Loa Anderson (IAB Liaison to the IESG)
Stuart Cheshire
Lars Eggert (IESG Liaison to the IAB)
Aaron Falk (IRTF Chair)
Russ Housley (IETF Chair)
Olaf Kolkman (IAB Chair)
Gregory Lebovitz
Barry Leiba
Andy Malis
David Oran
Danny McPherson
Dow Street (IAB Executive Director)
Dave Thaler
Lixia Zhang
Gonzalo Camarillo
Sandy Ginoza (RFC Editor Liaison)
Kurtis Lindqvist
Lynn St. Amour (ISOC Liaison)
The Executive Director recently received a suggestion to remove the
‘nospam’ html device embedded in IAB member email addresses on the
IAB public web page. At issue was the way some browsers include
this device when a cut-and-paste operation is conducted on the
address, even though it is not visible on the screen. The concern
was raised that this situation could result in email intended for
an IAB member being inadvertently sent to an incorrect address,
without the sender or IAB member being aware. The board decided to
alter the web pages so as to use the common ‘AT’ convention
instead, an approach that is familiar to many internet users and
alleviates the concern of incorrect delivery.
The board then reviewed the IAB meeting calendar for Nov 08 – Jan
09.
The IAB approved final minutes for the following meetings:
2008-05-21 Minutes
2008-05-28 Minutes
2008-09-17 Minutes
2008-09-24 Minutes
Olaf noted that the 17 Sep minutes included an item on ITU-T SG-17
work, and asked if there was an update. Barry stated that he and
Kurtis need to talk to Scott Bradner about the topic.
The IAB agreed on two topics for the Sunday lunch with the IESG:
v4-v6 transition and SIPSO. In the IAB-only meeting that follows,
the board will review the P2P document Gonzalo has been working,
discuss recent IANA developments, and hold a working session on
Assumptions of the IP Model. For the last item Dave Thaler will
lead the discussion using slides he presented at the recent Mobiarch
workshop at SIGCOMM.
Aaron noted that the P2P RG is planned for the usual IAB RG review
on Thursday morning at IETF. The P2P RG has new chairs, and Aaron
is working with them on the charter. The selection of the P2P RG
will work well given the IAB’s P2P discussion on Sunday.
There was a short discussion on the talk for the technical plenary.
Dave Thaler will give the initial presentation, which will be
followed by a panel Q&A with the whole IAB. All board members will
review the latest draft, and will finalize plans at the Tuesday
morning meeting of IETF.
The group discussed liaison shepherding and plans for liaison
coordination leading up to the IETF meeting. Most liaisons now
have IAB shepherds assigned, and all should have shepherds by the
meeting.
There was a short discussion to ensure that all IETF 73 BOFs will
have IAB participation.
Olaf recently posted a second version of the RFC editor model
draft, which clarifies a few areas where there had been issues
raised. The plan is to initiate a 3-4 week last call, after which
the document will be submitted for publication as an RFC. The IAOC
has contacted a number of people to establish an ad-hoc advisory
committee as mentioned in appendix A.1 of the RFC editor model
(draft-iab-rfc-editor-model-02.txt) to assist the IAOC in preparing
and evaluating RFI and a consequent RFP. The IAB decided to ask
these people to serve them during the selection of the Independent
Series Editor, and possibly the RFC Series Editor.
Dow sent a first draft of the UN response this morning and
requested comments from the IAB. The draft basically follows the
outline agreed to at the last meeting. Dow and Olaf have also been
coordinating with Bill Graham (ISOC) on the response, and Bill
suggested that it would be especially helpful to have the letter
to the UN before the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in mid-
November. As such, Dow will revise the draft and distribute a
final copy for IAB approval during the 18 November meeting.
The NTIA recently requested feedback on a plan to deploy DNSSEC:
http://frwebgate5.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAIS
docID=559077321003+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
The IAB has been working on a response, and Olaf updated the group
on the latest text. The IAB agreed that it would also be worth-
while to send out a slightly more polished version to a few people
in the field prior to submitting to NTIA. A plan was made to
finalize and approve the text at the 18 November meeting. Olaf
noted that the DNS working group at RIPE also had some hallway
discussion on the NTIA solicitation.
The board discussed a variety of scenarios that could present a
real or perceived Conflict of Interest (COI) in appointment
processes. The initial question involved whether it would be
inappropriate for someone on an IAOC appointing committee to
support the appointment of another individual from the same
company. The discussion then went on to include a variety of
potential COI cases that could arise in IAOC, NOMCOM, WG chair
selection, etc. The group decided that at present there is no
problem (since the question was a hypothetical), and that the issue
would be addressed if and when it arises. It was also noted that
COI in IESG selection would likely have greater impact than in IAOC
selection, and that NOMCOM is supposed to consider such factors.
Committee
Olaf reported that during the OECD meeting in Korea, the IEC
secretary raised the idea of establishing a group from the
technical community to provide technical guidance and input. It
was suggested that the IAB support this model and be part of the
committee (in the context of supporting ISOC with technical
advice). The IAB agreed that this was a good idea.
Danny distributed an update on the anycast draft and received
feedback from about 20% of the IAB. He is incorporating the
comments into a new version, and in alignment with Kurtis’
suggestion will shift the theme toward a more architectural focus.
All board members were requested to review the latest draft and
provide feedback to Danny.
The status of this item has not significantly changed, but the
topic is on the IESG agenda this week. There could be an RFC
shortly, at which point the IAB would need to take its next action.
Olaf and Russ will coordinate on the inclusion (or not) of IAB
considerations in the ENUM document.
The last call went out on this document. Dave Thaler has received
three responses so far, and will work with Bernard to update the
draft.
Dave Thaler previously send an email about the universal
availability of unknown resource record types. No one has yet
responded to that mail, so Olaf took an action to reply and restart
the discussion.
(no update)
Gregory noted that he needs to finish his review and coordinate
Bernard. He should have some time to work on this after IETF.
This item was discussed earlier in the meeting as part of the IETF
planning.
The IAB also agreed to add two new documents to their internal
tracker:
– Peer-to-peer (P2P) Architectures
– Defining the Role and Function of IETF Protocol Parameter
Registry Operators
On October 6th Magnus sent a question from some of the IESG asking
how the current IAB sees the RFC 3424 recommendations relating to
new work on v4/v6 translation. Dave Thaler worked on a response,
and at the meeting walked through several considerations with the
rest of the IAB. The general theme of the response is that the
previous IAB statements in RFC 3424 still hold, but that 3424
guidance really applies to proposals where an originating endpoint
attempts to determine or fix the address by which it is known to
another endpoint, not to actual *translation* proposals. The IAB
agrees that the real exit strategy to v4-v6 translation is
universal IPv6 deployment.
Dave posted the text of the response for review by the IAB and will
plan to send the response next week.