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.

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

External link

http://www.ietf.org/iesg.html

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