Minutes from the IESG Teleconference October 7, 1993 Reported by: Steve Coya, Acting IESG Secretary 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. iesg-secretary@cnri.reston.va.us. ATTENDEES --------- Coya, Steve / CNRI Crocker, Dave / SGI Hinden, Robert / SUN Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Klensin, John / UNU Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / NRL Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Piscitello, Dave/ Bellcore Rose, Marshall / DBC IAB Liaison Christian Huitema / INRIA Regrets Chapin, Lyman / BBN Bradner, Scott / Harvard Crocker, Steve / TIS Gross, Philip / ANS Yakov Rekhter / IBM 1. Approval of the Minutes for September 23 was deferred. 2. There were questions pertaining to old and current versions/RFCs of running IP over ARCNET. RFC1051, the original ARCNET document, is at STANDARD status. The status of RFC1201 was changed to HISTORIC in May of 1993. There was a request received the following month (June 16, 1993) requesting that the IESG re-evaluate its decision, and move 1051 to HISTORIC and return 1201 back to the standards track and advance it. Stev Knowles reported that he did not believe there was enough constituency to support this effort. This item will be removed from the list of active items on the IESG agenda. 3. Use of ISO CLNP in Tuba Envionments to Experimental was approved pending a review by Allison. ACTION: Allison to review document and report back to the IESG by 10/12. If review is favorable, send out the IESG notification. 4. The IESG approved the publication of "FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (FOOBAR)" as an Experimental RFC. 5. The IESG approved the Stream Protocol (st2) Working Group 6. The IESG approved the Address Lifetime Expectations (ale) Working Group once comments suggested by the IESG had been incorporated into the charter. ACTION: Coya to edit the charter and milestones based upon IESG requests, sending the draft to the Allison and Scott for final review. Once accepted, announce the formation of the Working Group. 7. The IESG reviewed and approved the reworded text of the Policy statement pertaining to the handling of IPng documents and specifications. Policy to be sent to the IETF as quickly as possible. 8. After a brief discussion, the IESG approved the formation of a ATM Informational BOF that will be held in Houston to provide an update as to what is happening in the ATM world. ACTION: Pistitello to inform Mark Laubach and tell him to request a BOF slot from the Secretariat. 9. The IESG discussed the problems of reformatting, and editing a document for publication as an RFC after it has been approved by the IESG. Delays can occur due to exchanges between the RFC Editor and the author, and these may be unknown to the IESG, and perhaps the WG chair. Some authors claim that reformatting can change the way in which a sentence or paragraph is read, and might result in ambiguity or misimplementations. It was also reported that the RFC-Editors are spending a great deal of time on the reformatting effort itself, but due to time constraings this burden may have to shift back to the document author. POSITION: The IESG supports the procedure in which a document requiring changes for publication is returned to the author, and that the appropriate Area Directors AND the Working Group Chairs should be copied on the notice. Further, when a document is reformatted and ready to be resubmitted to the RFC-Editors, the Area Directors and WG Chair are to be notified and provided a chance at reviewing, primarily to confirm that technical details have remained the same. 10. Stev Knowles agreed with the PPPEXT chair that the new Novel IPX-WAN specification should be published along with the previously approved IPX documents. ACTION: Knowles to contact Novell to obtain the document.