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Minutes
IAB Meeting — Teleconference

8 October 2002, 3:00pm – 5:05pm EST

ATTENDING

Allison Mankin — visiting observer from the IESG

APOLOGIES

NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING

Tuesday, 12 November, 2002.

AGENDA

Rollcall, Agenda Bash and Previous Minutes
Review of Action Items
Review of Documents
Liaison Reports and Organization Updates
IAB Correspondence Archive
Instructions to IANA on ARPA
.ARPA Domain Servers
SC 22 Approval of Category C Liaison with IETF
ISOC BoT appointee process
Enrollment Workshop
ICANN Evolution and Reform
Any Other Business

NOTES

0. Rollcall, Agenda Bash and Previous Minutes

10 September 2002

1. Review of Action Items

below

2. Review of Documents

below

3. Liaison Reports

IESG

An openly available interface to the Internet-Draft document tracking system will be announced shortly.

RFC EDITOR
Joyce Reynokds reported that the RFC editor will be engaging a student to undertake developmental activities relating to XML-based document management. This will be raised in detail with the IESG.

The RFC Editor spends some effort in ensuring that published RFC documents use correct and clear English. Some guidance is sought on the level of effort to invest in such document editing activity. It was suggested that such documents could be referred back to the document author with an accompanying reference to a style guidance resource and some useful example documents.

The management of individual RFC submissions was raised, relating to the situation where the individual submission relates to current IETF WG activity. The RFC Editor refers such documents to the IESG and awaits IESG guidance. Clarification of the manner of IESG management of such documents was being sought.

The issue of authorship of IETF documents has been raised. It was noted that the RFC Editor publishes IETF documents under the specific direction of the IESG, and such matters of attribution of authorship fall within the Internet Standards Process.

IRTF
The Routing Research Group chairs have confirmed that they will attend the Atlanta IETF meeting and will be able to be present for the IAB review of this research group.

It was originally anticipated to be able to schedule a presentation from the Delay Tolerant Networking research group for the IETF plenary session. At this stage this is not possible and no IRTF presentation is being scheduled. Discussion included the suggestion of a presentation from the End To End Research Group at the March IETF meeting.

ISOC
No Report.

ITU-T
It was noted that the ITU is currently engaged in its Plenipotentiary meeting in Morocco. It has been reported that Houlin Zhao has been appointed to head the TSB for a second term. Apart from that item, there was not yet a significant amount of substance to report from the Plenipotentiary meeting.

There has been an informal request for information relating to the root DNS servers and stability considerations. There is some level of confidence in the exchange of information between the IETF and the ITU-T and the level of cooperation at the working group level is viewed as progressing well.

W3C
Nothing to report.

PSO-PC and ICANN
The PSO PC members reported that the PSO-PC was continuing to meet, and had proposed formulating a joint response to the ICANN Evolution and Reform Committee report. The IETF members of the PSO PC felt that there was sufficient difference of opinion to recommend that each member organization submit its own response.

RSSAC
It was noted that there is consideration of the use of DNSSEC for the signing of the root DNS zone. There are a number of consequent considerations relating to master key and the administrative procedures. The document
draft-ihren-dnsop-interim-signed-root-00.txt
discusses a number of these considerations and proposes a possible interim solution, but the draft has not yet been discussed by the DNSOP WG.

4. IAB Correspondence Archive

The IAB endorsed the proposal and directed the Executive Director to create the archive. The IAB delegated to the chair the decision as to whether individual documents be archived in this fashion.

5. Instructions to IANA on ARPA

6. .ARPA Domain Servers

The IAB considered the addition of further .arpa secondary name servers. It was determined that the chair of the IAB should discuss the option of further .arpa name servers with the operators of the K and M root servers, in addition to the RIRs.

7. SC 22 Approval of Category C Liaison with IETF

It was noted that discussion to date with SC22 had involved the offer of a Category A liaison, and that this offer had been agreed to by the IAB. The IAB requested the chair to clarify this matter with SC22, noting the original accepted offer of a Category A liaison.

8. ISOC Board of Trustee Appointment Process

9. Enrollment Workshop

It was suggested that rather than undertaking an IAB workshop in this topic it may prove beneficial to ensure that interested parties were able to get together and discuss this. The IAB considered that followup actions were within the responsibility of the IESG, and that the IAB should pass this matter to the IESG with an offer to assist if requested.

10. ICANN Evolution and Reform

In assessing the appropriate IAB position with respect to the TAC proposal, the IAB reviewed its rationale for involvement with ICANN, and concluded that, outside considerations of the IETF IANA role, the involvement is based on an interest on the part of the IETF as to how IETF Internet Standards are deployed and how they relate to operational environments. It was noted that this interest is not exclusively expressed as an interest in the activities of ICANN, and there is a comparable level of interest in the activities of other bodies, such as the Regional Internet Registries. It was also noted that an ICANN TAC was not seen as the mechanism by which the IETF liaises with other standards bodies. The question of IETF involvement in the TAC, and the terms of any such involvement was not concluded.

The other part of the IAB interest in ICANN is due to the current arrangements relating to the operation of the IETF IANA. Again the IAB concluded that there was no desire to encumber the operation of the IETF IANA with the policy direction infrastructure scaled to address ICANN’s major mission relating to domain name coordination functions. The IAB determined to revisit the topic of how the IETF can maintain adequate control of the IETF IANA function to ensure its integrity within the Internet Standards Process.

11. Any Other Business

Jabber Security Architecture

IAB / IESG Retreat
IAB members were reminded to undertake preparation activities prior to the retreat.

ACTIONS and DOCUMENTS

Actions

IAB Mailer
IAB Network Management Workshop
RFC Individual Submission review
ICANN Evolution and Reform Followup
IAB Research Agenda
ISOC Trustee Appointment Process
IAB IPV6 Deployment Security Workshop
IAB / IESG Retreat
.ARPA Domain Name Servers
SC22 Liaison
802.11 Enrollment
Response to ITU-T over e164.arpa Arrangements
IESG observers

Documents

IAB Considerations
draft-iab-considerations-03.txt
Security considerations, including common security attacks
draft-iab-sec-cons-00.txt
Security Mechanisms for the Internet
draft-iab-secmech-01.txt
IETF PSO-PC Process
draft-iab-pso-appointments-00.txt
IAB Considerations for UNilateral Sel-Address Fixing (UNSAF)
draft-iab-unsaf-considerations-02.txt
A survey of Authentication Mechanisms
draft-rescorla-auth-mech-00.txt
Referential Integrity
Internet Architecture and End-to-End

FUTURE MEETINGS

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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Minutes IAB Meeting — Teleconference