Internet Architecture Board

Minutes
IAB Teleconference

13 May 2003, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm US EST

ATTENDING

APOLOGIES

NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING

Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 4:00 EST.

AGENDA

NOTES

0. Rollcall, Agenda Bash and Previous Minutes

Minutes of the 8 April Teleconference were approved.

1. Review of Action Items

see below

2. Review of Documents

see below

3. IAB Liaison Reports

IESG
The IESG liaison to the IAB is Bert Wijnen.

An experiment has commenced in the area of provision of RT (a ticketing system) support to any WG that wants it. Levels of interest in this activity are being assessed.

The IESG is also reviewing aspects of the WG decision making process in the area of means of resolving potential deadlock situations.

IRTF
The IRTF chair reported receiving a number of concerns and complaints about the state of ASRG, and is looking into modifying the RG management to address them.

RFC Editor

"Do Not Publish" (DNP)
There has recently been a discussion between the IESG and RFC Editor on the issue of when to publish documents as RFCs that have been rejected by working groups. There is a concern that document authors will take rejected drafts from the working groups and submit them directly to the RFC Editor as individual submissions. A question has arisen whether these documents should be published before the working group publishes its output.
The RFC Editor has proposed to the IESG that the IESG may request that publication of an individual submission may be delayed by six months by sending RFC Editor a "Do Not Publish" (DNP) note containing a description of the risks posed by the document. (The RFC Editor would like to understand the specifics of the request.)
The author will receive a note including the IESG DNP message and an explanation that the draft may be resubmitted in six months. The RFC Editor feels that a timed delay is important since some working groups do not complete their work. When the draft is re-submitted, the IESG may request one additional six month delay if there is sufficient reason to believe the working group will deliver it's output in that time.
This discussion is still in progress.
The IESG's I-D nits document

The IESG is reviewing the I-D nits document. The IESG requested that the RFC Editor provide a review and feedback. Bert Wijnen has been sorting the nits into three categories:
1. "clerical" nits which will result in a wg draft being rejected before AD review. E.g., missing security considerations.
2. Nits which the AD review should flag and reject before IESG review.
3. Nits which can be resolved somewhat painlessly by the RFC Editor (e.g., excessive line length in body text).
The RFC Editor conveyed to Bert Wijnen that it is willing and able to handle all the formatting and editorial nits. The RFC Editor doe not feel that documents should be held up overly long for reasons of formatting, especially since the RFC Editor will be fixing the formatting, anyway. The RFC Editor agrees that the best thing for all involved is to ensure that the semantic nits (e.g., abstract, normative/informative references, security considerations, etc.) are best addressed early on to ensure accurate review and group consensus. The RFC Editor also agrees that it is reasonable to require splitting references between normative and informative on all IESG-reviewed Informational documents.
In all cases, WG chairs and authors will be expected to have their documents nit-free before submission. The objective of this activity is to decide when to bounce a document that fails a nit check. The desire is to set a fairly high bar with the WG chairs to improve the quality of documents hitting the IESG.
New RFC Series/Category and Documented Appeals Process for DNPs

The RFC Editor is currently discussing with the IESG the possibility of a new series/category for working group Informational documents such as requirements, architecture, and framework documents, and a documented appeals process for DNPs.

ISOC
ISOC has been following up on Item # 8 from the IAB Meetings during the March 2003 IETF concerning the US Homeland Security Office activities

Meetings have taken place with representative of this office, as well as comparable meetings with officials within Europe.

4. Updates from IETF Liaisons

RSSAC
The RSSAC has been discussing "glue" RRset maintenance and policy issues (mostly about how active a role ICANN should play about making sure that the glue RRset stays in sync with the authoritative RRset in the child zone. The questions include: how much checking should be undertaken?, Should there be tracking of changes to the authoritative RRset that the child zone admin hasn't directly reported to ICANN?

5. Proposal: Process for relationships with non-international bodies

6. IAB plans for Vienna IETF meeting

The IAB decided to invite the CEO of ICANN to meet with the IAB on Thursday of the IETF week.

The IAB considered a proposal to hold an open meeting to undertake enumeration of the class of operational scenarios for which there is perceived to be a role for scoped, or otherwise constrained address architectures. At this stage the proposed outputs from this activity are intended to be an enumeration of the issues raised in the open meeting, followed by a subsequent architectural analysis of these issues as a means of assisting the IETF to progress with the topic of various forms of constrained address architecture proposals.

7. Review of recent and planned IAB activities

The mid-month IAB action item review has not been effective, and this will not be continued. The mid-month informal telechats were considered to be effective, and further calls will be scheduled using a SIP-based conferencing system.

IAB members were requested to provide periodic summaries of the current status and major issues being faced by those working groups in which they were actively tracking.

8. Other Business

None

ACTIONS and DOCUMENTS

Actions

Notification Mechanisms
IETF Protocol Parameter Registration
DNS and IDN Document
IAB Workshops
IAB input to Security Architecture
IAB Workshop on DOS Attacks
Address Architecture
WG Status

Closed Actions

Response to ICANN VGRS proposal
ICANN CRADA report
IAB Conf calls using SIP
HSSP
HSSP
Global Grid Forum Liaison
V6 Address Architecture

Documents

Security considerations, including common security attacks
draft-iab-sec-cons-03.txt
Security Mechanisms for the Internet
draft-iab-secmech-02.txt
A survey of Authentication Mechanisms
draft-iab-auth-mech-00.txt
Internet Architecture and End-to-End
draft-iab-e2e-futures-02.txt
Report of IAB Network Management Workshop
draft-iab-nm-workshop-02.txt
Internationalized Resource Identifiers
draft-iab-char-rep-00.txt
Service Identification in packets
draft-iab-service-considerations-00.txt
Transport Controls for VOIP
IANA Definition
draft-iab-iana-01.txt
ISOC Trustee Appointment Process
draft-iab-isocbot-00.txt
IAB Research Agenda
IAB Overview
http://www.iab.org/connexions.html
IAB Considerations on Discovery Mechanisms and IPv6
IAB Research Agenda - Operational Areas

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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