Internet Engineering Steering Group

A body composed of the Internet Engineering Task Force Chair, 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 first technical review of Internet standards and is responsible for day-to-day management of the IETF. It recieves appeals of the decisions of the working groups and IESG to progress documents in the standards track.

External links

http://www.ietf.org/iesg