INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) April 13, 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 8820945. For more information please contact the IESG Secretary at . ATTENDEES --------- Bradner, Scott / Harvard Coya, Steve / CNRI Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison) Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software Klensin, John / MCI Kostick, Deirdre / Bellcore Mockapetris, Paul / ISI O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Thomson, Susan / Bellcore Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Mankin, Allison / ISI Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) Minutes ------- 1. Sue Thomson was selected as the IESG Liaison to SC6. 2. Harald Alvestrand voiced no objection to his serving as the IESG Liaison to SC21. John Klensin is the IESG Liaison to SC18. 3. Christian mentioned that the IAB will discuss whether formal liaison agreements are needed for each group, and if all must go through the last call process. 4. Deirdre volunteered to run the WG Chair training session in Dallas, and will audit/assist Joyce with the session in Stockholm. 5. The IESG Retreat will be held at EDUCOM (16th Street in DC) on April 27-28. Thursday's session will run from 10am-5pm. Friday's session will begin at 9am and end just after lunch. Jeff Schiller reported that he may not be able to physically attend, but would like to participate. Paul said he would investigate what options were available to accommodate the request. Suggestions for topics to be discussed during the retreat should be sent to Steve. Drafts of the retreat agenda will be sent to the list periodically. 6. The IESG briefly discussed the proposed amendment to RFC1602 and decided that further discussions will be held during the retreat. The amendment basically provides a process for dealing with variations to precedents, and provides an accepted mechanism for resolving potential problems that are not specifically addressed in RFC1602 (or may not be specifically addressed in subsequent versions of the Standards Process document). 7. The topic of how to best utilize the lawyers now that the Danvers IETF meeting is over. The consensus was that they be on the PoisedIPR mailing list (once established). The chairs of the IPR WG (once chartered) would be informed that the legal resources would be available, and that the chairs would contact the lawyers directly. 8. Paul reported that he was envisioning two WGs: Poised95 and the IPR WG. He mentioned that he would ask both John Curran and Karl Auerbach to co-chair the effort. Carl Malamud was one of the candidates to chair the Poised95 WG. 9. The topic of the recently proposed Internet Legal Task Force (aka ILTF) was briefly discussed and the usual suggestions (one room, locked door) were made. The IESG will wait and see what comes out of the Internet Summit WRT the ILTF. 10. John Klensin requested that a new IAB Liaison from the IESG be designated as his schedule tends to conflict with IAB meetings. This topic will be added to the retreat agenda. Anyone wishing to join Frank as a liaison candidate should step up and say so. 11. Since the IESG retreat will be held in two weeks, the next IESG telechat was scheduled for May 11, 1995.