Minutes interim-2026-iesg-03: Thu 15:00
minutes-interim-2026-iesg-03-202602051500-00

INTERNET ENGINEERING STEERING GROUP (IESG)
Minutes of the February 5, 2026 IESG Teleconference

Reported by: Liz Flynn, IETF Secretariat


ATTENDEES
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Mike Bishop (Akamai) / Web and Internet Transport Area
Mohamed Boucadair (Orange) / Operations and Management Area
Morgan Condie (AMS) / IETF Secretariat
Deb Cooley (Independent) / Security Area
Roman Danyliw (CERT/SEI) / IETF Chair, General Area
Charles Eckel (Cisco)/ Incoming Applications and Real-Time Area
Gorry Fairhurst (Univ. of Aberdeen) / Web and Internet Transport Area
Liz Flynn (AMS) / IETF Secretariat
Jim Guichard (Futurewei Technologies) / Routing Area
Chris Inacio (CERT) / Incoming Security Area
Tommy Jensen (Cloudflare) / Incoming Internet Area
Mahesh Jethanandani (Arrcus) / Operations and Management Area
Erik Kline (Aalyria Technologies) / Internet Area
Cindy Morgan (AMS) / IETF Secretariat
Andy Newton (ICANN) / Applications and Real-Time Area
Ketan Talaulikar (Cisco) / Routing Area
Éric Vyncke (Cisco) / Internet Area
Paul Wouters (Aiven) /  Security Area


REGRETS
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Matthew Bocci (Nokia) / IAB Liaison
Jay Daley / IETF Executive Director 
Jean Mahoney (AMS) / RFC Editor Liaison 
Tommy Pauly (Apple) / IAB Chair
Orie Steele (mesur.io) / Applications and Real-Time Area
Sabrina Tanamal (ICANN) / IANA Liaison
Gunter Van de Velde (Nokia) / Routing Area


OBSERVERS
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Amanda Baber
Rakeshi Gandhi
Sandy Ginoza
Nathan Sherrard
Greg Wood



MINUTES
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1. Administrivia
1.1 Approval of the Minutes

The minutes of the January 22, 2026 Teleconference were approved. The
Secretariat will place the minutes in the public archives.

The narrative minutes of the January 22, 2026 Teleconference were
approved. The Secretariat will place the minutes in the public archives.


1.2 Documents Approved since the January 22, 2026 IESG Teleconference
1.2.1 Protocol Actions

  o draft-ietf-core-oscore-groupcomm-28  (Proposed Standard)
  o draft-ietf-core-groupcomm-bis-17  (Proposed Standard)
  o draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-characterization-17  (Best Current Practice)
  o draft-farrell-tls-pemesni-13  (Proposed Standard)
  o draft-ietf-netmod-system-config-20  (Proposed Standard)
  o draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-evpn-sr-p2mp-18  (Proposed Standard)
  o draft-ietf-lsr-anycast-flag-13  (Proposed Standard)
  o draft-ietf-core-yang-sid-pen-06  (Proposed Standard)


1.2.2 Document Actions

  o draft-ietf-cats-usecases-requirements-14  (Informational)


1.3 Review of Action Items

DONE:

  o Mahesh Jethanandani and Roman Danyliw to set up a meeting with IANA,
    LLC counsel, and the IETF Trust to discuss copyright statements 
    in YANG modules.

  o Jim Guichard to find an additional designated expert for Mobile Ad
    hoc NETwork (MANET) Parameters [IANA #1437734].


IN PROGRESS:

  o Paul Wouters to find designated experts for RFC 9770 (Notification 
    of Revoked Access Tokens in the Authentication and Authorization 
    for Constrained Environments (ACE) Framework) [IANA #1421561].

  o Mike Bishop to find designated experts for draft-ietf-core-href 
    (Constrained Resource Identifiers) [IANA #1438496].

  o Roman Danyliw to take a look at Datatracker documentation of 
    document states and update as needed.

  o Roman Danyliw and Mahesh Jethanandani to draft update to "Guidance 
    on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents" statement.

  o Andy Newton, Deb Cooley, and Roman Danyliw to work on re-chartering
    dispatch to cover multiple areas.


NEW:

  o Gunter Van de Velde to find designated experts for RFC 9917 (IGP Flexible
    Algorithms Reverse Affinity Constraint)[IANA #1442975].



2. Protocol actions
2.1 WG submissions
2.1.1 New items

 o draft-ietf-ace-key-groupcomm-oscore-19  - IETF stream
   Key Management for Group Object Security for Constrained RESTful
   Environments (Group OSCORE) Using Authentication and Authorization
   for Constrained Environments (ACE) (Proposed Standard)
   Token: Paul Wouters

The document remains under discussion by the IESG in order to 
resolve points raised by Deb Cooley.*


 o draft-ietf-calext-jscontact-profiles-11  - IETF stream
   Protocol-Specific Profiles for JSContact (Proposed Standard)
   Token: Orie Steele

The document remains under discussion by the IESG in order to 
resolve points raised by Mike Bishop and Mohamed Boucadair.*


 o draft-ietf-ohai-chunked-ohttp-07  - IETF stream
   Chunked Oblivious HTTP Messages (Proposed Standard)
   Token: Mike Bishop

The document remains under discussion by the IESG in order to 
resolve points raised by Mohamed Boucadair.*


 o draft-ietf-mpls-mna-hdr-19  - IETF stream
   MPLS Network Action (MNA) Sub-Stack Specification including
   In-Stack Network Actions and Data (Proposed Standard)
   Token: Jim Guichard

The document remains under discussion by the IESG in order to 
resolve points raised by Éric Vyncke. The Secretariat will add RFC 9613
and RFC 9789 to the downref registry.*


 o draft-ietf-teas-yang-te-41  - IETF stream
   A YANG Data Model for Traffic Engineering Tunnels, Label Switched
   Paths, and Interfaces (Proposed Standard)
   Token: Jim Guichard

The document remains under discussion by the IESG in order to 
resolve points raised by Mohamed Boucadair, Mahesh Jethanandani, Ketan
Talaulikar, and Éric Vyncke.*


 o draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental-03  - IETF stream
   Incremental Forwarding of HTTP Messages (Proposed Standard)
   Token: Mike Bishop

The document was approved by the IESG pending a final check to be 
completed by Mike Bishop. The Secretariat will send a working group 
submission Protocol Action Announcement.


 o draft-ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem-03  - IETF stream
   Post-quantum hybrid ECDHE-MLKEM Key Agreement for TLSv1.3 (Proposed
   Standard)
   Token: Paul Wouters

The document remains under discussion by the IESG in order to 
resolve points raised by Mohamed Boucadair.*


 o draft-ietf-quic-multipath-19  - IETF stream
   Managing multiple paths for a QUIC connection (Proposed Standard)
   Token: Gorry Fairhurst

The document remains under discussion by the IESG in order to 
resolve points raised by Mike Bishop, Mohamed Boucadair, and Roman
Danyliw.*


2.1.2 Returning items

 NONE

2.2 Individual submissions
2.2.1 New items

 NONE

2.2.2 Returning items

 NONE

2.3 Status changes
2.3.1 New items

 NONE

2.3.2 Returning items

 NONE

3. Document actions
3.1 WG submissions
3.1.1 New items

 NONE

3.1.2 Returning items

 NONE

3.2 Individual submissions via AD
3.2.1 New items

 o draft-davids-forsalereg-20  - IETF stream
   The "_for-sale" Underscored and Globally Scoped DNS Node Name
   (Informational)
   Token: Mohamed Boucadair

The document was approved by the IESG pending a new revision. The 
Secretariat will send an individual submission Document Action 
Announcement once Mohamed Boucadair confirms that the announcement is
ready to be sent.


3.2.2 Returning items

 NONE

3.3 Status changes
3.3.1 New items

 NONE

3.3.2 Returning items

 NONE

3.4 IRTF and Independent Submission stream documents
3.4.1 New items

 NONE

3.4.2 Returning items

 NONE

4. Working Group actions
4.1 WG creation
4.1.1 Proposed for IETF review

 NONE

4.1.2 Proposed for approval

 NONE

4.2 WG rechartering
4.2.1 Under evaluation for IETF review

 o Lightweight Authenticated Key Exchange (lake)

The IESG decided to proceed with IETF review of the revised 
charter pending edits to the text of the charter to be provided by 
Paul Wouters. The Secretariat will send a WG Review announcement, with a
separate message to new-work@ietf.org. The Secretariat will place 
the WG on the agenda for the next IESG Teleconference after the 
conclusion of external review.


4.2.2 Proposed for approval

 NONE

5. IESG Liaison News

6. Management issues

6.1 [IANA #1437734] Backup Designated Expert for the MANET registries

The management issue was discussed. The IESG approved Christoper
Dearlove (christopher.dearlove@gmail.com) as the backup designated
expert for the MANET Parameter registries.


6.2 Final IETF 125 BOF Approvals

The management issue was discussed. Final determinations of BOF requests
were made.


6.3 [IANA #1442975] Designated experts for RFC 9917 (IGP Flexible
Algorithms Reverse Affinity Constraint)

The management issue was discussed. An action item was assigned to
Gunter Van de Velde.


6.4 [IANA #1442998] Designated experts for TLSA Selectors (DNS-Based
Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Parameters) - (Deb Cooley or
Paul Wouters))

The management issue was discussed. The IESG approved Viktor Dukhovni
(ietf-dane@dukhovni.org), Shumon Huque (shuque@gmail.com) and Paul
Wouters (paul@nohats.ca) as the designated experts for TLSA Selectors
(DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Parameters).


6.5 [IANA #1443264] Management Item: Acceptance of media type
registration from Industrial Digital Twin Association e.V.

The management issue was discussed. The IESG asks IANA to process this
media-type request, and to add this organization to the 
'Standards-related organizations that have registered Media Types in the
Standards Tree.' 


6.6 [IANA #1443331] Approve media type audio/soundfont

The management issue was discussed. The IESG approved the registration
of media type audio/soundfont.


6.7 IESG Meetings at IETF 125 (Secretariat)

The management issue was discussed. 

7. Any Other Business (WG News, New Proposals, etc.)

8. 1 Executive Session: IETF 125 Logistics

The management issue was discussed in an executive session with current
and incoming IESG and Secretariat.

8.2 Executive Session: Appeals

The management issue was discussed in an executive session with current
IESG and Secretariat, with Paul Wouters recused.




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* Please see the Datatracker (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/) 
for details on documents that are under discussion by the IESG.