Minutes of the March 11 Teleconference were approved.

Minutes of the March 18 Meeting were approved, subject to a redrafting of the notes relating to consideration of discovery and IPv6.

IESG
The IESG has received some comments on the IAB secmech draft. These have been forwarded to the IAB document editors. Overall IESG feedback on the document is positive.

The IESG is going through the transfer process from old to new members including who takes care of which WG and how to handle the unresolved discuss comments from former IESG members.

The IESG is looking into moving BGP to draft standard without moving the TCP MD5 option to draft standard (even though deployed BGP security uses TCP MD5) by applying a variance procedure (and documenting the application of that procedure in an I-D that will become an RFC).

RFC Editor
No items to report.

IRTF
IRTF Chair is awaiting a draft charter for a possible Mobile IP RG. Further development of the Peer-to-Peer RG has been restarted. The Name Space RG really wants to go away, but the RFC editor has returned their document asking for a significant set of organizational and clarity edits.

No progress yet regarding an IRTF IPR policy.

At the IRSG dinner, several IRSG members expressed that they would find value in having some form of identification at IETF meetings (colored badge dots).

ISOC
ISOC has historically had a VP of Standards (reporting to the ISOC President). Originally, the ISOC VP of Standards was the person that was seen as the formal contact person for the IETF by other standards development organizations and other groups because the IETF itself had no corporate existence. With the maturing of the IETF process, and the various liaisons the IAB now appoints, the need for this role has largely been obviated. In addition, the VP of Standards was seen as the contact point between the ISOC Board and the President and the IETF. However, given the change in ISOC’s governance procedures and the resultant appointments to the ISOC board of 3 Trustees by the IETF, this role is no longer necessary. After discussions with the ISOC board, the current ISOC VP of Standards – Scott Bradner, and the IAB and IETF chairs this role is though to be no longer necessary.

One area that may need to be formally transferred and that is the contact between Hale & Dorr (IETF’s pro-bono legal team) and the IETF. Advice is sought from the IAB on this matter.

IAB discussion of this topic also identified the role of the V-P standards in recommending a chair for the IETF Nominations Committee to the President of ISOC. The ISOC President will examine this matter of how advice is obtained with the IETF and IAB chairs.

ITU-T
No items reported.

W3C
No items reported

ICANN – TLG
No items reported.

ICANN – Nominations Committee
It was reported that the ICANN Nominations Committee’s call for nominations has been published, and any nominations should be forwarded as per the process described in the announcement.

ICANN – Liaison to the Board
No items reported.

RSSAC
It was noted that neither the RSSAC nor the IAB has seen the complete ICANN report on the DNS Root Server System, prepared under the terms of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between ICANN and the US Dept. of Commerce, as represented by NIST and the NTIA (CRADA). The IAB was queried as to whether this could be raised through an IAB liaison channel to ICANN.

While a public summary has been prepared, the summary indicates that the full report contains additional technical material relating to the security and operational robustness of the DNS root server system. The IAB considered that this report may benefit from competent and informed technical review by individuals familiar with technical issues in this activity domain. The IAB determined to pose this as a query to ICANN through the technical liaison process.

ISO
No items reported.

The IAB considered received comment that a number of IETF WGs are working in security-related contexts at various levels of the network reference architecture stack, and there is the potential for duplication of effort and some unwitting crossing of trust boundaries within the overall outcome.

It was noted that this appears to be an outcome of the level of interaction between WG efforts. It was considered that further information regarding the scope of this issue would be helpful in terms of determining a suitable framework and methodology for looking at this issue, and that WG chairs could be selectively surveyed to provide this further input.

On a related matter it was observed that security review of some protocols often entails an initial exercise of examining large numbers of PDU descriptions and determining the way in which the protocol manipulates these objects. The issue was raised whether a protocol operational description should b provided by the WG to assist the security review of the protocol.

The IAB decided to evaluate a SIP-based conference bridge for the next IAB teleconference call, using a hybrid SIP and PSTN bridge setup. The IAB Executive Director was requested to investigate this in further detail.

As noted in the public summary of the ICANN Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) report on the DNS root server system, ICANN is planning to operate a hidden primary root name server. The IAB expressed an interest in ensuring that the technical aspects of this activity were adequately reviewed to ensure integrity of operation of the DNS.

The IAB has received a liaison request from the chair of the Global Grid Forum. Consideration of this request did not resolve whether the request was related to individual liaison activity, coordination of new standardization activities, or periodic briefings at an Area Director level on current IETF activities. Further information was sought in relation to this request.

The IAB considered the architectural implication of scoped addresses and their utility in terms of scoped application environments, and the relationship between address and routing architectures. The IAB will seek further information relating to the routing implications of various address architecture options.

The IAB selected an appointee and passed the details to the IESG for confirmation.

10.1 CVS toolset

The IAB decided to trial the use of CVS as a document control system. A WEBDAV-based toolset may be evaluated in the future.

10.2 US ANSI Homeland Security Standards Panel

The IAB considered the report from Ran Atkinson, acting as IETF observer at the meeting of the interim Steering Committee, held on the 4th April. The suggestion to provide a detailed briefing on the Internet standards process was supported by the IAB. The IAB also decided to suggest a nomination of a Steering Committee Member to ANSI with the note that the IAB would be happy to use this individual in an observer capacity if the nomination were accepted.