Internet Engineering Steering Group

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The Internet Engineering Steering Group is a body composed of the Internet Engineering Task Force Chair and Area Directors:

• Applications Area (app)
• Internet Area (int)
• Operations & Network Management Area (ops)
• Routing Area (rtg)
• Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area (rai)
• Security Area (sec)
• Transport Area (tsv)

and Liaison and Ex-officio Members:

• IAB Chair and Liaison
• IETF Executive Director
• IANA liaison and
• RFC Editor liaison.

It provides the final technical review of Internet standards and is responsible for day-to-day management of the IETF. It receives appeals of the decisions of the working groups, and the IESG makes the decision to progress documents in the standards track.

[edit] Current IESG members

• IETF Chair
  • Brian Carpenter, IBM Switzerland

• Applications Area (app)
  • Lisa Dusseault, Open Source Applications Foundation
  • Ted Hardie, Qualcomm

• Internet Area (int)
  • Mark Townsley, Cisco Systems
  • Jari Arkko, Ericsson

• Operations & Management Area (ops)
  • David Kessens, Nokia
  • Dan Romascanu, Avaya

• Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area (rai)
  • Cullen Jennings, Cisco Systems
  • Jon Peterson, NeuStar

• Routing Area (rtg)
  • Bill Fenner, AT&T
  • Ross Callon, Juniper Networks

• Security Area (sec)
  • Sam Hartman, MIT
  • Russ Housley, Vigil Security

• Transport Area (tsv)
  • Lars Eggert, NEC Network Laboratories
  • Magnus Westerlund, Ericsson

• Liaison and Ex-officio Members
  • Leslie Daigle, Cisco Systems - IAB Chair
  • Barbara Fuller, Foretec Seminars - IETF Executive Director
  • Michelle Cotton, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority - IANA liaison
  • Joyce Reynolds, USC/ISI - RFC Editor liaison
  • Dave Meyer, Cisco/University of Oregon - IAB liaison

[edit] External link

• http://www.ietf.org/iesg.html