INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) January 15, 1998 Reported by: Steve Coya, IETF Executive Director This report contains IESG meeting notes, positions and action items. ATTENDEES --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Maxware Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / @home Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison) Coya, Steve / CNRI Curran, John / GTE Internetworking Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison) Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee Narten, Thomas / IBM O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Baker, Fred / cisco Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Romanow, Allyn / Sun Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the December 18 Teleconference were approved. Steve to place in public archives. 2. The IESG approved publication of IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages and IANA Charset Registration Procedure as BCP RFCs. The IESG also approved publication of UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 as a Proposed Standard, but with the understanding the RFC Editor will be asked to lowercase the word MUST. Steve to send announement. 3. The IESG approved publication of Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.12 Repeater Devices as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announement. 4. The IESG approved creation of the LDAP Service Deployment (lsd) Working Group in the Operations and Management Area. Steve to send announement. 5. The IESG approved publication of Architectural Principles of Uniform Resource Name Resolution as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announement. 6. The IESG approved publication of Using the MARS model in non-ATM NBMA networks as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announement. 7. The IESG approved publication of Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) as an Informational RFC with the inclusion of the following text as an IESG note: This document reflects an existing deployed protocol. The IETF does have a working group which is in the process of producing a standards track protocol to address the same issues. 8. The IESG approved publication of Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announement. 9. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Scalable support for multi-homed multi-provider connectivity as an Informational RFC. Steve to notify the RFC Editor. 10. The IESG had no problem with the publication of A Description of the RC2(r) Encryption Algorithm as an Informational RFC. Steve to notify the RFC Editor. 11. The IESG approved creating a list of recipients in different standards making organizations. The list is to facilitate keeping other groups advised of new efforts such as proposed working groups (as a single example). The list is to contain representatives from the various groups as identified by the IAB Chair. Only list members are to be able to post messages. For Proposed Working Groups, the text will clearly state that the group has a PROPOSED status only (no guarantee that the WG will be established). The text will contain the WG Description, and a courtesy copy will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. Next Telechat will be January 29.