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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