Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) December 30, 1993 Reported by: Steve Coya, Acting IESG Secretary 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 8820945. For more information please contact the IESG Secretary. iesg-secretary@cnri.reston.va.us. ATTENDEES --------- Bradner, Scott / Harvard Coya, Steve / CNRI Crocker, Dave / SGI Crocker, Steve / TIS Gross, Phillip / ANS Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Klensin, John / UNU Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Piscitello, Dave / Core Competence Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) Rose, Marshall / DBC Regrets Chapin, Lyman / BBN Hinden, Robert / SUN Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison) Mankin, Allison / NRL 1. The minutes of the December 16 meeting were approved. Coya to place into public archives. 2. The IESG approved the publication of "Classical IP and ARP over ATM" as a Proposed Standard. It was asserted that while this has been approved for the standards track, this document is technically deficient as it may not scale well in the future, and will not move to DRAFT status without changes. Coya to send announcement to the IETF List and the RFC-Editor. 3. The IESG approved the publication of "PPP LCP Extensions" as a Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement to the IETF List and the RFC-Editor. 4. The IESG approved the publication of "Evolution of the Interfaces Group of MIB-II" as a proposed standard. The IESG also decided to reclassify RFC 1229 as Historic. Coya to send announcement to the IETF List and the RFC-Editor. 5. The IESG approved the elevation of RFC 1356 "Multiprotocol Interconnect on X.25 and ISDN in the Packet Mode" to DRAFT standard. Coya to send announcement to the IETF List and the RFC-Editor. 6. The IESG approved the creation of the ALE Working Group in the IPNG Area. Coya to send announcement to the IETF list. Note: Announcement can not be sent until the administrative information (list name, archive location, etc.) is provided. 7. Stev Knowles was selected as the IESG Liaison to the IAB/IESG Nominating Committee. Coya to convey this information to the Chair of the Nominating Commitee. 8. The IESG discussed the SNPP Informational RFC-to-be and the text that was cirulated by e-mail was tolerable and will be forwarded to the RFC Editor. 9. The IESG then reviewed e-mail messages pertaining to the text that might be added to RFCs conveying the opinion of the IESG. The revised text sent by Jon Postel was deemed acceptable, with the notation that all WG references be explicit. There was another set of text that explained the purpose and need for including such statemets which was also approved by the IESG. Phill Gross to incorporate this explanatory text into the revision of 1310bis. 10. There was some discussion on what steps should be taken when RFCs are not accurate, up-to-date, or reflect current practices, but the protocols themselves are widely used. There was no consensus reached during the teleconference, but the topic can (and probably will) re-appear on the IESG Mailing list. 11. The IESG members individually reviewed the status and plans for some of their Working Groups. 12. It was suggested that the Host Requirements Document might be out of date as it does not include references to CIDR. 13. The message suggesting a set of Default IETF Meeting sites was discussed. Though no consensus was reached wrt the suggestions for implementing, the main point of agreement was that IETF meetings need to be scheduled further out, at least 2 years.