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Lynn St.Amour -- Liaison from ISOC
IESG
It was reported that the IESG is considering the future of the sub-ip interim
area. The IESG has also been working on various measures directed towards
further openness of IESG activities.
The IAB noted that there is an IESG proposed draft statement on IDN that may be of interest to the IAB. The IAB discussed mechanisms of referral of documents to the IAB and the tracking of IAB member comments on documents. The IAB expressed an interest in using the document tracker system and in the planned functionality concerning balloting and comments to support the IAB's activities.
RFC Editor
No report
IRTF
No items to report
ISOC
It was reported that ISOC will be publishing a statement on the topic of the recently rescinded Panama actions concerning the legislation regarding blocking of UDP ports used by VOIP applications. The ISOC Public Policy Committee is drafting this statement.
Notes of ISOC support regarding cybersecurity initiatives are to be passed to US and European agencies, noting the importance of this area of activity and ISOC's willingness to participate in this effort.
It was noted that ISOC was requested to provide a liaison to the IETF Nominating Committee, but that the request was made at a stage that was too late to be helpful to the Nominating Committee's efforts. It is anticipated that an ISOC liaison would be requested in future years.
The PIR registry contract has been signed with ICANN earlier in December. The PIR will be the registrar of record as of 1 January 2003.
ITU-T
No items to report
W3C
No items to report
PSO-PC and ICANN
It was reported that ICANN had recently published a note indicated that prompt action was
required for the Technical Liaison Group to propose a member for the ICANN Nominations
Committee. The IAB determined that it would await the outcomes of the forthcoming ICANN
Board meeting item concerning the adoption of the Evolution and Reform Transition
instruments. It was anticipated that the IAB would then forward a note to ICANN and the
other PSO MoU signatories indicating that the IAB was withdrawing from this MoU and
nominating IAB liaisons to the Technical Liaison Group.
RSSAC
It was reported that the RSSAC has been considering the CRADA report.
IETF Nominations Committee
It was reported that the Nomcom is awaiting the resolution of the consideration of the
sub-ip area to determine if there is a requirement for nominations for Area Directors for
this Area.
The IAB considered a request from Paul Vixie (operator of the F root server) to sign an MoU concerning the operation of the root servers. The IAB noted that no other root server operators have asked the IAB to be involved, and that this does not appear to be a request on behalf of the root servers in general, and at least some of the other root server operators have signed MOUs with ICANN. The IAB decided that it would not interpose itself in this activity, through signing such a document, on behalf of a single root server operator. It was also determined that the IAB would be willing to revisit this matter if the root server operators came to the IAB as a group.
The IAB agreed to the request from the RIRs to allow the 6Bone addresses as a permitted exception to the provisions of RFC 3152.
The IAB discussed a proposal to offer a liaison to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), noting that there was a need for better contact with the RIRs. The IAB was in favour of a liaison group that included a group of nominated individuals from the IETF and the RIRs using a mail forum and ad hoc meetings as required. It was noted that this would be an improvement on the current situation and further experience with this structure may suggest further measures in the future.
The IAB discussed the proposed ARIN 2002-2 policy concerning allocation of number resources to support certain experiments to be conducted on the public Internet. The IAB noted that some form of technical coordination was desireable and that this could involve the proposed RIR liaison. Discussion is hosted on the ARIN public policy forum.
The IAB decided to nominate Geoff Huston and Mike St Johns as the initial nominations to the proposed ICANN Technical Liaison Group (TLG).
The IAB observed that there is some residual diversity of perspective on the responsibility for management of protocol parameter registration that may require some clarification by the IAB.
The IAB noted that the nomination of a liaison to the Board of ICANN will be required shortly, and that this matter should be concluded at the next IAB meeting.
The IAB considered a request from Ned Freed concerning IAB architectural consideration of Notification Mechanisms. The IAB considered that this should be undertaken as a focussed activity involving a number of interested individuals with expertise in this area.
The IAB approved a proposal to include prospective WG chairs in the joint IAB and IESG discussion of the charter of proposed Working Groups.
Harald Alvestrand reported on the current status of the problem-statement forum. There is a current call for chair for a working group to continue this activity within a WG structure.
These minutes were prepared by Geoff Huston; comments should be sent to iab-execd@iab.org. An online copy of these and other minutes is available at: http://www.iab.org/documents/IABmins/
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