Cindy Morgan noted that she will send a reminder for the ICANN Technical Liaison Group call for nominations.
Cindy Morgan reminded the IAB to make their hotel reservations for IETF 95.
The minutes of the 9 December 2015 business meeting remain under review.
The internal action item list was reviewed.
–Begin ISOC Liaison Report, Mat Ford–
Internet Society Liaison Report to the IAB
16 Dec 2015
Topics:
I. IEEE-ISOC Fellowship Exchange
II. Discussion Paper: The Mobile App Divide
III. ICANN accountability
IV. W3C Privacy Interest Group (PING)
I. IEEE-ISOC Fellowship Exchange
The inaugural IEEE-ISOC Fellowship Exchange was recently succesfully
delivered. The objective of this programme is to deepen the
participation of individuals from developing countries in open Internet
standards development. This will be achieved by sending small cohorts to
IETF meetings and IEEE 802 Plenary meetings. The first group
participated in the recently concluded 802 Plenary in Dallas. They will
also participate in the IETF 95 meeting in Buenos Aires. The next cohort
will attend the 802 Plenary in Macau and the IETF 96 meeting in Berlin.
II. Discussion Paper: The Mobile App Divide
The Internet Society released the first paper in its new Discussion
Paper Series. This paper presents the mobile app economy as creating
significant revenues and opportunities for entrepreneurs, but notes that
these are not available in all countries. In developing regions, there
are often only a few countries where app developers can distribute paid
apps through app stores - in most other countries they can only provide
free apps, and in some countries there is not even the possibility to
provide free apps. In style, the discussion papers are intended to be
longer than a blog post and shorter than a full research study, and
likewise, in substance they represent our emerging opinion, but do not
represent a final Internet Society position. Instead, we intend these
papers as a means to gather information and insight from our community
on the topics. The discussion will inform our view on the issue, and
will be reflected in a revised version of the paper.
See <http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/discussion-paper-mobile-app-divide>
for details.
III. ICANN accountability
The CCWG-Accountability has just released its proposal and is seeking
community feedback. The Draft Proposal contains proposed enhancements to
ICANN’s accountability framework that have been identified as essential
to happen or be committed to before the IANA Stewardship Transition
takes place.
The six Chartering Organizations for the CCWG-Accountability are asked
to indicate their support for the recommendations in this proposal. At
the same time, public participants not involved with a Chartering
Organization are invited to comment on the proposal. The CCWG-
Accountability will attempt to reconcile reactions from Chartering
Organizations and public comment prior to submission to the ICANN Board
of Directors (currently anticipated for late January 2016).
IV. W3C Privacy Interest Group (PING)
The Privacy Interest Group (PING) has published a Draft Group Note of
Fingerprinting Guidance for Web Specification Authors here:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/NOTE-fingerprinting-guidance-20151124/>
Feedback is invited and welcome. A recent blogpost also highlights this
work and mentions other tools being developed by W3C to ensure security
and privacy of the open Web platform
<https://www.w3.org/blog/2015/12/tools-to-ensure-security-and-privacy-of-the-open-web-platform/>
–End ISOC Liaison Report, Mat Ford–
–Begin IESG Liaison Report, Alia Atlas–
IESG Discussing:
An IESG Statement on Virtual Meetings
Recent new working groups:
Codec Encoding for LossLess Archiving and Realtime transmission
(cellar)
Current new chartering:
CAPtive PORTal interaction (capport) - IESG approved, pending charter edits
CURves, Deprecating and a Little more Encryption (curdle)
Font Top Level Media Type (justfont)
Current rechartering:
Pending rechartering:
Recently closed working groups:
Personnel changes:
RMCAT chair addition: added Anna Brunstrom
–End IESG Liaison Report, Alia Atlas–
–Begin IRTF Chair Report, Lars Eggert–
- ANRP 2016 selection completed, six out of 49 papers chosen
- T2TRG and HRPC chartered
–End IRTF Chair Report, Lars Eggert–
–Begin ICANN Liaison Report, Jonne Soininen–
I. Public Comments needing attention (only highlights)
=======================================================
(All public comment processes: https://www.icann.org/public-
comments#open-public)
CCWG-Accountability - Draft Proposal on Work Stream 1 Recommendations
(https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-ccwg-accountability-
proposal-2015-11-30-en)
End date: 21 Dec 2015
Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Operational Profile for gTLD
Registries and Registrars (https://www.icann.org/public-comments/rdap-
profile-2015-12-03-en)
End date: 18 Jan 2016
Label Generation Ruleset for the Root Zone Version 1 (LGR-1)
(https://www.icann.org/public-comments/lgr-1-2015-12-04-en)
II. Upcoming topics that could be relevant
===========================================
CCWG accountability draft report
--------------------------------------------
CCWG has published their last draft and sent it for approval to the
chartering organization, which should then in the end of the process
approve the final report. There is also a expedited public comment
period going on, which will end by December 21st, 2015. There are
certainly issues in the report that do concern the IAB/IETF and IAB
should consider commenting on the report.
Board comments on the CCWG report
---------------------------------------------------
The ICANN board has provided its comments to the draft report
(http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-draft-ccwg-accountability-
proposal-30nov15/msg00013.html). The board's intention is to improve the
report and the comments are intended to be very constructive. The board
is trying to highlight the areas where there are some issues and is also
trying to provide a potential solution for the issues. However, it is
understood that these proposals for solutions might be needing work
together with the CCWG.
RDAP profile
------------------
IAB might want to take a look at the RDAP profile under open
consultation in ICANN (https://www.icann.org/public-comments/rdap-
profile-2015-12-03-en) as it relates to the use of IETF work.
III. (If relevant) upcoming meeting topics of importance
=========================================================
ICANN#55 Marrakech March 5-10, 2016
–End ICANN Liaison Report, Jonne Soininen–
–Begin IANA Liaison Report, Michelle Cotton–
IANA Liaison Report – 16 December 2015
2014 SLA Deliverables Update:
- ICANN met 98% of processing goal times for the November 2015 monthly
statistic exceeding the SLA goal to meet 90% of processing goal times.
These times include the steps that the IANA Department has control over
and not time it is waiting on requesters, document authors or other
experts.
Other News:
- We have completed a request for .arpa, which included updating the
IPv4 and IPv6 for h.root-servers.net
–End IANA Liaison Report, Michelle Cotton–
–Begin RFC Editor Liaison Report, Heather Flanagan–
RSE Update
* Format project
The documents capturing the XML vocabulary and various format
requirements have been accepted as IAB stream documents. The documents
are undergoing a review by the IAB; after the review and resolution of
any issues, the documents will be sent out for community comment.
* European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
Thanks to an introduction by Joe Hildebrand, the RSE met with staff at
ETSI to discuss the RFC publication process and format project. ETSI is
considering a document format change and are interested in how Internet
Drafts are created, how the editing process might change with the new
format, and what decisions and challenges were involved with the RFC
format project. They are particularly interested in annotating
requirements within a standards document, and helping authors find a
more collaborative workflow than exchanging MS Word documents.
Additional conversations may develop as they learn more about other
activities in the standards publishing space (i.e., NISO's Standards
Tagging Suite effort; see below).
* RFC Editor Automated Stats and Metrics project
The Statement of Work for the Stats and Metrics project has been updated
to reflect the change in SLA structure for 2016. This is a fairly minor
change to the SoW, and the Tools Committee is planning a final review on
their 15 December call. Current expectations have the RFP and SoW going
out shortly.
* International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical
Publishers workshops
The RSE attended the recent STM association workshops in London. The STM
association met for three days to discuss current trends in the digital
publishing industry, look at innovations that may impact the industry
going forward, and to think about what role publisher play in the ethics
of science. Particular points of interest included discussion on the
challenges around publishing for an international market (one publisher
had to create their own font to support the range of characters they
needed to display in their various journal, book, and database
platforms), as well as a discussion on "build versus buy" as it applies
to the publishing arena. Some publishers, for example, have chosen to
focus purely on the selection and editing of material, leaving the
hosting and distribution to specialists. When discussing ethics and
research integrity, several of the speakers noted the issues with
accountability and long author lists, a problem that the RFC Editor and
the document streams managed to mitigate early on in the history of the
Series.
The agendas and presentations are available online:
> [STM Digital Publishing 2015](https://www.stm-assoc.org/events/digital-publishing-seminar-2015/)
> [Innovations Seminar 2015](https://www.stm-assoc.org/events/innovations-seminar-2015/)
> [Publication Ethics and Research Integrity](https://www.stm-assoc.org/events/publication-ethics-and-research-integrity/)
*NISO Standards Tagging Suite
The NISO STS working group has begun having phone calls to review the
requirements for a Standards Tagging Suite. The RSE is participating in
this effort to see what from the xml2rfc v3 vocabulary might be useful
and applicable to the STS effort and what, in turn, might come out of
the STS effort that could inform our XML vocabulary. An announcement of
the project is available online: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sts/
RPC Update
* The SLA was not met for November 2015. See the stats and reports here:
> [Reports](https://www.rfc-editor.org/report-summary/)
* Happy Holidays!
Please note that AMS is closed from Dec 24 - Jan 1; we will return to
work on Jan 4. Please continue to send mail to
<rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>, as we will be checking the mail for urgent
issues.
–End RFC Editor Liaison Report, Heather Flanagan–
The IAB will continue the discussion about whether to have a technical topic on the DNSSEC trust anchor rollover at IETF 95 via email.
Andrew Sullivan has an action item to draft text for the comments on the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Operational Profile for gTLD Registries and Registrars and send them out to the IAB and Privacy and Security Program mailing lists for review. Marc Blanchet and Russ Housley agreed to help with this if needed.
The IAB discussed how to handle comments on the RFC Format drafts that cannot be resolved by the document authors without IAB input. The IAB agreed to ask RSOC for their recommendations. Ted Hardie will draft a message with the current outstanding questions and send it to RSOC.
The IAB discussed dates for the 2016 retreat, noting the tradeoffs between having the retreat earlier, having everyone able to attend in-person, and co-locating with the IESG. Currently, the week of May 16-20 is most preferred by the IAB. Jari Arkko will follow up with the IESG on their dates at the next IESG meeting.
The IAB approved a response to the CCWG-accountability 3rd draft proposal. Andrew Sullivan will fill out the survey and include the IAB comments; Cindy Morgan will post the comments on the IAB website.
Additionally, the IAB discussed whether to comment on the CCWG-Accountability suggestion that the operational communities be given veto power over the IANA budget. Jonne Soininen will ask the ICANN Board to clarify the suggestion, and based on their response to that inquiry, Andrew Sullivan will start an e-vote on the proposed comments.
Lars Eggert will draft text for the desired expertise for the IRTF Chair Role. Robert Sparks and Brian Trammell agreed to help edit the text.
Cindy Morgan will update the iab-confirm mailing list with the current non-recused IAB members who will confirm the IESG slate from NomCom. Robert Sparks will let the NomCom Chair know to send their materials to that list.