INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) September 11, 1997 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 in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NCR-9528103 ATTENDEES --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / @home Coya, Steve / CNRI Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison) Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee Narten, Thomas / IBM O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Romanow, Allyn / Sun Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Baker, Fred / cisco Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison) Curran, John / GTE Internetworking Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the August 28 Teleconference were approved. Steve to place in public archives. 2. The IESG approved publication of A Common Schema for the Internet White Pages Service as a Proposed Standard. Steve to make announcement. 3. The IESG tentatively approved publication of A One-Time Password System as a Draft Standard. Before the announcement is sent, Jeff Schiller is to submit data on implementation experience to Steve who will add to the Implementation WEB Page. Once reviewed and deemed acceptable [to the IESG], Steve will make the announcement. 4. The IESG approved publication of RPCSEC_GSS Protocol Specification as a Proposed Standard. Steve to send announcement. The IESG felt that clarifcation text needed to be added to Authentication Mechanisms for ONC RPC before being published as an Informational RFC. 5. The IESG had no problem with the publication of ODETTE File Transfer Protocol as an Informational RFC. Steve to send note to the RFC Editors. 6. The IESG felt that A Dictionary Server Protocol should not be published until the authors contact the IANA to register the port number referenced in the document. The document also assigns a new URL scheme (which needs to be standards Track). Harald to convey this to the author, and Steve will send note to the RFC Editors. 7. Allyn will contact the author of MAPPING OF AIRLINE TRAFFIC OVER IP and request a revision before the IESG reviews futher. 8. The Internet-Draft PPP for Asynchronous PAD to Synchronous X.25 access is to be reviewed by the PPPEXT Working Group. Thomas will coordinate with the author and the WG, and Steve will send note to the RFC Editors. 9. Harald has exchanged mail with the author of Japanese Characer Encoding for Internet Messages . Steve to send note to the RFC Editors requesting that this document not be published in its current state. 10. Scott to contact the authors of The Internet-Draft End-to-End Throughput and Response Time Testing With HTTP User Agents and the JavaScript Language suggesting that this document be reviewed by BMWG/IPPM. Steve to notify the RFC Editors. 11. Jeff Schiller will contact the author of ElGamal Profile for X.509 Certificates about the PKIX WG reviewing this document. Steve to send note to the RFC Editors requesting that this document not be published at this time. 12. The IESG felt that Hobbes' Internet Timeline deserved a wider community review before being published as an Informational RFC. Joyce accepted responsibility and requested Steve to send last call. 13. Jeff reported on the status of setting up the IESG retreat to be held November 10-11 at MIT. Jeff is to get hotel rates and send final instructions to the IESG. Steve volunteered to collect head count and dietary restritctions. 14. After some digging, the IESG recalled the revisions needed for the FTP Security Extensions . Jeff to convey to the WG. 15. Steve reported that $100 credits will be issued to full time students attending IETF meetings beginning at the DC IETF meeting. 16. Steve also reported that the on-site registration fee will be $100 greater than the pre-registration fee. This is hoped to motivate people to pre-register, resulting in smaller lines. 18. The IESG spent some time discussing the recent set of articles and statements on S/MIME that have appeared in the press, along with the letter received by RSA counsel. Scott to draft a response. 19. Three Internet-Drafts have been submitted for publication as Informational documents. All three, however, contain copyright notices by RSA. Scott will discuss this with IESG counsel to ascertain the appropriate next step. Fini