Brian Carpenter
Steve Crocker
Robert Elz
Elise Gerich
Christian Huitema
Erik Huizer
Larry Landweber (ISOC liaison)
Allison Mankin
Robert Moskowitz (from a plane!)
Jon Postel
Yakov Rekhter
Chris Weider
Abel Weinrib
Lixia Zhang
Workshop on character sets will be held the week before IETF meeting at ISI. Chris will report on it during IAB open meeting.
Representation from the IAB to the February 2 workshop is expected to be Allison Mankin, Elise Gerich, Jon Postel and Bob Moskowitz; it was also assumed that Paul Mockapetris will also attend.
The question was raised whether the IAB should also hold a workshop on DNS issues. Concerns were raised that this might just repeat what the NSF workshops are doing.
Instead, it was suggested that we focus on the technical solutions that would help the problem. Areas that were suggested include “mutual exclusion” techniques, proposals for engineered name spaces that allow trademarks, but also free names for all (although such free names might well be “meaningless” strings). Various approaches were suggested, including running a BOF at IETF, writing up preliminary drafts, or stimulating formation of a design team to write these up before LA IETF meeting.
Steve suggested in his mail that the IAB enhance its architectural role by taking proactive steps to identify areas that need “pre-standards” technical work, as distinct from areas ready for standardization. He has the sense that, while the IRTF could do this, at present it does not do much, perhaps because of concerns of openness. However, since the work would be pre-standards, there might well be a variety of different levels of openness that would be appropriate. For instance, one approach would be to allow formation of multiple research groups working in similar areas with competing solutions.
In this model, the IESG might often reject formation of a working group on the grounds that it is technology development rather than standards work, and suggest that it become an IRTF group instead. Over time, the IRTF could become a forum of choice for such work. One concern is the potential loss of the synergy between IETF meeting participants during coffee breaks–leading to the suggestion that there be a third (pre-standards) type of meeting at IETF meeting.
The ILTF has sent Brian Carpenter mail requesting a formal liaison with the IAB. The general consensus was that we see no need for a formal relationship at this time, although we recognize that many issues (DNS and trademarks, content restrictions, etc.) make Internet law important.
Update bios of IAB members after new membership in April.
Regular teleconference second Tuesday of the month at 10:00 AM Eastern Time.
These minutes were prepared by Abel Weinrib, AWeinrib@ibeam.intel.com. An online copy of these and other minutes are available online http://www.iab.org/documents/IABmins.