INPG Directorate Teleconference
	                       November 22, 1993

         Reported by:  Steve Coya

This report contains IPNG Directorate 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.

ATTENDEES
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Scott Bradner / Harvard
Allison Mankin / NRL


Steve Bellovin / AT&T
Jim Bound / DEC
Ross Callon / Wellfleet
Brian Carpenter / CERN	
Dave Clark / MIT
John Curran / NEARnet
Steve Deering /Xerox PARC
Dino Farinacci / Cisco 
Eric Fleischman / Boeing
Paul Francis / Bellcore
Daniel Karrenberg / RIPE
Mark Knopper / MERIT
Greg Minshall / Novell
Paul Mockapetris / ISI
Rob Ullmann / Lotus
Lixia Zhang / Xerox PARC


Regrets
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J Allard / Microsoft



1. With respect to dealing with the press, it was requested that all
   queries about the IPNG directorate and the IPNG process should be
   directed to the Co-Area Directors, but that queries about individual
   IPng proposals should be dealt with by the authors of those
   proposals


2. Allison initiated a discussion on the roles of the IPNG Directorate.
   Essentially, the Directorate members represent a wide variety of
   groups and backgrounds. The Directorate will be performing the white
   paper reviews, review of the various proposal documents, work with
   the co-directors in the establishment of working groups under the
   area, participate in big-internet discussions, do outreach when
   offered the chance, review working group documents, etc.


3. There was a lot of discussion on the external review panel,
   including the proposal that Dave Clark function as the handler for
   the ExRP. There were a number of comments and some concerns raised
   during the discussion. It was decided to continue the discussion on
   the mailing list preparatory to discussion of membership of the ExRP
   at the next teleconference.


4. It was decided that the draft white paper outline should be
   discussed via e-mail, particularly to see if there were some areas
   that had not been explicitly mentioned. It was suggested that
   earlier works, such as the Selection Criteria I-D, might be reviewed
   with the purpose of identifying additional criteria to be used when
   reviewing white papers.

   The direcotorate also agreed to seperate the original white paper
   concept into two parts:

	1) white papers that represent the views or concers that an
	author wishes to bring to the attention of the IETF  and the
	IPng process

	2) overview documents of the IPng proposals - it was agreed
	that the directorate was not ready to define the form of these
	overviews


   Initially, the document reviews will focus on clarity and
   self-completeness.  Directorate comments will be returned to the
   authors. It was proposed that when a revision is ready, a
   notification is to be sent to Steve Coya who will then notify the
   Directorate.

5. The Directorate discussed the establishment of a Requirements WG and
   a Transition and Coexistence, including Testing (TACIT) Working
   Group. Allison and Scott asked for suggestions for people that might
   chair these new working groups. Frank Kastenholtz was mentioned as a
   chair of the Requirements WG though there was some discussion on
   getting a co-chair


6. Next teleconference will be December 6, 1993