Minutes 
IAB Teleconference

2008-06-25


1. Roll-call, agenda-bash, approval of minutes, administrivia

1.1.  Agenda

1.2.  Attendance

PRESENT

  Loa Andersson
  Gonzalo Camarillo
  Stuart Cheshire
  Russ Housley  (IETF Chair)
  Olaf Kolkman (IAB Chair)
  Gregory Lebovitz
  Barry Leiba
  Kurtis Lindqvist
  Andy Malis
  Danny McPherson
  Dave Oran
  Dow Street (IAB Executive Director)
  Dave Thaler
  Mark Townsley (IESG liaison)
  Lixia Zhang


APOLOGIES

  Aaron Falk (IRTF Chair)
  Sandy Ginoza (RFC Editor Liaison)
  Lynn St. Amour (ISOC Liaison)



2.  IETF 72 Plenary

Olaf began the meeting with a few IETF 72 coordination items (e.g.
IAB BOF coverage), and then the discussion moved to the Technical 
Plenary.  Gregory had previously summarized the plan in an email,
and during the meeting he proposed that the plenary focus on IPv6 
adoption successes, barriers, and IPv4 contingency planning.  The 
overall goal would be to get the community to further engage in 
IPv6 adoption.  A notable element of the transition debate involves
the possibility of carrier grade NATs.  The board intends to use a
panel format for the plenary discussion, and will seek speakers
from multiple perspectives:  carrier, content provider, OS vendor,
home gateway, etc.  Danny and Dave Thaler will work to identify
speakers; the board will review status at the next business 
meeting.

At the end of this agenda item there was a short discussion about
the possible need for an IAB workshop on carrier grade NATs, 6-4, 
and some related impacts to BEHAVE work.  The board will revisit
this question after the Dublin meeting.


3.  Architecture Topic - Securing Inter-domain Routing

Danny gave an update on the current lay-of-the-land in the world
of securing inter-domain routing.  The SIDR WG is working primarily
on PKI and repositories, not really on the routing component
itself.  There are several additional touch-points needed between
the certificate infrastructure and the routing protocol(s) before
routing itself could actually be secured.  These steps will need to
involve RPSEC, IDR, GROW, and possibly OPSEC.  Unfortunately, much
of the discussion of authentication infrastructure is currently 
taking place outside the purview of the IETF 'proper', namely on 
the RESCERT mailing list:

http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/rescert

At some level, though the 'design work' is occurring via RESCERT, 
the expectation is that any output would be published via the IETF.
Russ also noted that the discussion is likely to shift to IETF
channels once the focus moves toward the routing mechanisms.  All
in all, there is a fair amount of work ongoing, but specific IAB
next steps (if any) are not obvious.  

The group discussed a possible IAB document that would provide a
taxonomy of the components involved in securing inter-domain
routing, in turn providing some context to how work might be spread
across various WGs.  At previous IAB meetings the group had
discussed the architectural ramifications (e.g. security vs 
autonomy) for securing routing in the manner that is currently being
pursued.  This IAB document could also raise awareness of such 
architectural considerations.  Danny volunteered to draft a 
document outline for consideration by the group.


4.  Architecture Topic - Peer-to-Peer Architectures

Gonzalo led a discussion of the IAB peer-to-peer work item.  The 
plan is to draft a document that provides a taxonomy of P2P 
architectures and relates P2P to server farms, grid computing, and 
client-server models.  As agreed to previously by the IAB, the 
document would also emphasize that P2P approaches are useful for a
variety of legitimate and legal purposes, helping to dispel any 
negative connotations of the technology.

Gonzalo has completed a literature survey and recently added a 
detailed document proposal to the internal IAB wiki.  The draft 
would likely start as an individual document, and then transition
to an IAB document prior to publication.  Specific near-term feed-
back was requested of all IAB members.  Gonzalo will use this
feedback to write an initial draft, which the IAB will discuss at
the Sunday IETF meeting (Dublin).  


5.  AOB

There was a short discussion of an IPv6 experiment at the upcoming
IETF.  Stuart noted that such an experiment would be useful in 
continuing to motivate deployment of IPv6 services at Apple and
elsewhere.  It is likely that the Dublin meeting will not have a
period where IPv4 connectivity is disabled (as was the case in 
Philadelphia), but that the IPv6-only network would be available 
throughout the conference sessions.  Minneapolis was targeted as a
first possibility for another "no v4" experiment, allowing more
time between experiments for implementation of IPv6 services.

Olaf noted that there is some follow-up work needed with IANA over
the next few weeks.  He will send an email to list.  


6.  Conclude Call