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)
  • 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.

Current IESG members

  • Internet Area (int)
    • Mark Townsley, Cisco
    • Margaret Wasserman, ThingMagic
  • Routing Area (rtg)
  • Security Area (sec)
    • Sam Hartman, MIT
    • Russ Housley, Vigil Security
  • Transport Area (tsv)
    • Allison Mankin, Shinkuro
    • Jon Peterson, NeuStar
  • Liaison and Ex-officio Members
    • Leslie Daigle, Cisco - 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

External link

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