Minutes 
IAB Teleconference

2008-08-06


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

1.1.  Agenda

1.2.  Attendance

PRESENT

  Loa Andersson
  Stuart Cheshire
  Aaron Falk (IRTF Chair)
  Gregory Lebovitz
  Olaf Kolkman (IAB Chair)
  Kurtis Lindqvist 
  Andy Malis
  Dave Oran
  Dave Thaler
  Mark Townsley (IESG liaison)
  Lixia Zhang


APOLOGIES

  Gonzalo Camarillo
  Sandy Ginoza (RFC Editor Liaison)
  Russ Housley (IETF Chair)
  Barry Leiba
  Danny McPherson  
  Lynn St. Amour (ISOC Liaison)
  Dow Street (IAB Executive Director)



1.3  Meeting Minutes

No final meeting minutes were reviewed during this call.


2.  IAB Logo and Trust

It was agreed to contribute the new IAB logo that Dow had created 
to the IETF trust for trademark registration.  


3.  IETF NomCom

Dave Oran summarized a recent discussion that he, Olaf, and Danny
had had with Joel Halpern (NOMCOM chair) regarding the IAB job 
description.  The group then considered how to best coordinate with 
the NOMCOM on the topic of 'candidate information sharing'.  This
was a source of concern during the last NOMCOM, since candidate 
questionnaires were not always clear about what information would
be shared with the IAB.  The board agreed to let the NOMCOM chair
propose a straw-man approach for dealing with this issue.  Dave
Oran, as IAB liaison to the NOMCOM, will coordinate with Joel and 
report back to the IAB.  

Board members also took an action to review and comment on the IAB
job description by the end of the week, at which point it will be
forwarded to Joel.    


4.  ICANN NomCom

The IAB decided to confirm Ole Jacobson for another term as the 
IAB-appointed member of the ICANN Board of Directors Nominating
Committee.  


5.  RFC Editor Model

Olaf provided a short update on the RFC Editor Model description.  
There have been a few comments from the community following the 
presentation at the plenary, including additional input from Bob 
Braden.  Olaf is in the process of revising the description, and 
will circulate an update to the IAB shortly.  After one or two days 
of IAB-internal review the revised description will be posted 
publicly.


6.  Assessment of Technical Plenary

The board discussed the recent technical plenary, and attempted to
make an initial assessment of its success.  Several members noted
that they had heard only positive feedback.  There was one negative 
comment from an IPv6 expert who said he didn't get much out of the
talk.  A primary overall goal of the session was to help foster 
IPv6 adoption, a goal which will take some time to assess.  Other 
observations included:

- The session covered the "barriers to adoption" item well.

- The panel discussion could have done a better job in covering the 
internal decisions of organizations to deploy IPv6, especially the
business and management aspects.  As panel moderator, Gregory 
pushed in this direction, particularly with Alain and Lorenzo, but 
the discussion never fully got into the details.  It was recognized 
that there is some sensitivity related to these kind of business 
decisions, and that having an enterprise customer on the panel may 
have been helpful in this regard.

- The issues addressed by NATs reflect some of the important 
remaining use cases, and the IAB/IESG needs to keep this as a high 
priority work area.   

- The plenary discussion remained positive throughout, and did not 
degrade into either IPv4 or IPv6 bashing.  

- It would have been better to include a "call for action" at the
close of the technical plenary.  There was mention of this at the
Thursday administrative plenary, but it might have had greater 
impact immediately following the panel discussion.  The board 
decided to send out a broad email recapping the points of the 
plenary, and initiating a call for action on IPv6 deployment.  

The group then discussed the overall approach to planning technical
plenary sessions, including selecting a topic, establishing goals, 
identifying external participants, reviewing slides, etc.  The 
board decided to plan plenaries one IETF ahead, so as to be able to 
discuss and recruit participation at the IETF meeting prior to the 
actual plenary. This should also address the issue of limited or 
last minute reviews of content. A new section will be added to the 
IAB internal wiki for tracking potential topics, and the template 
Gregory created for the IETF 72 tech plenary will be used as a
guide for future plenary planning. Finally, "Evolution of the IP 
Model" was identified as a probable topic for IETF 73.


7.  IAB/IAOC Schedule at IETF

The IAOC had asked about the scheduling of the IAB conference room
on Wednesday morning at IETF.  The group decided to keep Wednesday 
morning available as needed for IAB meetings.  Olaf will coordinate 
with Russ and Marcia on the issue. 


8.  Topic for 8/27 Techchat

The group decided on 'Evolution of the IP Model' as the topic for 
the 27 August techchat.  Dave Thaler will plan to lead the 
discussion, and everyone took an action to read the latest draft 
and review the prior notes and email threads.  Other topics 
considered were sensor networks, TCP/AO, and a review of the RRG 
work.  These topics be placed in the queue for an upcoming meeting.
    

9.  Meeting Concluded