IETF STEERING GROUP (IESG) REPORT FROM THE TELECONFERENCE August 10th, 1992 Reported by: Greg Vaudreuil, IESG Secretary This report contains IESG meeting notes, positions and action items. For more information please contact the IESG Secretary. iesg-secretary@nri.reston.va.us ATTENDEES --------- Almquist, Philip / Consultant Borman, David / Cray Research Crocker, Steve / TIS Davin, Chuck / MIT Gross, Philip / ANS Hinden, Robert / SUN Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore Vaudreuil, Greg / CNRI Regrets Crocker, Dave / TBO Coya, Steve / CNRI Hobby, Russ / UC-DAVIS Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Stockman, Bernard / SUNET/NORDUnet AGENDA ------ 1. Administrivia o Bash the Agenda o Approve Minutes - July 27th o Next Meeting o Action Items 2. Protocol Actions o PPP Authentication o Van Jacobsen Header Compression o IP and ARP on HIPPI o PPP NCP for OSI o PPP NCP for AppleTalk o Telnet Remote Flow Control Option o Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots o String Representation of Distinguished Names o Ethernet MIB 3. Technical Management Issues o OSPF AS o SNMP Evolution o IETF Working Group on IETF/IAB Interactions MINUTES ------- 1) Administrivia o Approval of the Minutes The IESG approved the minutes of the July 27th IESG meeting. o Action Items The IESG has been reviewing action items by email, and made plans to review outstanding actions at the next meeting. o Next Meeting The next meeting was scheduled for August 17th. The IESG will try to meet weekly for the next several weeks to clear away a growing backlog of protocol and management issues. 2) Protocol Actions o PPP Authentication The PPP Authentication protocol is nearing the end of its long journey toward Proposed Standard. The token is currently with the Working Group. ACTION: S. Crocker: Make sure the PPP Authentication guys finally reach agreement on the remaining issues with PPP Authentication. o TCP/IP Header Compression Little progress has been made in identifying the items that need clarification in the Header Compression document. Because Noel Chiappa has left the IESG, the responsibility for this protocol has been passed to Dave Borman. o IP and ARP over HIPPI The Internet Draft "IP and ARP over HIPPI" was reviewed by Philip Almquist. This is a large and relatively complex document explaining how to run IP and ARP over HIPPI channel. HIPPI was originally intended as a high speed bus, but with the introduction of switches has become more LAN-like. In addressing the issues involved with running ARP over HIPPI, the document goes to some length to clarify the model HIPPI as a LAN. The IESG discussed the scope of the document and whether it was appropriate for the IETF to standardize a document dealing with the use of HIPPI as a LAN, and agreed that in so far as this needed to be addressed for ARP and IP to function on HIPPI, it was acceptable. ACTION: Borman -- Review for technical accuracy and editorial completeness the IP and ARP over HIPPI document. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- With the review and of Dave Borman, craft and send a recommendation to the IAB to publish IP and ARP over HIPPI as a Proposed Standard. o PPP NCP for CLNP Philip Almquist reviewed the Internet Draft "The PPP OSI Network Layer Control Protocol (OSINLCP)" and determined that the document acceptable as a Proposed Standard. ACTION: Piscitello -- Provide an additional review of the OSI NCP document. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- With Piscitello's review of the document, craft and send a recommendation to the IAB to publish the PPP NCP for OSI as a Proposed Standard. o PPP NCP for AppleTalk Philip Almquist reviewed the Internet Draft "The PPP AppleTalk Control Protocol (ATCP)" and determined that the document was acceptable as a Proposed Standard. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Craft and send a recommendation to the IAB to publish the PPP NCP for AppleTalk as a Proposed Standard. o Telnet Remote Control Option The Internet Draft "Telnet Remote Flow Control Option" was written by Dave Borman and was reviewed by Russ Hobby. The IESG approved this document as a Proposed Standard. ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Craft and Send a recommendation to the IAB to publish the Telnet Remote Flow Control Option as a Proposed Standard. o Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots o String Representation of Distinguished Names Comments were received by the IESG on these documents and the documents are being edited to reflect the positive comments. IESG consideration will be delayed until current versions of the protocols are available. o Ethernet MIB Comments were received by the IESG during the last call period. These comments are currently being incorporated into the document. IESG consideration will be deferred until a new version will be posted as an Internet Draft. 3) Technical Management Issues o OSPF AS After a long delay, the IAB Applicability Statement (AS) for OSPF to be the "common" Interior Gateway Protocol is ready to be advanced as a Proposed Standard. Because of the large delay between the IESG recommendation and the IAB document, the IESG recommendation appears quite dated. The IESG discussed the possibility of updating the recommendation or merely asking that it not be published as an RFC and not referenced in the IAB AS. The IESG agreed that publishing the recommendation was a good thing, but not wanting to delay the OSPF AS any longer, opted to decouple the two documents. Time permitting, the IESG recommendation will be re-worded and published as an RFC, however, the IAB AS should be posted as soon as possible, without the reference to the IESG recommendation if necessary. ACTION: Gross -- Notify the IAB that the IESG does not want the OSPF AS delayed pending IESG rewrite of their recommendation and encourages the IAB to post the AS as an Internet Draft as soon as possible. ACTION: Gross -- Update the IESG recommendation that OSPF be chosen as the Common IGP and submit it as an RFC. o SNMP Evolution. Chuck Davin prepared a note outlining a course of action in moving toward a new version of SNMP. The IESG reviewed this note, and with specific changes endorsed it. After the note is sent to the IETF, the IESG plans to review the charter of the SNMP Evolution Working Group pending the selection of a chair. ACTION: Davin -- Send the SNMP Evolution plan to the IETF. ACTION: Davin, Vaudreuil -- Craft and get IESG approval of charter for the SNMP Evolution Working Group charter. o Proposed IETF Working Group on IETF/IAB procedures. The IAB is working with the ISOC Board to form an IETF Working Group to review and improve the procedures by which the IETF and the IAB make standards. The IESG was given a draft version of this proposal for comments and the IESG had no objections. ACTION: Gross -- Convey to the IAB the IESG agreement with the IAB/ISOC plan to create an IETF working group to examine the procedures of the IETF and IAB.