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MINUTES FOR OPEN IAB MEETING AT MONTREAL IETF 
MEETING--June 26, 1996. =======================

IRTF
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Abel Weinrib reported that the IAB is working to revitalize the 
Internet Research Task Force. A draft guidelines and procedures 
document was recently published as an Internet Draft
(draft-weinrib-irtf-guidelines-00.txt). Comments are eagerly sought 
from the IETF community. The document will be submitted for 
publication as a BCP in the near future.
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Character Set Workshop
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Chris Weider reported on the recently held IAB workshop on character 
sets. See associated slides.

A request was made that the relevant ISO standards documents (10646) 
be made available to the IETF community online. The IAB will 
approach ISO on this issue in its role as ISO liaison and report back at 
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General Report on IAB Activities
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Brian Carpenter outlined the IAB's past year activities. These 
included: 
three RFCs:
"Unique Addresses are Good"
"Renumbering Needs Work"
"Architectural Principles of the Internet" character set workshop
draft IRTF procedures document
SMI appeal
discussions on:
pricing (drafts published)
security architecture (working towards an IAB workshop) statement on 
legal and regulation re. cryptography top level domains--without 
reaching consensus the meaning of the IPv4 address space
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Open Mic.
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The general consensus of the members of the audience was that the IAB 
should not shy from doing architecture, providing leadership to the 
community, and generally being more proactive as a group. (Bottom 
line: Don't be paralyzed by Kobe.)

There was a discussion of the need for something better than ASCII for 
IETF documents. But, there are still problems with all obvious 
alternatives. 

Responses to request for input on architectural things for IAB to work on: 
Error numbers vs. error strings, etc.
Conferencing architecture draft from UCL: 
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/confctrl/docs/draft-ietf-mmusic-confarch-00.ps 
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These minutes were prepared by Abel Weinrib, weinrib@intel.com. An 
online copy of these and other minutes are available at 
ftp://ftp.isi.edu:pub/IAB. Also, visit the IAB Web page at 
http://www.iab.org/iab.