INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) October 31, 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 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 Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Romanow, Allyn / Sun Regrets ------- Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / Baynetworks Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Schiller, Jeff / MIT Minutes ------- 1. The IESG approved the minutes of the October 17 teleconference. Steve to place in IETF Shadow Directories. 2. The IESG approved publication of The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP) as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 3. The IESG approved creation of the Application Configuration Access Protocol (acap) WG in the Applications Area. 4. Action was deferred on HTTP State Management Mechanism pending arrival of a new Internet-Draft addressing the issues raised by the IESG. 5. The IESG directed Steve to send a note to Scott asking him to review the Internet-Draft Defending Against IP Source Address Spoofing , evaluating how close it is to the ferguson-ingress-filtering I-D, and determine the next step (what should be conveyed to the RFC Editor with respect to the spoofing document. 6. The IESG approved the idea that no WG will receive 3 meeting slots at an IETF meeting until all other requests have been accommodated. If a third slot is provided, it will be scheduled either Friday mornings or during one of the night sessions.