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.

[edit] Current IESG members

• IETF Chair (also IESG Chair and Area Director for the General Area)
  • Russ Housley, Vigil Security, LLC

• Applications Area (app)
  • Lisa Dusseault, Messaging Architects
  • Alexey Melnikov, Isode Limited

• 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)
  • Cullen Jennings, Cisco Systems
  • Jon Peterson, NeuStar

• Routing Area (rtg)
  • Ross Callon, Juniper Networks
  • Adrian Farrel, Huawei

• Security Area (sec)
  • Pasi Eronen, Nokia
  • Tim Polk, National Institute of Standards and Technology

• Transport Area (tsv)
  • Lars Eggert, Nokia
  • Magnus Westerlund, Ericsson

• 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
  • Dave Oran, Cisco - IAB liaison
  • Sandy Ginoza, USC/ISI - RFC Editor liaison

[edit] External links

• http://www.ietf.org/iesg.html