INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) April 11, 1996 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 --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Baker, Fred / cisco Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / Baynetworks Coya, Steve / CNRI Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison) Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs Mankin, Allison / Information Sciences Institute Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Carpenter, Brian / CERN (IAB Liaison) Minutes ------- 1. The IESG approved the minutes from the March 28 IESG telechat. Coya to place in shadow directories. 2. The IESG approved publication of GSS-API Authentication Method for SOCKS Version 5 as a Proposed Standard. 3. The IESG approved publication of The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism as a Proposed Standard. 4. The IESG decided to return Domain Name System Security Extensions to the author for clarification and other changes. Harald is to provide a more complete list to Jeff, who will convey to the author. This document is removed from the IESG agenda, and will be considered after a new version of the Internet-Draft is made available. 5. The IESG approved publication of Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6) as a Proposed Standard. 6. The IESG approved publication of IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration as a Proposed Standard. 7. The draft charter for Uniform Resource Characteristics (urc) was withdrawn from consideration by the IESG. This will be recondsidered when a new charter is developed and submitted. 8. A decision on Native ATM Support in the Internet , a candidate for Informational RFC, was deferred to permit more time for IESG review. It was noted that when published, the title WILL have to be changed. 9. WG ACtions: a. The IPNG Working Group is to be transferred to the Internet Area. b. Addrconf is to be closed down. Any future work will be handled by the IPNG Working Group. c. The IPNG Area will close once the final two documents (An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format & Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6) are processed. 10. Note of Apprecation: The IESG commended Scott Bradner and Allison Mankin for the outstanding job they performed as co-Area Directors of the IPNG Area, and thanked them for taking on the job. Scott and Allison: take two cookies out of petty cash :-) 11. Steve will try and create a list of all RFCs that have expired in grade.