INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) September 14, 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-9528103 For more information please contact the IESG Secretary at . ATTENDEES --------- Coya, Steve / CNRI Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software Klensin, John / MCI Mankin, Allison & family / ISI & Mankin Productions O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Schiller, Jeff / MIT Thomson, Susan / Bellcore Regrets ------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Bradner, Scott / Harvard Carpenter, Brian / CERN (IAB Liaison) Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs Mockapetris, Paul / @home Rekhter, Yakov / cisco (IAB Liaison) Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Minutes ------- 1. The minutes from the August 31 teleconference were approved. Coya to place in Shadow directories. 2. The IESG deferred action on Hypertext Markup Language -2.0 , a candidate for Proposed Standard. A request was made to add clarification text to the document so that implementation will not require historical (i.e. undocumented folklore) knowledge to understand the applicability of the specification. John will take this up with the working group/document authors. 3. The IESG approved the publication of Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification as a Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement. 4. The IESG approved the publication of IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture as a Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement. 5. The IESG approved the publication of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) as a Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement. 6. The IESG approved the publication of DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6 as a Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement. A concern was raised pertaining to the coexistence of A and AAAA records. It was explained that this is a transition issue and addressed in the transition document, currently in last call. Coya to send a separate note will be sent to the RFC Editors informing them that Sue will be adding a reference to the approved document prior to publication. 7. The IESG approved the publication of An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast Address Allocation as an Informational RFC. Coya to send announcement. 8. The IESG approved the publication of A BGP/IDRP Route Server alternative to a full mesh routing as an Experimental Protocol. Coya to send announcement. 9. The IESG tentatively approved the Guide for Internet Standards Writers Working Group pending a revised charter from Mike. The revision will clear up some items, and change the milestone so the output is a BCP document instead of an Informational RFC. If the revised charter meets these new requirements, the WG will be announced. Otherwise, it will appear on the next telechat agenda. 10. Allison reported that some members of the IAB are concerned about the MIME type registration procedures. John is concerned too :-) The IAB asked the IESG to devise a process which is expeditious and requires a last call period for registering new mime types. It was noted that the last call period would not address the concerns being raised. Further, there is no conflict resolution procedures for mime types (two requests to register the same/some one else's type). However, John saw no problem with initiating a last call process, but as it is a policy change, the IANA needs to agree to it. John also reported a design team effort currently underway that proposed to eliminate flat addresses space, which should go far in addressing the current IAB concerns, but not all of them. The proposal is expected in the next few weeks.