ICANN ASO Meeting
Informal meeting to discuss general ASO agenda
Tuesday 12 September 2000 / RIPE 37
DRAFT MEETING NOTES

Chair: Hans Petter Holen
Scribe: Gerard Ross, APNIC

Start 17.30
What is global policy?
- - Discussion of what constitutes global policy and what ASO needs
to do, for example should it be  rewriting RFC-2050 and publishing it 
as ASO#1.
- - Another possible role to discuss is the question of reviewing and
aligning regional policies.

IPV6Policies
- - Discussion of the role ASO should play in IPV6 policy and
implementation.
- - WW gave background to the development and redevelopment of the
IPV6 allocation principles
- - WW said he sees no need for the ASO to get involved with this as
the process is going well. It would only be necessary if the regions 
all disagreed
- - HPH sees ASO role to make sure IPV6 policy is duly debated in the
regions and that IETF and IAB etc talk to RIRs.
- - Discussion that ASO has responsibility only if other process
breaks down
- - DK added that if 3 RIRs agree on something completely 
different to IETF then there may still be a need for ASO to step in.

Other issues

Should ac do anything to speed introduction for IPV6
- - DK said this is not within the terms of reference of the ASO.
- - Discussion that it is not the role of ASO to dictate 
business model of RIRs
- - HPH said it could be the ASO's role if the RIRs business model
(eg fees) unreasonably  influences the implementation of the policy.
- - WW said ASO not in business of favouring one technology over 
another. Very reluctant to interfere with RIR business model unless
significant complaint from community that access becomes greatly 
harder on region compared to others
- - HPH said perhaps ASO should help to present a more consistent
statistical picture of address consumption
- - Question raised as to the border between RIR/ICANN service
agreements and global policy.
- - HPH said  maybe ASO should produce annual report with useful
figures. DK urged caution about releases figures that have not been
comprehensively and accurately gathered.
- - There was a suggestion it would be OK to publish a preliminary
report properly labeled as such and that this would be a good basis 
for building future better annual reports. Creating such a report gives
community info needed for considering whether to start reclaiming 
address space.
- - WW stressed that only role of ASO is to document the situation
but decisions flowing from the statistics are the responsibility of 
the RIRs.

Emerging RIR
- - Generally agreed that this issue is global policy.
- - WW gave background. Said that the document is stable. Not
formally submitted to ICANN yet. Plan is to publish and call for 
comments.
- - HPH noted that although it is a not an issue in this 
matter, there needs to be a way of determining whether issues are actually 
global policy issues or not.

Miscellaneous
- - WW noted that communication within ASO has been improving and is
quite good. Reasonably good communications channel with ICANN is now 
in place. Currently no real open issue that requires attention.


Wrap up
- - Discussion that this format appears to be quite useful for
working through issues before taking matters to the plenary.
- - General feeling from floor that this sort of meeting is of value
for getting people with an interest and understanding of this area 
together.

Close 18.30