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REPORT FROM THE TELECONFERENCE
October 19th, 1992
Reported by: Greg Vaudreuil, IESG Secretary
This report contains IESG meeting notes, positions and action items.
For more information please contact the IESG Secretary.
ATTENDEES
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Almquist, Philip / Consultant
Crocker, Dave / TBO
Crocker, Steve / TIS
Coya, Steve / CNRI
Davin, Chuck / Bellcore
Gross, Philip / ANS
Hinden, Robert / SUN
Hobby, Russ / UC-DAVIS
Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
Reynolds, Joyce / ISI
Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore
Stockman, Bernard / SUNET/NORDUnet
Vaudreuil, Greg / CNRI
Regrets
Borman, David / Cray Research
AGENDA
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1) Administivia
o Role Call
o Bash the Agenda
o Approval of the Minutes
o Date of next IESG Teleconference
2) Protocol Action
o IP over FDDI to Draft
o Network Time Protocol V3 to Draft Standard
o Token Ring MIB
o Concise MIB definitions to Draft
o IP Addressing Guidelines
o RIP Version 2
o RIP Version 2 MIB
o RIP Protocol Analysis
o Ident, Ident MIB
4) Technical Management Issues
o SMTP Extensions
o ROAD Activities
o New IESG Area Directors
o Better Technical review/guidance (continuation)
MINUTES
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1) Administrivia
o Approval of the Minutes
The IESG approved the minutes of the October 1th Teleconference.
o Next Meeting
The IESG set dates for October 23, 11am-1pm ET, November 2nd and
November 9th 12-2 ET.
2) Protocol Actions
o IP over FDDI
A revised version of the IP over FDDI Specification was posted as an
Internet Draft reflecting updates to the protocol specification to
match the current use of the protocol. In particular, references to
dual MAC use were deleted and support of hardware type 6 was
dropped, a relic of RFC 1103.
The IESG discussed the requirements for Draft and Standard status
and how IP over FDDI satisfied these requirements. Discussion on
the general issue is recorded in the technical management section of
these minutes. IP over FDDI was approved for Full Standard.
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Send a recommendation to the IAB requesting that
IP over FDDI published as a Draft Standard protocol.
o Network Time Protocol
The Network Time Protocol has remained in grade long enough to be
advanced to Draft Standard status. The IESG and RFC Editor have
agreed that the Postscript document can remain the primary document
given the current sub-optimal ASCII specification. The IESG is
aware of two implementations of the protocol, one for the Fuzzball
and one for generic Unix platforms. It is not clear whether these
implementations are sufficiently independent for elevation for Draft
Standard.
ACTION: Hobby -- Investigate the two NTP implementations and determine
if these implementations are sufficiently independent to validate the
specification as required for Draft Standard.
o Token Ring MIB
Work is still underway to determine if the Token Ring MIB has
sufficient implementation experience to be elevated to Draft
Standard.
o Concise MIB Definitions
The IESG review RFC 1212, "Concise MIB Definitions" and approved a
recommendation to elevate it to Standard status. This MIB format
extensions should be considered part of the SMI standard and should
be given the same requirement level as SNMP itself, recommended.
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- With Chuck Davin, write and send a recommendation
to the IAB to elevate RFC 1212 to Standard.
o IP Addressing Guidelines
The IESG discussed the IP Addressing Proposal and the comments
received early in the last call period. It appears that this
document may have been sent to the IESG a bit pre-maturely and may
not have the necessary consensus.
ACTION: Gross, Stockman -- Investigate and report on the consensus for
the specific IP addressing guidelines contained in the IP Addressing
Guidelines document.
There is an ongoing discussion with the IAB about the choice of
Proposed Standard as a designation for this document. This is both
a policy document for the assignment of IP Addresses and a technical
architecture for CIDR. The IESG is aware that another version of
this document will be submitted to the Internet Drafts directory
which may split the document into two. The IESG agreed that the
addressing guidelines themselves should be an informational document
that should be adopted as policy by relevant operational bodies.
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- List the IP Addressing Guidelines as awaiting a new document and remove it from the IESG agenda.
ACTION: Gross, Stockman -- Insure that a new version of the IP
Addressing Guidelines are posted as an Internet Draft.
o RIP Version 2
There was nothing to report.
o Ident, Ident MIB
Agreement on the wording about the use of character sets in IDENT
has been reached and a new version of the document will be posted to
the Internet Drafts directories shortly.
3) Technical Management Issues
o SMTP Extensions
After the last IESG communication to the Working Group, it appears
the group has begun lively discussions and had made significant
progress on the technical issues raised during the last call.
Closure still seems elusive and the current impasse seems to be over
matters of document style and content. It was suggested to the
Applications AD that intervention would be a good thing, either by
proposing a strawman solution or actively drawing consensus from the
current discussion on the mailing list.
ACTION: Hobby - Make a strawman proposal or a summary of current
progress to the working group mailing list to facilitate movement.
o Document/Protocol Review
The IESG has been working on a standardize checklist to aid in the
though evaluation of protocols. This checklist has been circulated
in draft form and with additional edits is intended to be used by
Working Group chairmen prior to sending a protocol to the IESG.
Information to be supplied includes a list of implementations and a
gauge of the operational testing and deployment of a protocol.
ACTION: Coya -- Find and send to the IESG the latest checklist
guidelines for protocol advancement.
2) Poised Working Group Progress
The Poised Working Group mailing list has been very active. To help
channel this activity and facilitate closure on a specific proposal,
Carl Malamud has been asked to prepare a draft proposal from the
discussions on the list and discussions with key participants.
o New IESG Area Directors
With the departure of Noel Chiappa and Susan Estrada, there are
several openings on the IESG. The IESG has discussed moving OSI
protocols into the areas where they would naturally fall as a means
of increasing integration and coordination with the current
protocols. Moving addressing into the Routing Area was also
discussed. The IESG discussed an area re-alignment but did not reach
a firm discussion and scheduled a follow up teleconference for this
Friday to resolve the remaining issues.
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Prepare an agenda for the (mostly) single topic
November 2th teleconference on IESG structure.
Appendix - Action Items
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Send a recommendation to the IAB requesting that
IP over FDDI published as a Standard protocol.
ACTION: Hobby -- Investigate the two NTP implementations and determine
if these implementations are sufficiently independent to validate the
specification as required for Draft Standard.
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- With Chuck Davin, write and send a recommendation
to the IAB to elevate RFC 1212 to Standard.
ACTION: Gross, Stockman -- Investigate and report on the consensus for
the specific IP addressing guidelines contained in the IP Addressing
Guidelines document.
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- List the IP Addressing Guidelines as Working Group
Discuss pending a new document.
ACTION: Gross, Stockman -- Insure that a new version of the IP
Addressing Guidelines are posted as an Internet Draft.
ACTION: Hobby - Make a strawman proposal or a summary of current
progress to the working group mailing list to facilitate movement.
ACTION: Coya -- Find and send to the IESG the latest checklist
guidelines for protocol advancement.
ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Prepare an agenda for the (mostly) single topic
November 2th teleconference on IESG structure
Appendix - Mailing List discussions
o IP Addressing Guidelines.
Discussion has continued on the IP Addressing guidelines document.
It is clear that an addressing plan like the one proposed is
necessary for CIDR to operate and that a uniform policy is needed.
Whether a required policy is a standard is unclear but agreement that
these guidelines were something that needs to be endorsed by the
IAB/IESG.