IPNG Directorate Teleconference
			    July 11, 1994

	 Reported by:  Steve Coya

This report contains IPNG Directorate meeting notes. 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
Ross Callon / Wellfleet
Brian Carpenter / CERN
Dave Clark / MIT
Jon Crowcroft / UCL
Steve Deering / Xerox PARC
Dino Farinacci / Cisco
Eric Fleischman / Boeing
Frank Kastenholz / FTP
Mark Knopper / Ameritech
Greg Minshall / Novell
Lixia Zhang / Xerox PARC

Regrets
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J Allard / Microsoft
Jim Bound / DEC
John Curran / NEARnet
Paul Francis / NTT
Craig Partridge / BBN
Rob Ullmann / Lotus


1. After a number of attempts, the teleconference scheduled for 11:30
   commenced at 11:55. The next meeting, July 18, will focus on the
   IPNG presentation to be made by Allison and Scott at the Toronto
   IETF meeting on Monday morning.

2. It was asserted that no recommendation should be made while the
   format of the IP address was still being discussed, and that holding
   a BOF on the fixed vs variable address format would not be
   beneficial. Comments were solicited from the other directorate
   members.

3. Steve Deering and Dave Clark were asked to review this topic and
   recommend if a meeting is needed to focus on the shape of
   addresses.  Allison and Scott will incorporate into the preview they
   plan to send to the IESG.

   Is an addressing "last call" to be done as a bof (with other wgs
   meeting) or in a plenary environment?  Many thought it needed to be
   done earlier in the week, precluding using a plenary session. Mark
   offered up a TUBA slot as it would facilitate his efforts to prepare
   a TUBA agenda for Toronto.

4. The TACIT WG chairs are supposed to be working on a revision to the
   WG charter. There is also a need to start up an auto-configuration WG.

5. There were questions and discussions about the life of the IPNG area
   and the Directorate. Scott reported that he believes both should
   continue to live, at least until the appropriate documents appear on
   the standards track, and probably for another 6-12 months.

6. Allison reviewed comments received from Steve Crocker and Jeff
   Schiller. There is a need to identify specific efforts to be
   undetaken to establish an IPng Security Framework.

7. There was some discussion on the IPng Architect position. Most of
   the concerns voiced so far do not seem to be with the description or
   the proposed candidate, but with the use of the term Architect on
   the position title.