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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 was that it NOT be published as an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 Consensus was that the document NOT be
published at this time.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.