Minutes
IAB Teleconference


September 14, 2005


1. Rollcall, Agenda Bash and Previous Minutes

1.1 Agenda

  1. Rollcall, Agenda Bash and Previous Minutes
  2. Review of Action Items
  3. Review of Documents
  4. Regular Reports
  5. MFA Forum liaison
  6. IAOC selection document
  7. IAB liaison to the NomCom
  8. IAB architecture-discuss list
  9. Workshop plan
  10. Review of IAB timeline/plan
  11. AOB

1.2 Attendance

Present

Leslie Daigle — IAB Chair

Bernard Aboba

Loa Andersson

Brian Carpenter — IETF Chair

Aaron Falk — IRTF Chair

Bob Hinden

Kurtis Lindqvist

David Meyer

Pekka Nikander

Eric Rescorla

Pete Resnick

Joyce K. Reynolds — Liaison from the RFC Editor

Jonathan Rosenberg

Lynn St. Amour — Liaison from ISOC

Bert Wijnen — Liaison from the IESG

Lixia Zhang

Absent

Rich Draves — IAB Executive Director

Patrik Fältström

1.3 Previous Minutes

Minutes from August were accepted.

2. Review of Action Items

(See Appendix A)

3. Review of Documents

(See Appendix B)

4. Regular Reports

The following reports from liaisons and ad-hoc committees were submitted to the IAB.

ISOC

Lynn St. Amour

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/wsis/wgigcomments.shtml

RFC Editor

Joyce Reynolds

Also, Kate Peterson has joined us as a temporary part-time copy editor/proof reader.

IRTF

Aaron Falk

The October issue of ACM Computer Communications Review (CCR) will contain a note to the research community on why networking researchers should continue to be involved in the IETF (mostly via participation in the IRTF). I’ve placed a copy of the article online at http://www.irtf.org/pub/irtf-iab-ccr.pdf. Many thanks to Lixia and Pekka for their assistance.

Evaluating RG charter proposal and drafts from XCAST community.

No progress on co-chair for Congestion Control Research Group.

IESG

Bert Wijnen

ATM Forum

Andy Malis

The merger between the ATM Forum and the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance completed towards the end of July. The new organization is now known as the “MFA Forum”, standing for MPLS, Frame Relay, and ATM. More information regarding the Forum is available at www.mfaforum.org.

IEEE 802

Bernard Aboba

(See http://www.iab.org/liaisons/ieee/2005-08-ieee802-liaison-report.html.)

ITU-T NGN

Scott Brim

(See http://www.iab.org/liaisons/ngn/2005-09-10.html. Leslie took the action of circulating this report to the IAB.)

W3C

Leslie Daigle

W3C/IETF telcon 15 Aug 2005

Attendees

Dan Connolly (chair), Tim Berners-Lee, John C Klensin, Leslie Daigle, Ted Hardie, Scott Hollenbeck, Philippe Le Hégaret (scribe).

Agenda

  1. Convene, take roll, recruit scribe, review agenda
  2. introducing Philippe Le Hégaret
  3. registration of mime types from standards
  4. P3P header registry
  5. next meeting
  6. file: URI scheme draft
  7. mailng list notices, archives in the W3C and IETF
  8. Remote UI BoF and Synchronized XML DOMs
  9. Calendaring and Scheduling Standards Simplification (calsify), time zone registry
  10. URI guidelines last call extended to 31 Aug
  11. syndication trends: RSS/Atom
  12. GEOPRIV, privacy and VoIP

full text: http://www.iab.org/liaisons/w3c/2005-08-15.html

IAB ad-hoc committee on ISOC technical communication

Leslie Daigle

Mailing list created for discussion; no discussion yet. Pete & Lynn will meet to decide what to do next.

IAB ad-hoc committee on IPv6

Kurtis Lindqvist

IANA registries update in RFC editor queue. Geoff presented HD ratio update talk. HD ratio good reception. Less positive response on /48 change. No progress on updating the charter. Will get last draft from Thomas. Discussion in group of Teredo prefix. Want to review by NRO and RIR.

IAB ad-hoc committee on IDN

Patrik Fältström

No report.

5. MFA Forum liaison

Our current liaison, Andy Malis, is now President of the MFA Forum. The IAB decided that it would be best to choose another liaison. The IAB discussed a potential candidate. The IAB will send a letter to the IESG explaining why the IAB thinks the liaison should be changed and suggesting the potential candidate.

6. IAOC selection document

The IAB discussed draft-iab-iesg-iaoc-selection-02.txt. The IAB confirmed that it supports the document.

7. IAB liaison to the NomCom

Four IAB members volunteered to serve as liaison to the NomCom.

Eric summarized the job as participating in many conference calls and candidate interviews.

The liaison should convey to the NomCom what documentation the IAB wants regarding the IESG slate. (See http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-07-23-nomcom.html.)

The liaison discussion in the meeting was inconclusive and the IAB agreed to discuss further on its mailing list.

8. IAB architecture-discuss list

The IAB discussed creating a new mailing list for architecture discussion, versus using an existing list like the end-to-end list.

The IAB agreed to create an open mailing list architecture-discuss@ietf.org. It is meant to be an open discussion forum for all long and/or wide range architectural concerns related to the Internet Architecture.

Pekka, Dave, Lixia, and Pete volunteered to participate in the list. The IAB supported the idea of making mobility a discussion topic.

9. Workshop plan

The IAB discussed several possible workshop topics, including IPv6, multihoming, mobility, and “bad traffic” (possibly with an economics emphasis). The IAB considered whether some of these topics had substantial research components and a meeting on the topic would be better sponsored by a research organization. The IAB discussed the possibility of holding BOFs or workshops in conjunction with events attended by the operations community. Leslie noted that realistically the IAB can hold one workshop per year. The IAB took the action of giving Pekka feedback (in the next few weeks) on a proposal for a “bad traffic” workshop.

10. Review of IAB timeline/plan

The IAB briefly discussed a spreadsheet of IAB actions and timelines that Leslie circulated. The IAB agreed to review and comment, especially on the topics and timeline.

11. AOB

The IAB discussed whether the trill WG needs a formal liaison relationship with IEEE 802.1, as documented in its current charter. The IAB concluded that a formal liaison isn’t needed to achieve the goal of document review by 802.1 (but if it were, it should be between IETF and 802.1, not trill and 802.1). Bert has the action of taking this conclusion back to the IESG, meaning that the trill charter needs to be slightly revised.


Appendix A

IAB Actions

Scope of IETF Architecture

Dave Meyer, Allison Mankin

Initiated: August 2005

Goal: Create an effort to develop a statement of the scope of the IETF architecture.

Old Status: The IESG requested that the IAB take this action.

New Status: No progress. I will turn up the priority with Allison.

Guidelines for IETF Liaisons

Loa Andersson

Initiated: June 2005

Goal: Describe IETF liaison relationship to other organizations.

Old Status: Loa has circulated a revised draft to the IAB.

New Status: Loa circulated another revision, spurring more discussion.

IESG Concerns Regarding RFC Processing

Brian Carpenter, Leslie Daigle

Initiated: May 2005

Goal: Resolve concerns regarding lack of visibility into RFC Editor state, copy-editing, and excessive author changes in AUTH48. Gather feedback from community.

Old Status: We had to reschedule the BOF for Vancouver because the draft was not finished in time for Paris.

New Status: Making progress on establishing and running an experiment with the copy-editing at a different point in the document creation/approval cycle (see IESG report and RFC Editor report).

IAB Web Site

Rich Draves

Initiated: April 2005

Goal: Review and update the public web site. Find a private web site.

Old Status: Rich has researched web hosting options; will send email with options to the list shortly.

New Status: Done. The private web site is operational at www.i1b.org.

IDN Ad Hoc

Patrik Fältström, Pete Resnick

Initiated: March 2005

Goal: Create a mailing list and initiate discussion for IAB ad hoc committee on Internationalized Domain Names.

Old Status: Face-2-face meeting at IETF 63. Outline of report created by Patrik and John Klensin.

IAB Messaging Workshop

Pete Resnick

Initiated: April 2004

Goal: Issue workshop report and create archive of workshop material.

Old Status: draft-iab-messaging-report-00 finished but it missed the draft deadline.

New Status: draft-iab-messaging-report-00 issued; see document status.

IPv6 Policies

IPv6AD Hoc Advisory Committee

Initiated: May 2004

Goal: Passed a set of current IPv6 issues to the ad-hoc IAB advisory committee on IPv6 addressing issues: ip6.int deprecation, hd-ratio considerations, minimum IANA IPv6 allocation unit, IANA IPv6 registry terminology and format

Old Status: IAB should discuss in business meeting.

New Status: See the report above. Going forward, this committee will report status and not be tracked as an action.

DNS Ops TLD Operation

Kurtis Lindqvist, Dave Meyer, Lixia Zhang

Initiated: September 2004

Goal: DNSOPS WG activity on TLD operational considerations. Offer of editorial assistance in any WG document to be made to the WG.

Old Status: Presented in DNS Ops, wide-spread support for first document, folks were more cautious about a 2nd document on registry operation. IAB will revisit in six months but this is now a WG action.

New Status: The IAB will remove this from its list of actions and revisit after the March IETF.

Architectural Issues

Pekka Nikander

Initiated: April 2005

Goal: Revise/maintain the list of architectural issues on the IAB web pages.

Old Status: No progress.

New Status: Issues and principles collected during Paris meeting. Pekka working on organising the material, Dave helping. Initial draft for new organisation expected in September 2005.

Leslie Daigle, Brian Carpenter

Initiated: November 2004

Goal: Pass RFC Editor Copyright provisions to IETF legal counsel for review with respect to permissions relating to protection of IETF interests, integrity of the IETF Standards Track documents for derivative works and relation to any third party interests in the material published by the RFC Editor.

Old Status: RFC Editor has been given legal counsel’s opinion that their web site is still wrong. It’s low on their priority list. Rich will check RFC Editor web site after Paris.

New Status: It appears that the RFC Editor has not updated their web site. Joyce took the action of pinging Bob Braden.

Research Note document proposal

Aaron Falk

Initiated: November 2004

Goal: Convene a group consisting of Vern Paxson, Brian Carpenter, Aaron Falk, and Leslie Daigle, assisted by Sally Floyd and Mark Handley to document this proposal and highlight related considerations for the IAB.

Old Status: No progress

New Status: discussed topic at IAB breakfast in Paris and on mailing list afterwards. It appears that different people want special IRTF track publications to address different perceived problems.

ISOC BoT Selection

Rich Draves, Leslie Daigle

Initiated: November 2004

Goal: Before the next round, review the RFC 3677 process. Leslie will circulate list of issues to IAB/IESG/IAOC.

Old Status: Leslie circulated the lis of issues; discussion is a separate agenda item.

New Status: Pete Resnick leading the drafting of email to IETF community on this subject; circulated a revised draft on 1 Sep. And Leslie will provide a further revised version for review.

Proposed Congestion Control RG

Aaron Falk

Initiated: January 2005

Goal: Consult with ADs on the potential role for such a RG Old status: No progress. Plan to meet with Mark Handley in Paris to push things along.

New Status: Stalled pending finding an appropriate co-chair.


Appendix B

Documents

A survey of Authentication Mechanisms

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-auth-mech-03.txt

(expired)

Eric Rescorla

Initiated: April 2002

Old Status: Some internal progress, no externally visible progress.

New Status: Some internal progress, no externally visible progress.

Internationalized Resource Identifiers

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-char-rep-02.txt

(expired)

Leslie Daigle

Initiated: November 2002

Old Status: No progress

New Status: No progress

Internet Identities

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-identities-02.txt

(expired)

Patrik Fältström, Leslie Daigle

Initiated: July 2003

Old Status: Patrik has XML from Geoff. Patrik wants to understand the IAB’s purpose in publishing this document.

New Status: Leslie is making progress on drafting comments (on the specific document text + proposed purpose).

DOS Attacks

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-dos-02.txt

Eric Rescorla

Initiated: September 2003

Old Status: Prepared a new draft. Need help filling in some sections.

New Status: Collecting/integrating input from Lixia and Dave.

Untangling Activeware

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-nat-traversal-considerations-00.txt

(expired)

Jonathan Rosenberg

Initiated: April 2004

Old Status: No progress, didn’t get to it before the deadline.

New Status: No change. Actually, the -00 expired. I’d like to resubmit with no change in content to keep it on the site until I can do a real revision.

IAB Messaging Workshop

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-messaging-report-00.txt

Pete Resnick

Initiated: April 2004

New Status: draft-iab-messaging-report-00 available. Awaiting comments. (Very few received so far.) Editing pass, and then will submit for RFC.

Top Level Domain Issues

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-dns-assumptions-03.txt

Jonathan Rosenberg

Initiated: May 2004

Old Status: Submitted -03. Jonathan thinks it’s done.

New Status: Submitted to the RFC Editor.

Design Choices When Expanding DNS

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-dns-choices-02.txt

Patrik Fältström

Initiated: June 2004

Old Status: Patrik says many comments, discussion of ease of registering new RR types. Document needs revision to incorporate details.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-link-indications-03.txt

Bernard Aboba

Initiated: June 2004

Old Status: Revising to incorporate Pekka’s comments. MPLS/routing-specific material from Loa

New Status: Revision submitted (-03) incorporating outstanding comments. Are we ready to publish? The IAB decided to ask the community for comments on the current draft. The IAB expects to decide whether to publish at its next business meeting.

IAOC Selection Procedure

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-iesg-iaoc-selection-02.txt

Bert Wijnen

Initiated: December 2004

Old Status: Finished IETF Last Call. Brian (as AD) received a number of comments. Needs revision to indicate that NomCom may use the criteria. Next step would be IESG review for approval.

New Status: New revision has been posted. Brian now to put it on IESG agenda.

IRTF Review

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-irtf-01.txt

Leslie Daigle, Aaron Falk

Initiated: December 2004

Old Status: Aaron still waiting for Dave’s comments, then IETF Last Call to make it an IAB informational document.

IEEE 802 / IETF Relationship

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-ieee-802-rel-01.txt

Loa Andersson, Bernard Aboba

Initiated: June 2005

Old Status: Revision in progress; Section 1.1. will disappear. After -01 hits the archive, next step is review by IAB, IESG & IEEE 802 ExComm.

New Status: -01 submitted. So far, no IAB/IESG review comments. Bernard will officially request that Bert put the draft on the IESG agenda, with a DISCUSS while waiting on IEEE.

Remaining Issues with the Core IPv6 Protocols

(waiting for -00 draft)

David Meyer

Initiated: July 2005

Old Status: Dave has an outline.

New Status: This one is slow going, but I’ll up the priorty. Bob and Kurtis are helping out.

Mobility Principles (working name)

(waiting for -00 draft)

Pekka Nikander

Initiated: August 2005

New Status: Work started, -00 version expected late September / early October 2005.


These minutes were prepared by Rich Draves from notes by Bob Hinden and Leslie Daigle; comments should be sent to execd@iab.org. An online copy of these and other minutes is available at: http://www.iab.org/documents/iabmins/

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