INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) November 18, 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, Philip / ANS Hinden, Robert / SUN Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Klensin, John / UNU Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / NRL Reynolds, Joyce / ISI IAB Liaison Yakov Rekhter / IBM Regrets Chapin, Lyman / BBN Huitema, Christian / INRIA Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore Rose, Marshall / DBC 1. Area Directors were reminded that a number of WG minutes and Area Reports are still outstanding, and that the cut-off date for Area Reports is November 26th. 2. The minutes from the October 21 IESG teleconference were approved. 3. The IESG approved "Telnet Environment Option" as a Proposed Standard. The IESG also approved the publication of "Telnet Environment Option Interoperability Issues" as an informational document. 4. Two concerns were voiced with the Classical IP and ARP over ATM document (submitted to the IESG as a Proposed Standard candidate). First, the document specifies the way in which virtual lans should communicate with each other. It was felt that this method should be recommended, but not required. Another concern was that the document was limited in applicability and needs to be clearer in its definitions. As an example, the word "classical" was not clear; it could mean IPv4 or it could mean the classical paradigm. Stev to discuss the with Dave Piscitello prior to conveying IESG concerns to the working group. 5. The IESG approved the publication of "Guidelines to OSPF/Frame Relay" as an Informational Document. 6. There was a discussion on the level of involvement that should be taken with respect to efforts on running EDI over the Internet, and whether or not the IESG should initiate IETF activities for transferring EDI traffic over the internet. The initial consensus was that the IETF should support commerce running over the net, but there was a desire for a more concrete statement of opinion. John Klensin and Dave Crocker agreed to produce a proposal to be submitted to the IESG for their consideration. 7. The IESG opted to have changes made to The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2 (aka 1310bis) prior to sending out a last call. Coya to extract messages that have been received on this and send them to the document authors (Huitema and Gross). Once the revised I-D is available, a last call will be sent.