Minutes interim-2024-iab-25: Sun 21:00
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Minutes of the 2024-07-21 IAB Business Meeting, Vancouver

1. Attendance

Present

- Matthew Bocci
- Alissa Cooper
- Roman Danyliw (IETF Chair)
- Dhruv Dhody
- Wes Hardaker
- Cullen Jennings
- Suresh Krishnan
- Mirja Kühlewind
- Cindy Morgan (IAB Executive Administrative Manager)
- Tommy Pauly (IAB Chair)
- Ryan Polk (ISOC Liaison)
- Colin Perkins (IRTF Chair)
- Alvaro Retana
- David Schinazi
- John Scudder (IESG Liaison)
- Christopher Wood
- Qin Wu


2. Finalizing IAB voting wiki updates

  The IAB agreed the proposed changes to the IAB wiki page about
  voting. David Schinazi will work with Greg Wood to merge the edits
  from GitHub.

  David Schinazi said that he will continue to work on phrasing to
  handle situations when there is full IAB consensus.


3. Updating IAB Program Descriptions

  The IAB approved updated text for the IAB web pages on "Programs and
  Groups," "History of Programs," "Technical Programs," and
  "Administrative Support Groups." Cindy Morgan will work with the
  Secretariat team to post the updated content.


4. Recommendations for testing protocols in varying/global conditions

  Tommy Pauly said that he is planning to give a presentation in MAPRG
  on "Testing Protocols in Simulated Network Conditions." He briefly
  ran through the presentation and asked the IAB if they had any
  feedback on the content, or if there are other venues this should be
  brought to.

  Suresh Krishnan said it might be difficult to get people to share
  actual numbers.

  Alissa Cooper asked whether it would be useful to have some sort of
  hierarchy on the profiles so that different conditions are simulated.

  Matthew Bocci noted that often, events are modeled on how the
  implementation works, rather than the protocol itself, and that it
  would be helpful to have that kind of feedback brought back into the
  IETF.

  Alvaro Retana asked what the venue would be for this work, since it
  will be a long-term effort. He said that he is not convinced that
  that the IAB should do this work, but it might be valuable for the
  IAB to suggest that others do this work.

  Colin Perkins suggested that it might be useful to talk to the GAIA
  Research Group about this effort.


5. ISOC updates

  Ryan Polk updated the IAB on some of the current work of the Internet
  Society.

  The Policymakers Program at IETF 120 will have 13 policymakers from 8
  different countries. The focus will be on the importance of open
  standards, how the Internet works, and how they can incorporate what
  the Internet needs into policymaking.

  In terms of policy trends, the Internet Society is seeing ongoing
  encryption threats and routing security concerns. Ryan Polk thanked
  the IAB for signing onto the 'Comments of the Internet Society,
  Internet Architecture Board, and Internet Corporation for Assigned
  Names and Numbers in the Matter of "Reporting on Border Gateway
  Protocol Risk Mitigation Progress."'


6. Executive Session: RZERC Appointment

  The IAB appointment to the ICANN Root Zone Evolution Review Committee
  (RZERC) was discussed in an executive session.


7. Executive Session: ICANN Board Liaison Appointment

  The IAB appointment of the IETF Liaison to the ICANN Board of
  Directors was discussed in an executive session.

  Alissa Cooper, Dhruv Dhody, Suresh Krishnan, Mirja Kühlewind, and
  Alvaro Retana will interview the candidates.