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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:

• Internet Area (int)
• Operations & Management Area (ops)
• Routing Area (rtg)
• Security Area (sec)
• Transport Area (tsv)
• Temporary Sub-IP Area (sub) and so on.

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 IESG to progress documents in the standards track.

Current IESG members

• IETF Chair
  • Harald Alvestrand, Cisco Systems

• Applications Area (app)
  • Ted Hardie, Qualcomm
  • Scott Hollenbeck, VeriSign

• Internet Area (int)
  • Thomas Narten, IBM
  • Margaret Wasserman, ThingMagic

• Operations & Management Area (ops)
  • David Kessens, Nokia
  • Bert Wijnen, Lucent Technologies

• Routing Area (rtg)
  • Bill Fenner, AT&T
  • Alex Zinin, Alcatel

• Security Area (sec)
  • Steven Bellovin, AT&T Labs -- Research
  • Russ Housley, Vigil Security

• Transport Area (tsv)
  • Allison Mankin, Bell Labs, Lucent
  • Jon Peterson, NeuStar

• Temporary Sub-IP Area (sub)
  • Alex Zinin, Alcatel
  • Bert Wijnen, Lucent Technologies

• Liaison and Ex-officio Members
  • Leslie Daigle, VeriSign - IAB Chair
  • Barbara Fuller, Foretec Seminars - IETF Executive Director
  • Michelle Cotton, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority - IANA liaison
  • Joyce Reynolds, USC/ISI - RFC Editor liaison
  • Rob Austein, Grunchweather Associates - IAB Liaison