Open IAB Meeting Toronto, 27 July 1994 Agenda: o Progress of the liaison with SC6. o The ethics of the Internet. o The image of the IAB/IETF. Brian Carpenter. o The progress of POISED2. Steve Crocker. o After the retreat of the security. o Before the retreat of the applications. John Romkey. ======== Liaison with ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC6 o Requested by ISOC, 92. o Amsterdam 1993: Requested the writing of an MOU + discussions. o December 93 - January 94: A lot of discussions. MOU get drafted. o March 94: Presentation to the IETF. o May 94: Last Call. o June 94: Approved by SC6, completed. o July - August 94: Approved by IAB, Last Call. Submission to ISOC's trustees. o November 94: Approval by JTC1. ======== What changes in the MOU? o The title: Cooperative Agreement o The unspecified parts, "to be filled up by SC6/JTC1." Selected groups send documents in electronic form to JTC6, then to point of contact. o A precision: Pending deliberations in JTC1, SC6 standards may include "normative" as well as "informative" references. ======== The ethics of the Internet o Requests from the Internet Society's trustees. o Devise "code of ethics": - what users should do, - what providers should enforce. o This will be handled by the IESG. ======== After the security retreat: o Start research work, o Start engineering work, o Pass the good word: - Protect SNMP, DNS, routing. - No password in the clear, never. ======== But this is sad... o Recognize that we have no privacy, o Protect the password, o Leave everything else in the clear for hackers to prey on. ...we should do better: o Specify "the right thing," o Even if export controlled: - get international developments, - import instead of export, - get control removed.