Minutes of the 2025-02-19 IAB Business Meeting 1. Administrivia 1.1. Attendance Present: Roman Danyliw (IETF Chair) Dhruv Dhody Liz Flynn (IETF Secretariat) Wes Hardaker Cullen Jennings Mirja Kühlewind Warren Kumari (Incoming IAB) Jason Livingood (Incoming IAB) Cindy Morgan (IAB Executive Administrative Manager) Tommy Pauly (IAB Chair) Colin Perkins (IRTF Chair) Alvaro Retana John Scudder (IESG Liaison) Sabrina Tanamal (IANA Liaison) Christopher Wood Greg Wood (IETF Director of Communications and Operations) Qin Wu Regrets: Alissa Cooper Matthew Bocci Jana Iyengar (Incoming IAB) Suresh Krishnan Dirk Kutscher (Incoming IRTF Chair) David Lawrence (ICANN Board Liaison) Mark Nottingham (Incoming IAB) Ryan Polk (ISOC Liaison) David Schinazi 1.2. Agenda bash and announcements 1.3. Meeting Minutes The following meeting minutes were approved: • 2025-02-05 business meeting - (submitted 2025-02-05) 1.4. Action Item Review Done: • 2025-02-05: Cindy Morgan to add Alvaro Retana as a co-chair for IAB Open. • 2025-02-05: Liz Flynn to update the IAB Open meeting request at IETF 122 to have two one-hour sessions. • 2025-02-05: Cindy Morgan to send an e-vote to finish the ISOC BoT selection. • 2025-02-05: Cindy Morgan to update the IAB calendar to add meetings at 0600 PT between IETF 122 and IETF 124. • 2025-02-05: Cindy Morgan to follow up with the IESG about retreat timing. On Hold: • 2024-12-18: Suresh Krishnan to try and schedule a technical discussion about the Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE). • 2023-06-07: Dhruv Dhody and Wes Hardaker to track adding IAB review of proposed WG charters to the Datatracker. - See https://github.com/ietf-tools/datatracker/issues/5849 In Progress: • 2025-01-22: Suresh Krishnan to draft a wiki page detailing what information the IAB needs from NomCom in order to confirm IESG candidates. New: • 2025-02-19: Cindy Morgan to follow up with David Schinazi about kicking off the IAB Chair selection process. • 2025-02-19: Mirja Kühlewind to send email proposing times for the New Work Help Desk once the final agenda for IETF 122 is published. • 2025-02-19: Cindy Morgan to invite Scott Mansfield to an IAB meeting at IETF 122 to discuss boilerplate responses to liaison statements. • 2025-02-19: Tommy Pauly to respond to Daniel Migault's email regarding the RSSAC document "Guidelines for Changing IP Addresses." 1.5. IAB Document Status Update - No updates this week Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/stream/iab/ I-D submission deadline for IETF 122: 2025-03-03 • draft-iab-bias-workshop-report-02 AUTH48: Informational IAB Shepherd: Suresh Krishnan • draft-edm-protocol-greasing-04 Maintaining Protocols Using Grease and Variability I-D Exists, IAB stream IAB Shepherd: Not assigned • draft-iab-ai-control-report-00 IAB AI-CONTROL Workshop Report I-D Exists, IAB stream IAB Shepherd: Not assigned • draft-iab-nemops-workshop-report-01 Report from the IAB Workshop on the Next Era of Network Management Operations (NEMOPS) I-D Exists, IAB stream IAB Shepherd: Not assigned 1.6. IAB Review of WG Charters - No updates this week Datatracker: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/chartering/ • Digital Emblems (DIEM) Area: INT Internal Review IESG Telechat: 2025-02-20 IAB Shepherds: Suresh Krishnan, Mirja Kühlewind IAB Reviewer: Wes Hardaker • Update to IANA Considerations (IANABIS) Area: GEN Approved pending the naming of chairs IESG Telechat: (not on agenda) IAB Reviewer: Mirja Kühlewind • RESTful Provisioning Protocol (RPP) Area: ART External Review IESG Telechat: 2025-02-20 IAB Reviewer: Tommy Pauly 1.7 IAB Appointments The ISOC Board of Trustees announcement will be released around 2025-04-24, coordinated with other ISOC announcements. The next appointment process will be for the Community Coordination Group, which will kick off in May 2025. 2. Monthly Written Reports and Other Brief Updates 2.1 IANA Liaison Report --Begin IANA Liaison Report, Sabrina Tanamal-- IANA Services Liaison Report – 19 February 2025 SLA Deliverables Update: ICANN met 99% of processing goal times for the January 2025 monthly statistics report, exceeding the SLA goal to meet 90% of processing goal times. These times include the steps that ICANN has control over and not time it is waiting on requesters, document authors or other experts. Monthly reports can be found at: https://www.iana.org/performance/ietf-statistics --End IANA Liaison Report, Sabrina Tanamal-- 2.2 IRTF Chair Report --Begin IRTF Chair Report, Colin Perkins-- IRTF Chair report to the IAB for the month ending 2025-02-19 Research Groups The new SUSTAIN RG is chartered and will meet for the first time in Bangkok. ANRP The ANRP talks for IETF 122 in Bangkok will be given by Changjie Wang (“NetConfEval: Can LLMs Facilitate Network Configuration”) and Henry Birge-Lee (“Tango: Secure Collaborative Route Control across the Public Internet”). The talk schedule is confirmed for the remainder of 2025. ANRW Planning for ANRW 2025 is ongoing. An initial call for papers is available at https://www.irtf.org/anrw/2025/ with an planned paper submission deadline of 15 April. Documents and Errata In RG Last Call: draft-irtf-cfrg-aead-limits draft-irtf-cfrg-dnhpke draft-irtf-cfrg-aegis-aead Waiting for IRTF Chair: draft-fluhrer-lms-more-parm-sets IESG Review Completed draft-irtf-cfrg-kangarootwelve IESG Review Completed In IESG Review: draft-perkins-irtf-code-of-conduct draft-irtf-iccrg-rledbat draft-irtf-nmrg-green-ps draft-irtf-coinrg-use-cases Sent to the RFC Editor: draft-irtf-cfrg-opaque draft-irtf-cfrg-aead-properties Other Activities Applications for diversity travel grants for IETF 123, in Madrid, have opened with a deadline of 21 March 2025. The goal of opening travel grant applications early is to allow awardees more time to organise visas. IRTF Chair transition planning is underway. --End IRTF Chair Report, Colin Perkins-- 2.3 Tools Liaison Report --Begin Tools Liaison Report, Wes Hardaker-- -email transition -Sirius is close to finishing the transition during Feb -new addresses started warming on Feb 1 -half outbound traffic is now emitted through new machine -datatracker heavy usage mitigations -Switching to Cloudflare managed challenges -Better caching of meeting proceedings -file storage switching to blob storage -currently in testing -would like to switch before submission deadline for IETF-122 -new LetEncrypt cert for SMTP -TLSA changes also being accordingly for encrypted sessions -Liaison management tooling -currently at “discussing requirements” level -re-implementation will start after the datatracker robustness changes get done -next meeting: moving to a week earlier due to IETF traveling: March 4 --End Tools Liaison Report, Wes Hardaker-- 2.4 IAB Outreach Coordinator Report --Begin IAB Outreach Coordinator Report, Dhruv Dhody-- There is an outreach activity planned by the IAB this month. -A panel at APRICOT/APNIC -Enhancing APAC Regional and Operator Engagement in the IETF -Panelist - Dhruv, Gunter, Zahed, Raj Singh (APNIC), Takashi Tomine (WIDE), Mohit Tahiliani (NITK); Moderated by Noelle (ISOC) -Some "individuals" participated in events: -Suresh presented an update on the IAB NEMOPS workshop at NANOG Some key upcoming events of importance are - -APNIC/APRICOT (Malaysia, Feb 2025) -ICANN 82 (Seattle, March 2025) -NetDev0x19 (Zagreb, March 2025) IAB NEMOPS workshop outreach -Dhruv will be presenting at APRICOT 2025 -Alvaro will be presenting at LACNIC 43 -PC already presented in LACNIC42/NANOG92/RIPE89/AutoConn2/NANOG93. News: -Colin and Dirk have a webinar scheduled for LACNIC research community -IGF will be held early in June 2025 in Norway, last date to make submission is 12th March -A strawman proposal for a panel circulated in IAB-ISOC group -WSIS+20 High level events is in July 2025 in Geneva -IAB needs to finalize if/who/how we should participate in IGF & WSIS+20 -Guidance from ISOC on the best way to participate is needed --End IAB Outreach Coordinator Report, Dhruv Dhody-- 2.5 EODir Liaison Report Mirja Kühlewind reported that there is a full day of newcomers events planned for Sunday at IETF 122. 2.6 ICANN Liaison Report --Begin ICANN Liaison Report, Dave Lawrence-- ICANN has been surprisingly quiet as it gears back up into its regular, post-holidays workflow. "Surprisingly" because a significant change in the US government happened shortly after the last report, causing chaos in many sectors of society. Members of leadership (both board and staff) who have been most deeply involved in the federal government had been cautiously optimistic that ICANN was not under direct thread, and took some comfort in known Republican allies and a sense that perhaps ICANN being a private corporation works in its favor. As political events have unfolded, my own concern grows significantly that anything could happen, and that the Multistakeholder Model is more under threat now than ever, not just from the US but in other venues. This does get discussed among the board, with regular updates from staff about happenings at the ITU, WSIS, IGF, and the EU Commission's public consultation on Internet Governance. The ICANN Government Engagement team is closely tracking the environment, though has not yet reported any direct danger. Staff has worked on an internal paper of the various possible threats proposed, and the board came up with a couple of more possibilities that they would like to see addressed. Indirectly related, ICANN and IANA are still at odds with Russia over the retirement of the .su ccTLD. This action was started over 20 years ago, with an expectation that it would be removed from the root zone within about a year of the initial announcement in 2003. Various interventions have kept it alive all of this time, and several years ago ICANN spun up its process for having the ccNSO determine the policy and its implementation. Fast forwarding to the present, ICANN has again tried to move the ball forward present, although still with a fairly long horizon of years before .su would be remove. ICANN staff has been meeting with both NTIA and Russian representatives over the matter, and another delay in the process has been introduced until after our Seattle meeting in March. The political situation is tricky, and another stressor on the overall governance system. David has participated in the Board Workshop in Marina del Rey at the end of January, which had a significant number of confidential meetings with the new CEO, Kurt Lindqvist. It is generally agreed that Kurt has been off to a good start. The board also reviewed the work that the new ICANN Ombuds, Liz Field, has been doing around the anti-harassment policy and what involve the ombuds and what doesn't. When finalized, this could be useful for the IETF to review for relevant applicability to our own organization. Some conversation was begun on the possibility of a board reorganization due to its heavy workload in operational matters. Nothing formal is yet presented, but there does seem to be an appetite to consider it when the current external threat situation is less salient. David continues to recuse himself from discussion of the Grant Program, because of his association with the grant-seeking IETF, and the Next Round gTLD program, because his employer is likely to seek a toplevel domain in it. Working groups, caucuses and committees have started their regular cadence for the year, with David participating in the caucuses on IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLDs and Data Protection and Privacy, the Board Risk Committee and Board Technical Committee, and working grounds on Anti-Harassment and on IDN Universal Acceptance. Of these meetings, there are only two notable topics to relay. First, in the privacy area, there is active work on transitioning the Registration Data Request Service (for legitimate access to non-public registration data) out of its pilot program to being a formal service. In IDN land, there is a lot of work being done both technically and as outreach to prepare for potentially many more internationalized toplevel domain names on the network, beyond the four dozen that currently exist. David's official addition to the board continues with three more meetings yet to be completed over the next month to finalize the onboarding process. The ICANN 82 meeting will be the week of March 9th in Seattle, immediately preceding IETF Bangkok the following week. He will be arriving in Bangkok on Sunday, 16 March and available until Saturday the 22nd. --End ICANN Liaison Report, Dave Lawrence-- 3. IAB Chair Selection Process for 2025-2026 David Schinazi has volunteered to lead the IAB chair selection process this year. The IAB will choose its chair at the Sunday meeting of IETF 122. Cindy Morgan will coordinate the details with David. 4. New Work Help Desk The IAB discussed having a New Work Help Desk during IETF 122. Some times have been proposed and will be confirmed after the final agenda is published on 2025-02-21. 5. IAB Agendas at IETF 122 The IAB discussed potential agenda topics for its IETF 122 meetings. 6. E-Vote: Joint Letter against UK Government Attack on Encryption Via e-vote, the IAB agreed to sign the "Joint Letter on the UK Government's use of Investigatory Powers Act to attack End-to- End Encryption" (https://www.globalencryption.org/2025/02/joint- letter-on-the-uk-governments-use-of-investigatory-powers-act-to- attack-end-to-end-encryption/). Tommy Pauly and Chris Wood recused themselves from the vote. 7. Next IAB Meeting The next meeting will be on 2025-02-26 and will contain the "IAB Onboarding and Review" presentation. 8. RSSAC Guidelines for Changing IP Addresses The IAB discussed email from the RSSAC liaison about the proposed RSSAC Guidelines for Changing IP Addresses. Tommy Pauly will respond to the email.