From: IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
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Subject: Protocol Action: The Recommendation for the IP Next Generation
	 Protocol to Proposed Standard
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 94 16:31:26 -0500


  The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "The Recommendation for the
  IP Next Generation Protocol" <draft-ipng-recommendation-01.txt> as a
  Proposed Standard.  This document is the product of the IPng Area of
  the IETF.  The IESG contact persons are Scott Bradner and Allison
  Mankin.


Technical Summary

  This document contains the IPng Area Directors' recommendation to
  the community and to the IESG on the specific future direction for
  the replacement for the current version of IP.  It contains a review
  of the IPng proposals, selection criteria and decision process, it
  also includes an overview of the specific technical details of the
  proposed protocol and lists a set of documents to serve as starting
  points for the IPng Working Group and for related working groups
  including Next Generation Transition and Address Auto-configuration.
  Please refer to the document itself for full details of the
  recommendations.

Protocol Quality

  The document was authored by two IESG members.