Minutes of the fifth RIPE NCC Executive Board Meeting

Date: 12 June 1998 14:00 - 15:00 by telephone

Version: 0.1

Present: 
Keith Mitchell, 
Rob Blokzijl, 
Frode Greisen, 
Daniel Karrenberg, 
Kees Neggers, 
Wim Vink, 
Wilfried Woeber.


Agenda 

The meeting was devoted to the US Govt White paper and the process
of setting up the new IANA. 

Discussion

The white paper was discussed in detail.  In particular the following
points were raised.  The new IANA Corperation has not been defined yet
but it will be a not for profit Corporation, located in the US.  The
board of the Corporation will be the governing organ and will check if
the process of doing business is done in a fair way.  There will be
Councils for the various stake holders.  The most important thing for
RIPE NCC is to take an active role in defining the role of the Address
Council. 

- Address Council  
  This Council will be designed to have the representation of the Regional 
  Registries. The new Corporation will define the global addressing policies. 
  Drawing up the policies and coordination between the RIRs will be done in 
  the Address Council.

- Naming Council
  This Council not of direct intereste to the RIPE NCC, 
  however we are currently still doing work for RIPE CENTR. 
  The ccTLD participants have made it clear that they want to keep 
  the policy in their own hands. They have established a policy group, with
  Boudewijn Nederkoorn as its chairman. The board agrees that the 
  RIPE NCC should not be involved in the polical part, besides keeping 


  contact with the CENTR policy group and coordinate activities.

- Engineering Council 
  Council which includes the Engineering community/IETF.

- User/Industry Council 
  Not clearly defined yet.
  The European Commission is trying to get some European Council counter 
  weight.


Conclusions

After discussion the following conclusions were drawn:

The RIPE NCC welcomes and supports the setup of a new IANA corporation. 

The RIPE NCC shall take an active role in the development of the new
IANA and the address council in particular together with the other RIRs.

THe RIPE NCC should not be distracted by the wording of the WP and
should concentrate on setting up the new body. 

THe RIPE NCC will not question locating the new IANA in the US as long
as current IANA staff will be part of the new IANA at least initially. 

The RIPE NCC will contribute to the costs of the current IANA in
preparation for setting up a new entity, preferably together with the
other RIRs. 


Related Issues

There will be a workshop in Washington on the 1st and 2nd of July which
bills itself as Global Incorporation Alliance workshop and wants to
document consensus on these issues.  Research shows that this appears to
be mainly supported by NSI.  APNIC will not attend.  It is not certain
whether John Postel shall attend this workshop.  The Washington meeting
is not prepared and defined well enough to attend it without the danger
of being misunderstood or misrepresented.  DK was asked to continue
observing this development and to attend at his own discretion if
necessary.  A major consideration is whether the current IANA will be
attending or not. 

The WP will also bediscussed in ISOC.  A session is scheduled to discuss
this during the conference in Geneva.  ISOC is willing to organise this.
The board expects that the Geneva meeting will be the crucial focus for
the discussion.  The board plan to discuss the new IANA and the address
council with the APNIC and ARIN boards in Geneva. 

Boudewijn Neederkoorn has asked Daniel accompany him to the US on a trip
explaining CENTR to various people including Jon Postel and the Dept of
Commerce.  Daniel and Boudewijn are planning a visit to the US in the
first week of July.  The Board supports that RIPE Centr & RIPE NCC
jointly go and explain the European situation and positions, so it is
clear that they understand the differences and how we are organised.