INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) February 6, 1997 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 / IBM UK (IAB Liaison) Coya, Steve / CNRI Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison) Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / Information Sciences Institute Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Romanow, Allyn / Sun Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the January 23 teleconference were approved. Steve to copy to IETF Shadow directories. 2. The IESG approved publication of Secure Domain Name System Dynamic Update as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 3. The IESG approved publication of Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. 4. The IESG tentatively approved publication of XDR: External Data Representation Standard as a Draft Standard. However, a detailed implementation report must be submitted to the IESG. When the report is issued, and each HOLD is explicitly removed, Steve will to send the announcement. If the announcement has not been sent, this item will be returned to the IESG Active agenda. 5. The IESG discussed the Service Location Protocol Internet-Draft and decided to let the WG determine which path to take: 1. Revised the document to enhance overall security. Jeff Schiller will work directly with the WG to produce a document for publication as a Proposed Standard. 2. Submit the document for publication as an Experimental Protocol, in which case Jeff will write an IESG note. Jeff will rewrite his previous message to the IESG. This note will be forwarded to the WG by the Frank (AD). 6. The IESG approved publication of Issues affecting MARS Cluster Size as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announcement. 7. The IESG approved creation of the TCP Implementation (tcpimpl) Working Group in the Transport Area. 8. The Transport ADs will talk to the authors of AT&T/Neda's Efficient Short Remote Operations (ESRO) Protocol Specification Version 1.2 about bringing the work into the IETF. It is anticipated that a Last Call will be issued for this document to be published as an Informational RFC. 9. A note will be sent to the RFC Editors requesting that IP over MAPOS Version 1 not be published as an RFC for the following reasons: 1. It uses the same hardware address value as Ethernet does for the ARP packets. This is very wrong. They should get their own number. 2. The document does not address running IPv6 over their medium. It should. If the document is to be revised, it is suggested that the authors make the following changes: o The arp packets should use only 8 bits for their hardware address, not the 32 bits currently specified. o The document should not replicate the arp packet format. It should simply refer to the arp RFC. 10. The working groups in the Network Management Area were re-allocated as follows: Working Group New Area ------------- -------- 100VG-AnyLAN MIB (vgmib) INT AToM MIB (atommib) INT Application MIB (applmib) APP Bridge MIB (bridge) OPS DS1/DS3 MIB (trunkmib) INT Data Link Switching MIB (dlswmib) RTG Distributed Management (disman) OPS Entity MIB (entmib) OPS Frame Relay Service MIB (frnetmib) INT IEEE 802.3 Hub MIB (hubmib) OPS IPv6 MIB (ipv6mib) INT ISDN MIB (isdnmib) INT Physical Topology MIB (ptopomib) OPS Printer MIB (printmib) APP Remote Network Monitoring (rmonmib) OPS SNA DLC Services MIB (snadlc) RTG SNA NAU Services MIB (snanau) RTG SNMP Agent Extensibility (agentx) OPS Uninterruptible Power Supply (upsmib) OPS Steve will send a note to the Network Management Chairs, including the above realignments. 11. The Network Management WGs listed below have concluded, and no re-allocation is intended. Character MIB (charmib) DECnet Phase IV MIB (decnetiv) FDDI MIB (fddimib) Host Resources MIB (hostmib) Modem Management (modemmgt) RDBMS MIB (rdbmsmib) X.25 MIB (x25mib) SNMP Version 2 (snmpv2) Note: A charter is expected for SNMPng, a new WG in the OPS Area. 12. Additional discussions will be held to determine the "home" area for the Interfaces MIB (ifmib) WG. 13. The final part of the IESG area reorganization will be the renaming of the Operational Requirements Area to Operations and Management Area. 14. There are currenty two tunneling protocols in Last Call, and other tunnelling efforts underway in the IETF. Scott is to draft a Request for Opinions... uh, comments...to be sent to the IETF community. 15. It was decided to add the two new IESG members (John Curran and Tom Narten) to the IESG email list now instead of waiting until they became IESG members (st the close of the Memhis meeting). Steve to make it so. 16. Fred reported that ITU SC16 (multi-media study group) wants a formal liaison with the IETF. There is also a need to designate a new liason to the IAB and SC6 (both currently filled by Allison). 17. Frank was reminded to send a note to the author of Political Disclosure Transmission Protocol (DISCLOSE) clarifying the IESG's opinion. 18. Jeff was reminded to send a note to the author of Security Industry Internet Protocol for Alarm Transmission (SIIPAT) Fini