INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) October 3, 1996 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 by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NCR-9528103 ATTENDEES --------- Alvestrand, Harald / Uninett Baker, Fred / cisco Bradner, Scott / Harvard Burgan, Jeff / Baynetworks Carpenter, Brian / CERN (IAB Liaison) Coya, Steve / CNRI Elz, Robert / U of Melbourne (IAB Liaison) Halpern, Joel / Newbridge Networks Kostick, Deirdre / AT&T Bell Labs Mankin, Allison / Information Sciences Institute Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee Reynolds, Joyce / ISI Romanow, Allyn / Sun Schiller, Jeff / MIT Regrets ------- Kastenholz, Frank / FTP Software O'Dell, Mike / UUNET Minutes ------- 1. The IESG approved the minutes from the September 19 teleconference. Steve to place in IETF Shadow directories. 2. HMAC-MD5: Keyed-MD5 for Message Authentication was removed from the HMAC ballot set. A new version of this Internet-Draft will be made available and reviewed. Once Jeff and Deirdre confirm to Steve that the new draft addresses their concerns, the document is approved for publication as an Informational RFC. At the same time, the Protocol Action announcement for "IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response" will be sent to the IETF Announcement list. 3. The IESG approved publication of the following documents as Proposed Standards: 1. IMAP4 QUOTA extension 2. IMAP4 ACL extension 3. IMAP4 non-synchronizing literals 4. The IESG approved reclassifying RFC1108, U.S. Department of Defense Security Options for the Internet Protocol as an Historic Document. Steve to send announcement. 5. The IESG had no problem with the publication of IP Echo Host Service as an Experimental Protocol. Steve to send note to RFC Editors. 6. The IESG had no problem per se with the publication of Tag Switching Architecture Overview as an Informational RFC, but ask the RFC Editor to change the title to: Cisco Systems' Tag Switching Architecture Overview The IESG also requests the following be included as an IESG note: This protocol is NOT the product of an IETF working group nor is it a standards track document. It has not necessarily benefited from the widespread and in depth community review that standards track documents receive. 7. Keith briefed the IESG on scenario planning, and suggested that the IAB and IESG have a 'scenario planning workshop' at the headquarters of Global Business Network (http://www.gbn.org), before or after the IETF meeting in December. Keith also mentioned that they might do this at no charge. Keith will send a follow up message to the IESG and IAB.