INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) June 8, 1995 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 8820945. For more information please contact the IESG Secretary at . ATTENDEES --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Bradner, Scott / Harvard Coya, Steve / CNRI Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software Klensin, John / MCI Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs Mankin, Allison / ISI Mockapetris, Paul / ISI O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Schiller, Jeff / MIT Thomson, Susan / Bellcore Regrets ------- Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison) Minutes ------- 1. The IESG approved the minutes of the IESG Retreat (held April 26 & April 27), and the minutes of the May 18 teleconference. Coya to place in Shadow sites. 2. The IESG approved the publication of The Content-MD5 Header Field as a Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement. 5. The IESG approved the creation of the One-Time Password Authentication (otp) Working Group in the Security Area. 6. The IESG approved the appointment of Michael Everson as the language tag reviewer (per procedures documented in RFC1766). 7. The IESG reviewed the current situation WRT character sets used in the Internet community, and the different sets that have been proposed for use in the future. The consensus was that no one set will meet everyone's desires, and the use of multiple character sets will increase the potential for implementations which are not compatible. The approach should be to find a solution that meets the needs of a majority of the Internet users. However, with no specific proposal on the table, no conclusion was reached. 8. Concern was raised on the potential for presentations made in BOF sessions to be incorrectly used as a marketing ploy ("presented at the IETF" implying acceptance). The consensus was that ADs need to convey what is and is not acceptable to presentors PRIOR to the sessions being conducted. Futher, if a BOF results in a charter submission, the description of the working group needed to be "squeeky clean" in order to be established. 9. Input from the IESG was requested by the RFC Editor in the preparation of the proposed "Good Practices" status level for RFCs. Mike O'Dell was specifically asked to review and I-D written by Yakov and Tony Li. As this I-D has long since expired, Scott said he'd get his copy and send it to Mike. 10. The IAB's reaction to the proposed MSGWay WG charter was conveyed to the IESG, and a new, more focused-less promotional, WG description is expected from Danny Cohen (proposed chair). Paul said he would speak with Danny on this subject.