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The voting members, with the exception of the Chair of the IETF, met to consider confirmation of the nominated candidate for the vacant position of Internet Area Director. The IAB confirmed the nomination of Margaret Wasserman to this position.
The IAB discussed their requirements for information to be provided by all future Nominating Committees when requesting confirmation of a nominated individual. The requested material to be provided to the IAB is to include:
A notice to this effect is to be published on the IAB's Web site.
The IAB Open Meeting on Address Architectures was held at IETF57 on Monday 14th July, 3:30 - 5:30 pm. The presentations and a note of the discussion are held in the IAB Document archive, and will also be published as part of the proceedings of the IETF meeting.
In reviewing the Open Meeting material the IAB noted that there is considerable overlap with previous activity undertaken within the Name Space Research Group (NSRG), although the level of documentation of outcomes from this group was somewhat low. The space of consideration encompasses, among other topics, devices with multiple addresses per interface, issues of dynamic renumbering or dynamic switching of 'self' source addresses, survivability of end-to-end sessions across lower level changes, various forms of auto-configuration and scoped identities. The observation was made that the exercise has been successful in identifying that there is a substantive topic here, rather than a selection of pieces of various puzzles.
The IAB will write up the material presented at the Open Meeting, together with initial IAB considerations on this topic, and host a moderated forum for further discussion on the role of addresses in the IP architecture.
Mark Handley, Eric Rescorla and Charlie Kaufman will continue as IAB mailing list moderators. Consideration will be given to automation of the moderation task. The approach is intended to include virus detection and consideration of challenge-response form of mail filtering.
A response to the ICANN SECSAC will be drafted, noting that there is a difference in perspective between observations on operational deployment and observations on the level of conformance to IETF Standards.
IAB review of this internet draft (draft-baker-liaisons-00.txt) is to be included on the agenda of the next IAB meeting.
The IAB considered a proposed change to the e164.arpa documentation concerning a restatement of the administrative and technical contact roles.
The IAB determined that it would issue an instruction to the IANA to delegate the reverse address zone for IPv6 6to4 address space (2.0.0.2.ip6.arpa) to an entity nominated by the RIR's to operate this reverse zone. The RIR's are to be advised that Patrik Fältström and Rob Austein should be consulted over the nature of implementation of this DNS zone as IAB-nominated technical advisors.
Vern Paxson reported to the IAB on the state of the IRTF. The goals of the IRTF were stated as being a mechanism for the transfer of technology into the IETF, and to 'nucleate' a community where researchers can come together productively. It is not envisaged that every RG achieve tangible results in both areas, but this is an overall intended outcome of the activity. It was also noted that the standardization activity is an attempt to create elements of convergence in technology, while research activities have no particular necessity to converge on particular outcomes or direction, so that there remains a visible and necessary distinction between the IETF and the IRTF activity domains. The discussion also canvassed views on Research Groups and 'lighter touch' organizational structures, and the role and placement of IRTF scheduled slots within the IETF agenda. The possibility of ISOC support for activities such as IRTF workshops was also discussed.
The IAB discussed the state of research and development in the area of inter-domain routing protocols, and noted that the research focus has shifted back into longer term consideration of requirements and approaches.
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/
The IAB Web page is at http://www.iab.org
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