INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) March 17, 1994 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 at the following address: ATTENDEES --------- Bradner, Scott / Harvard Coya, Steve / CNRI Crocker, Dave / SGI Gross, Phillip / MCI Hinden, Robert / SUN Huitema, Christian / INRIA (IAB Liaison) Klensin, John / UNU Knowles, Stev / FTP Software Mankin, Allison / NRL Rekhter, Yakov / IBM (IAB Liaison) Rose, Marshall / DBC Regrets Chapin, Lyman / BBN Crocker, Steve / TIS Huizer, Erik / SURFnet Piscitello, Dave / Core Competence Reynolds, Joyce / ISI 1. The minutes of the March 3 teleconference were approved. Coya to place in IETF Shadow Directories 2. The IESG Retreat, scheduled for April 26-27 at CNRI, is to be for sitting IESG members only. 3. The IESG approved "MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh files" as a Proposed Standard with some minor editorial changes requested by the IESG (and agreed to by the authors). The IESG also approved the publication of "MIME Content Type for BinHex encoded files" as an Informational RFC. Coya to send announcement on both items to the IETF and RFC Editor, noting that editorial changes to the I-D will be made by the authors and reviewed by Klensin and Bradner. 4. The IESG approved "UPS Management Information Base" as a Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement to the IETF and RFC Editor. 5. The IESG approved both "DNS Resolver MIB Extensions" and "DNS Server MIB Extensions" as Proposed Standards. Coya to send announcement on both items to the IETF and RFC Editor. 6. Dave Crocker asked that the DNS WG be concluded. Coya to draft announcement and send it to Dave and Rob (WG Chair) for review prior to sending to the entire IETF. 7. The IESG approved "PPP over ISDN" as a Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement to the IETF and RFC Editor. 8. The IESG approved "PPP over SONET/SDH" as a Proposed Standard. Coya to send announcement to the IETF and RFC Editor. 9. The IESG adopted the following policy on Character Sets and Internationalization: Background: Work in either character set (or coding) development or "internationalization" has major long-term architectural and policy implications for IETF. It is clear that the work is important; it is clear that others, including several ISO/IEC JTC1 committees, are working parts of the issue. Much of the work and success criteral are cultural and political, not engineering/technical. Recommendation: IESG explicitly refer this collection of issues to IAB, with a request that they advise us on architectural frameworks, what should be done within IETF and what elsewhere, and that they work out such liaisons with other groups (ISO/IEC JTC1, APCCIRN, RARE, CEN, French Ministry of Culture, ...) as they believe would facilitate the work and reduce the odds of redundant or conflicting work and recommendations. Until the IAB produces such advice/recommendations, we refer any proposals to initiate standards-track character set work, other than requirements to narrowly profile existing and deployed standards for Internet use, to them as fodder for their deliberations. Coya to draft message to IAB on this policy, sending it to the IESG for review and wordsmithing prior to sending to the IAB. 10. The IESG reviewed its Moratorium on new OSI related WGs. The conclusion was that the policy should remain in place. The next review point will be when the IETF has agreed to a Statement of Principles wrt a relationship with ISO. Coya to draft message to the IETF and send to IESG for review, word-smithing, and approval.