sun
    Schiller, Jeff / MIT

    Regrets
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    Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks
    O'Dell, Mike / UUNET

    Minutes
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    1. The minutes of the September 11 Teleconference were approved. Steve to
    place in public archives.

    2. The IESG approved creation of An Open Specification for Pretty Good
    Privacy (OpenPGP) Working Group in the Security Area. Steve to send
    announcement.

    3. The IESG approved publication of Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center
    Stage on the Internet <draft-ietf-harts-guide-03.txt> as an Informational
    RFC. Steve to send announcement.

    4. The IESG approved publication of Telnet Comport Control Option
    <draft-clark-telnet-control-05.txt> as an Experimental Protocol. Steve to
    send announcement.

    5. The IESG consenus on Communicating Information for External Program Use in
    Internet Messages: The Process Content-Disposition Type
    <draft-rfced-exp-whalen-00.txt> was that it NOT be published as an
    Experimental Protocol. Keith will be discussing the IESG concerns with the
    author. Steve to inform the RFC Editors.

    6. After reviewing Confirmation of Mail Message Reception
    <draft-rfced-exp-steinberg-00.txt> it was noted that the RECEIPT working
    group has already developed a solution to this problem, which is currently
    in Last Call for proposed standard status. Keith has notified the author
    and asked that he review it. Consensus was that the document NOT be
    published at this time. Steve to inform the RFC Editors.

    7. The IESG discussed the current organizational structure of the IESG,
    focusing on the impact since the Network Management Area was dissolved.
    Viewpoints were mixed as both benefits and deficiencies were noted. The
    idea of re-establishing the NM area was discussed. Fred will initiate an
    email thread on this topic, which will be on the next IESG agenda.

    8. Steve noted that now was a good time to start thinking about Technical
    Presentations at the DC IETF meeting.

    9. It was decided that the Thursday plenary would be subdivided as follows:

    1530-1730 Technical Presentations
    1730-1800 IAB Open Session
    1800-1900 IESG Open Plenary

    10. The IESG agreed that RSVP Cryptographic Authentication
    <draft-ietf-rsvp-md5-05.txt> was not necessary to implement the set of
    INTSERV and RSVP documents previously approved. Steve to send note to the
    RFC Editors, requesting that the references to the MD5 document be
    changed, referring to it as a work in progress, and to proceed with the
    publication of the remaining documents set.

    TTFN - next telechat will be October 9.