Internet Engineering Steering Group
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) is a body composed of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 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:
- Internet Architecture Board (IAB) Chair and Liaison
- IETF Executive Director
- Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) liaison and
- Request for Comments (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 members
The below list of members is out of date. Look at the official list
- IETF Chair (also IESG Chair and Area Director for the General Area)
- Russ Housley, Vigil Security, LLC
- Applications Area (app)
- Alexey Melnikov, Isode Limited
- Peter Saint-Andre, Cisco Systems
- Internet Area (int)
- Jari Arkko, Ericsson
- Ralph Droms, Cisco Systems
- Operations & Management Area (ops)
- Ronald Bonica, Juniper Networks
- Dan Romascanu, Avaya
- Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area (rai)
- Routing Area (rtg)
- Stewart Bryant, Cisco Systems
- Adrian Farrel, Huawei
- Security Area (sec)
- Tim Polk, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Sean Turner, IECA, Inc.
- Transport Area (tsv)
- Lars Eggert, Nokia
- David Harrington, HuaweiSymantec
- Liaison and Ex-officio Members
- Olaf Kolkman, NLnet Labs - IAB Chair
- Alexa Morris, Association Management Solutions, LLC (AMS) - IETF Executive Director
- Michelle Cotton, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority - IANA liaison
- Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks, Inc. - IAB liaison
- Sandy Ginoza, USC/ISI - RFC Editor liaison