2009-12-09
PRESENT
Marcelo Bagnulo
Ron Bonica (IESG liaison to the IAB)
Stuart Cheshire
John Klensin
Olaf Kolkman (IAB Chair)
Gregory Lebovitz
Andy Malis
Danny McPherson
David Oran
Jon Peterson
Dow Street (IAB Executive Director)
Dave Thaler
APOLOGIES
Gonzalo Camarillo
Aaron Falk (IRTF Chair)
Vijay Gill
Sandy Ginoza (RFC Editor Liaison)
Russ Housley (IETF Chair)
Lynn St. Amour (ISOC Liaison)
No agenda changes were made.
During agenda item #5, Andy mentioned that the TLP draft is almost ready. The board agreed that barring major new issues, the document is ready for submission at the conclusion of the public call for comments.
The transcript from the IETF 76 Technical Plenary has been cleaned up and is ready for a final IAB review before posting to the IETF proceedings page. Unlike previous IETF meetings, the IETF 76 plenary had a professional transcriptionist. There was general agreement that having a live projected transcription of the presentations and Q&A was very helpful, especially for participants who are not native english speakers. It was further noted that fully correcting this transcript for posting to the proceedings is somewhat labor intensive, so a later discussion was planned to decide how to handle any future transcripts of this type.
Olaf reported that ISE and RSE interviews are still ongoing. There is less urgency to close on candidates before the end of the year now that Bob Braden has been retained. John will forward the current candidate list to the IAB.
Olaf reported that after the last ISOC meeting, he, Leslie Daigle, and Bill Graham had talked about the fact that in discussions between ISOC staff and representatives of the European Commission (EC) the topic of RPKI had come up. In that context he asked Bill Graham to comment on the IAB’s draft statement. Olaf also reported that he had shared a draft with Raul Echeberria (LACNIC, NRO Chair) in order to inform the NRO on the forthcoming statement. There was a short discussion about further coordination with ISOC and the NRO; the IAB will revisit this work item in the coming weeks.
Olaf summarized his recent meeting with Rod Beckstrom, who recently took over as ICANN Chair. The primary topic they discussed was the IANA function, specifically the protocol parameters registration, that is currently being executed by ICANN and for which the IAB has an oversight responsibility. They also briefly talked about .local and the recent ICANN root scaling report.
The board entered into a discussion of .local, particularly whether this kind of ‘reservation’ had specific IETF or IANA considerations issues issue. Stuart noted that with .local there is no NS record, so it is beyond what you can express with usual mechanisms. The group then considered other potentially similar requests that could arise in the future. Dave Oran noted that a reservation of this type would prevent the string from being assigned in the future as a TLD. Dave Thaler added that there are the separate questions of (i) the process for adding an entry to the reserved list and (ii) process for using something already on that list. A new registry for this kind of names was suggested as a possibility. Stuart argued that the particular nature of .local made it unlikely that there would be other similar needs like this in the future. The IAB will coordinate further with the IESG and IANA on a way forward.
Danny is in the process of developing the draft plan for the IETF 77 plenary. He pointed the board to the draft plan on the internal IAB wiki. Vijay is currently coordinating the IETF 78 talk, but was not on the IAB call due to a schedule conflict.
The board briefly re-visited the idea of an IAB / ISOC white-paper on the Protocol Internationalization topic. Dave Thaler, John, and Lynn will discuss further offline.
Olaf had recently proposed an IAB advisory group to assist in tracking ITU-T technical work. He asked the board to comment on the idea via the mailing list.
Note: Due to time constraints, only the following action items were reviewed:
This IAB tracking item was closed based on the recent liaison response from the ITU-T.
The group confirmed their intent to take this as an IAB draft, and will begin tracking it as document status item.
This action will be revisited in the context of the white-paper discussion and the Encoding draft (see below).
Note: Due to time constraints, only the following documents were reviewed:
Dave Thaler suggested maintaining the current scope of the document rather than adding material on mappings, which could instead be published as a separate document. This will allow the current draft to be finalized sooner. John agreed to draft some introductory text that puts the current document in the larger of the larger problem space. They will also talk to Patrik Faltstrom and Rob Austein about adding some history on the development of punycode.