Minutes interim-1992-iesg-17 1992-08-17 16:00
minutes-interim-1992-iesg-17-199208171600-00

    IETF STEERING GROUP (IESG)

    REPORT FROM THE TELECONFERENCE

    August 17th, 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
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    Borman, David / Cray Research
    Crocker, Dave / TBO
    Crocker, Steve / TIS
    Coya, Steve / CNRI
    Davin, Chuck / MIT
    Gross, Philip / ANS
    Hinden, Robert / SUN
    Hobby, Russ / UC-DAVIS
    Huizer, Erik / SURFnet
    Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore
    Stockman, Bernard / SUNET/NORDUnet
    Vaudreuil, Greg / CNRI

    Regrets
    Almquist, Philip / Consultant
    Reynolds, Joyce / ISI

    Agenda
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    1) Administrivia
    o Announcements
    o Bash the agenda
    o Approval of Minutes
    - 8/10/92
    o Next Meeting

    2) Protocol Actions

    o PPP Authentication
    o Van Jacobsen Header Compression
    o Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots
    o String Representation of Distinguished Names
    o Use of X.500 for User Friendly Naming
    o Ethernet MIB

    3) Technical Management Issues
    o IAB/IETF Process Working Group
    o OSPF recommendation.

    Minutes
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    1) Administivia

    o Bash the agenda.

    The agenda was abreviated to allow for expanded discussion of the
    IETF/IAB process Working Group.

    o Minutes of the 10th.

    The Minutes of August 10th were approved.

    o Next Meeting

    The next IESG meetings was set for August 24th, 12:00-2:00 ET.

    2) Protocol Actions

    o PPP Authentication

    The current hold up for PPP Authentication is the specification of
    the character set for the comment field in the authentication
    messages. The IESG is concerned that the IAB and Working Group are
    on a request-change cycle which has no end in sight.

    ACTION: SCrocker -- Send a note to Steve Kent listing all known
    outstanding issues and attempt to reach closure.

    o TCP/IP Header Compression

    There has been no progress in clarifying the needed changes and
    getting a new document published.

    o OSI Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots

    There was no objection to the publication of the OSI Naming
    Guidelines for Directory Pilots document. There is minor
    controversy over the directory scheme. This proposal is different
    from the North American Directory Forum (NADF) proposal, but it is a
    reasonable suggestion for uniform naming an Internet directory
    system and should be published.

    ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Send a notification to Jon Postel to publish the
    Internet Draft "Naming Guidelines for Directory Pilots" as an
    Information RFC.

    o OSI String Representation of Distinguished Names (Proposed Standard)

    The IESG is still waiting for a new version of this document
    reflecting changes requested during the last call.

    o User Friendly Naming using X.500

    This document has been revised at the request of the IAB. It is now
    intended to be published as an Experimental protocol rather than a
    Proposed Standard. Because this has been the subject of continuing
    dialogue, the Area Directors for OSI have requested that a last call
    be issued.

    ACTION: Vaudreuil -- Issue a Last Call for User Friendly Naming to
    Experimental status.

    o Ethernet MIB

    The Ethernet MIB is on hold waiting for a revised version. Several
    MIB objects were requested to be deleted from the MIB rather than
    deprecated. The IESG agreed that this was reasonable and has asked
    for a revision.

    3) Technical Management Issues

    o Process Working Group.

    Steve Crocker presented a draft charter of the IAB/IETF Process
    Working Group. This charter expanded on the charge given the IESG
    by the ISOC president to look at the IAB/IESG/IETF relationship in
    fundamental ways. The IESG discussed this with the IAB on mailing
    lists and agreed that while some of these additional topics may come
    up in the course of the Working Groups life, the initial charter
    should directly address the charge of the ISOC president.

    ACTION: SCrocker -- Refine the Process Working Group charter and
    re-submit it to the IESG.

    o OSPF Applicability Statement

    Phill Gross updated the IESG recommendation to the IAB to smooth
    over some of the more dated material. This recommendation was
    reviewed by the IAB and was agreed to send it to the RFC Editor for
    publication as an Informational Document after posting as an
    Internet Draft. It is expected that the IAB Applicability Statement
    for OSPF will reference this document.

    ACTION: Gross -- Post the revised IESG OSPF AS recommendation to the
    IAB as an Internet Draft

    ACTION: Vaudreuil -- After a period of review, send the OSPF
    recommendation to the RFC Editor for publication as an Informational
    RFC.