INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG) December 16, 1999 ATTENDEES --------- Baker, Fred / Cisco Systems Bradner, Scott / Harvard Bush, Randy / Verio Carpenter, Brian / IBM (IAB Liaison) Coltun, Rob / Siara Systems Faltstrom, Patrik / Tele2 Marine, April / Internet Engines Moore, Keith / U of Tennessee Narten, Thomas / IBM Nordmark, Erik / Sun Oran, Dave / Cisco Schiller, Jeff / MIT Wijnen, Bert / IBM Regrets ------- Freed, Ned / Innosoft (IAB Liaison) Leech, Marcus / Nortel Paxson, Vern / ACIRI/ICSI Reynolds, Joyce K. / ISI (IANA Liaison) Minutes ------- 1. The minutes of the December 2 Teleconference were approved. Steve to place in public archives. 2. The IESG decided to return UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 to the author for clarifications. A new version is expected. Some felt it should be published as an Informational RFC rather than a Proposed Standard. Will return to the agenda when a revision (-06) is available. 3. The IESG tentatively approved Distributed Routing Policy System as a Proposed Standard... once this version exists. Cosmetic changes were requested, primarily to remove a majority of the End-of-line hyphen characters. 4. The IESG approved creation of the DNS Extensions (dnsext) WG in the Internet Area. Steve to send announcement. 5. The IESG approved the new charter and milestones for the Reliable Multicast Transport Working Group (rmt). Steve to update record/web page. 6. The IESG tentatively approved publication of 6Bone Backbone Routing Guildelines as an Informational RFC. A revision is to be submitted and once Scott confirms his issues have been adequately addressed, Steve to send announcement. 7. The IESG approved publication of Encryption using KEA and SKIPJACK as an Experimental Protocol. Steve to send announcement. 9. The IESG approved publication of An Abstract API for Multicast Address Allocation as an Informational RFC. Steve to send announcement. 10. The IESG had no problem with the publication of Internet Transparency as an Informational RFC. Steve to convey to RFC Editor. 11. The IESG approved publication of HTTP Extension Framework as an Experimental Protocol, but with an IESG note. Keith to send IESG Note text to the list and Steve to convey to RFC Editor. 12. The IESG felt that Alert and Notification Format should NOT be published as an Experimental Protocol. Patrik to provide text and Steve to inform RFC Editor. 13. The IESG decided to have one more telechat this century. Steve to set up for December 30.