Topics for todays ICANN ASO workshop at 1700

Dear friends of RIPE;

I have asked for a timeslot on this RIPE meeting to have a more informal
Worksop style of environment were it is possible for those of you with
particular interest in the work going on in the ICANN ASO and in the Address
Council in particular. We will of course have a report from the AC in the
lir-wg (as usual) and maybe even at the RIPE plenary at the RIPE chairs
discretion.

My thoughts behind this particular format at this particular meeting is to
allow for the possibility of even more preparatory discussions in even more
details than we usually have time for. Ideally I would have liked the
meeting to happen later in the week, but not even the  magic of the RIPE NCC
meeting staff was enough for that to happen (we simply have to many
competing for the same slots).

The following rather broad topics lies on the Address Councils table, and
will be discussed by the AC, ICANN and the RIRs at a physical AC meeting in
Brisbane just after the APNIC meeting in October. This effort is thus an
attempt to seek advice from the community before these discussions to
satisfy the basic requirements for openness and transparency.

1) What is global policy ?

There are several dimensions to this discussion:
- replace RFC 2050 with a ICANN Address policy document
- what is the distinction between regional and global policy
- do we understand and appreciate the differences between the regional
policies ?
- differences between v4 and v6 with respect to the last item
- what's the role/work mode of the AC ? to make the definite address
policy, or to work on issues as they show up
- were is the border between a service level contract and policy issues.
- are there other operating guidelines for the ICANN - IANA than the
global addressing policy ?

2) Revising the MOU
In the widest sense: are there things in the present MOU that needs more
work and needs to be changed ?

3) Addressing the essence of the ad Hoc committee, i.e. discussing how to
best address new addressing needs emerging for

4) How to promote ipv6 ?

5) Emerging RIRs
How to enable and support the emerging RIRs to establish regional policy
processes ?

The discussions in just above an hour needs not be limited to these topics.

So, if you have a particular interest in influencing your AC members
thinking
on these or other matters, be there !

Sincerely,
Hans Petter Holen
Address Council Chair