The Internet Engineering Steering Group

IESG Overview

• IESG members
• Past IESG members and IETF chairs
• Agenda for next IESG teleconference
• IESG teleconference minutes and narrative minutes
• Directorates, review teams, etc (informal web page maintained by IESG)
• IETF Process Experimentes (informal web page maintained by IESG)
• How IESG Sends Architectural Questions to IAB (informal web page maintained by IESG)
• IESG Wiki - Informal handbook on IESG procedures (informal web pages maintained by IESG)

Standards Process

• The Internet Standards Process (RFC 2026/BCP 9, Oct 1996)
• The IETF Process: an Informal Guide (informal web page maintained by IESG)
• Internet-Drafts Status Tracker
• Recent IESG Announcements
• IESG Statements on RFC Editor Independent Submissions
• Parking Area: Approved drafts awaiting RFC publication
• Implementation reports (for progressing documents on the standards track)
• Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents (IESG Statement, Mar 2007)
• How an AD ballots - IESG voting procedures (informal web page maintained by IESG)
• DISCUSS Criteria in IESG Review (IESG statement, Jul 2007)
• On AUTH48 state (IESG statement, Jan 2006)
• IESG Processing of RFC Errata for the IETF Stream (IESG statement, Jul 2008)
• Last Call guidance to the community (IESG statement, Jan 2007)
• Choosing between Informational and Experimental Status (informal web page maintained by IESG)

Liaisons

• Current liaisons (web page)
• List of liaison statements (tool)
• Liaision statement manager (tool for submitting liaison staments; accounts from ietf-action@ietf.org)
• IAB Processes for Management of IETF Liaison Relationships (RFC 4052/BCP 102, Apr 2005)
• Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and from the IETF (RFC 4053/BCP 103, Apr 2005)

Appeals

• Appeal process is described in The Internet Standards Process (RFC 2026/BCP 9, Oct 1996)
• On Appeals of Area Director Actions and Decisions (IESG statement, Oct 2007)
• Appeals to the IESG (list maintained by IESG)
• Appeals to the IAB (list maintained by IAB)

Statements on Specific Technical Issues

• Experimental Specification of New Congestion Control Algorithms (IESG statement, Jul 2007)
• IESG Statement on IDN (IESG statement, Feb 2003)
• On Registration Requests for URIs Containing Telephone Numbers (IESG statement, Mar 2008)
• On RFC 3406 and URN Namespaces Registry Review (IESG statement, Feb 2008)
• Announcement of temporary Sub-IP Area (IESG statement, Mar 2001)
• Plans for Sub-IP organization (IESG statement, Dec 2000)
• A New IETF Work Area (IESG statement, Nov 2000)

Old archived material

BOFs and WG Chartering

• BOF and WG chartering process is described in IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures (RFC 2418/BCP 25, Sep 1998)
• List of planned BOFs (informal web page maintained by ADs)
• Considerations for Having a Successful BOF (draft-narten-successful-bof, Oct 2007)
• BOF procedures (informal web page maintained by IESG)
• Updating charter milestones (informal web page)

Working Group Procedures

• IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures (RFC 2418/BCP 25, Sep 1998)
• Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication (RFC 4858, May 2007)
  • WG Document Shepherd writeup questions and template
  • Document Shepherd template for individual submissions via AD
• Guidance on interim meetings and conference calls (IESG statement, Sep 2008)
• On Design Teams (IESG statement, Dec 2001)
• Requesting Meeting Sessions at IETF Meetings (informal web page)
• On the Formatting and Content of IETF Working Group Agendas and Minutes (informal web page maintained by IESG)
• Submitting Meeting Materials for IETF Working Group and BOF Sessions (informal web page)

Mailing List Procedures

• A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETF Mailing Lists (RFC 3683/BCP83, Mar 2004)
• Updates to RFC 2418 Regarding the Management of IETF Mailing Lists (RFC 3934/BCP94, Oct 2004)
• Experiment in Long-Term Suspensions From Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Mailing Lists (RFC 4633, Aug 2006)
• Advice for WG chairs dealing with off-topic postings (IESG statement, Jan 2008)
• On disruptive posting (IESG statement, Feb 2006)
• Moderated WG Email Lists (IESG statement, Aug 2000)
• Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists (IESG statement, Apr 2008)
  (Jan 2006 version, Mar 2002 version)
• Requesting a new mailing list at ietf.org/iab.org/irtf.org (tool)

Guidance for Document Authors

• Guidelines for writing Internet-Drafts (informal web page)
• Checklist for Internet-Drafts (IDs) submitted for RFC publication (informal web page)
• Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs (RFC 5226/BCP 26, May 2008)
• Tools and templates:
  • Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML (RFC 2629, Jun 1999)
  • xml2rfc tool (online/download)
  • Microsoft Word Template for Creating Internet Drafts and RFCs (draft-touch-msword-template-v2.0-08, Jul 2008)
  • Templates for Internet-Drafts Containing MIB Modules (RFC 5249/BCP 139, Jul 2008)
  • A Template for Internet Drafts Containing Data Models (draft-ietf-opsawg-data-model-doc-template, Feb 2008)
• Handling normative references:
  • Clarifying when Standards Track Documents may Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level (RFC 3967/BCP 97, Dec 2004)
  • Handling Normative References to Standards-Track Documents (RFC 4897/BCP 97, Jun 2007)
  • Normative and Informative References (IESG statement, Apr 2006)
• Guidelines for the use of formal languages in IETF specifications (IESG statement, Oct 2001)
• Syntax for format definitions (IESG statement, May 2005)
• Copyright statement in MIB Modules (IESG statement, Nov 2002)
• Proposed status for IETF documents reserving resources for example purposes (IESG statement, January 2009)