The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) is a body composed of the Internet Engineering Task Force

Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite...

 (IETF) chair and area directors.
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

Internet standard

In computer network engineering, an Internet Standard is a normative specification of a technology or methodology applicable to the Internet. Internet Standards are created and published by the Internet Engineering Task Force .-Overview:...

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Membership

Members of the IESG include the director of each of the following areas:

• 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 and Services Area (tsv) - frequently also referred to as the "Transport Area"

Liaison and ex-officio members include:

• Internet Architecture Board
  Internet Architecture Board
  The Internet Architecture Board is the committee charged with oversight of the technical and engineering development of the Internet by the Internet Society ....
  
   (IAB) Chair and Liaison
• IETF Executive Director
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
  Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
  The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System , media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and numbers...
  
   (IANA) liaison
• Request for Comments
  Request for Comments
  In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments is a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems.Through the Internet Society, engineers and...
  
  (RFC) Editor liaison
• IETF Chair (also IESG Chair and Area Director for the General Area)