Internet Engineering Steering Group

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

* Applications Area (app)
** Lisa Dusseault, Open Source Applications Foundation
** Chris Newman, Sun Microsystems

* Internet Area (int)
** Mark Townsley, Cisco Systems
** Jari Arkko, Ericsson

* 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
** David Ward, Internet Engineering Group (IEng)

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

* Transport Area (tsv)
** Lars Eggert, NEC Network Laboratories
** 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
** Loa Andersson, Acreo - IAB liaison
** Sandy Ginoza, USC/ISI - RFC Editor liaison

External links

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