INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) September 19, 1996 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 --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Baker, Fred / cisco Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / Baynetworks Carpenter, Brian / CERN (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 ------- Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the IESG teleconference on September 5 were approved. Steve to place in IETF shadow directories. 2. The IESG approved publication of IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response as a Proposed Standard. However, as it is dependent on HMAC-IP Authentication with Replay Prevention , the announcement will not be sent until the hmac document is approved. 3. The IESG approved publication of The Model Primary Content Type for MIME as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 4. The IESG approved publication of Definition of X.500 Attribute Types and an Object Class to Hold Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 5. The IESG approved publication of IRTF Research Group Guidelines and Procedures as a BCP. Steve to send announcement. 6. There was some discussion on the IESG note which was included in the Protocol Action announcement for the Hubbard document. It was suggested that the text be rephrased. Allison to provide text to serve as a starting point. Steve will send a note to RFC Editor requesting they not publish until the discussions are concluded. 7. The IESG approved the formation of the Uniform Resource Names WG (urn) in the Applications Area. 8. The IESG approved the formation of the IP over Cable Data Network WG (ipcdn) in the Internet Area. 9. The IESG approved publication of Mobility Support for Nimrod: Requirements and Solution Approaches as an Informational RFC, but noted that the title needs to be changed (the word Requirements not permitted in Informational RFCs). As Joel was not able to particiapte in the call, Steve will work with him off-line. 10. The IESG approved publication of Multicast Support for Nimrod: Requirements and Solution Approaches as an Informational RFC, but noted that the title needs to be changed (the word Requirements not permitted in Informational RFCs). As Joel was not able to particiapte in the call, Steve will work with him off-line. 11. The IESG approved publication of Network Renumbering Overview as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announcement. 12. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Mapping SNMPv2 onto SNMPv1 within a bi-lingual SNMP agent as an Informational RFC. Steve to send note to RFC Editor. 13. Action on IP Echo Host Service was deferred to give time for Jeff Schiller to review from a security perspective. 14. Steve reported that the WG Training session will be permanently rescheduled to Monday noon at IETF meetings. As an experiment, box lunches will be made available. To avoid 600 potential WG chairs, this will be limited to existing WG Chairs, BOF chairs, and potential chairs recommended by IESG members who reserve a lunch in advance.