Place: Edinburgh, Scotland
Date: 23 September 1998
Chair: Niall O'Reilly
Scribe: Lars-Johan Liman Attendance: 68 (including
representatives of 18 ccTLD Registries)
Adopted as the minutes of the RIPE 31 TLD-WG session at RIPE 32
1. Administrivia
1.1 Recognition of Scribe
Lars-Johan Liman was forced to volunteer as scribe. :-)
1.2 Agreement of Agenda
The agenda proposed by the chair was adopted with the following addition:
- The issue of k.root-servers.net was added to the "new IANA"
section.
2. Matters arising from RIPE 30 TLD-WG meeting
2.1 Adoption of Minutes from RIPE 29.
The minutes were not yet finalised. An action was put on the chair to
finalise them before the end of October.
2.2 Adoption of Minutes RIPE 30
The minutes were not yet finalised. An action was put on the chair to
finalise them before the end of October.
2.3 Review of Action List
The outgoing action list from the previous meeting was empty.
3. Review Workplan
The chair presented work that has been done in the area of the work plan.
Priority items have been taken on by CENTR, in particular TLD
coordination and Documentation and alignment of practices.
No new activities were added.
The chair reported that Boudewijn Nederkoorn (CENTR chair) and Harald
Alvestrand had been nominated to a WIPO expert panel.
4. Liaison with other Working Groups
DB-wg
With reference to the Stockholm meeting: TLD-wg requested from the DB-wg
that a referral feature be implemented. Is this done? The chair undertook to
follow up.
DNS-wg
There was general interest in seeing that the document on best practice be
finalised.
5. RIPE-CENTR Progress
Fay Howard, RIPE CENTR Project Officer, presented Policy Group and Project
activities.
The following is a brief summary of her presentation.
Independent CENTR organisation
European focus, members will be ccTLD registries
Large, medium, small levels of contribution
Assessment panel: SE, DK, IT
Other countries to submit proposals by 20 October
Report of assessors due 10 November
In action early 1999
Budget region 300 kECU
Project activities
Reported already in plenary by Mirjam Kuehne Technical
Workshop (Summer)
Administrative Workshop (September)
De-facto reference point for queries: need PR
CENTR Web site -- gateway to ccTLD sites
7. Any Other Business
At this point the meeting decided to jump to the agenta point AOB, since
there were people that had to leave
There were no AOB.
6. New IANA and Supporting Organisations
In the week before the meeting a fourth iteration of bylaws for nIANA was
issued and has received ciriticism from many stakeholders.
The IESG, RIPE NCC, CENTR, as well as a group of people related to the EC
meeting in Brussels in July have made public comments.
The gTLD-MOU policy oversight committee has put out a proposal for a domain
name supporting organisation as specified in the nIANA bylaws (See
http://www.dnso.org). A meeting is planned
for October 16-18 in Barcelona.
Daniel Karrenberg made an impromptu presentation describing the history
behind and current situation with nIANA. He summarized the details of nIANA as
follows:
- US based not for profit corporation.
- Board of directors:
- At large directors (9 persons)
- Supporting organisations (also 9):
- Domain Names supporting org (3)
- Protocol supporing org (3)
- Address supporing org (3)
- President/CEO.
Address Supporting Organisation: RIR's play big a role. RIPE NCC is one of
the orgs intrested in this.
Protocol Supporting Organisation: To handle protocols IDs, port numbers
etc. IETF is the percieved body in this organisation.
Domain Name Supporting Organisation: To handle domain names. There is no
general consensus.
Policies would be generated in the supporting organisations (SOs), through
open processes. Development of policy takes place in the SOs. SO sends proposal
to the board. Normally the board will approve or return with comments.
The intent with the "at large board members" is to look after
industry and individual users. The SO related board members will be appointed
by each SO on staggered terms.
Daniel Karrenberg presented RIPE NCC's statement on the fourth draft of the
bylaws. See http://www.ripe.net/info/ncc/comments-iana-draft.html.
A discussion about what to focus on took place, and included information
about the situation with k.root-servers.net, and the outcome was more or less
that the TLD-wg should keep its focus on securing a stable environment for root
name server operations.
8. Conclusions
It was concluded that there was no need to change the work plan.
The chair thanked all the participants, and meeting was closed.
Appendix: Action list
The action list as of the close of the meeting stands as follows:
Action TLD-31-1: Niall O'Reilly
Finalise the minutes from the RIPE 29 meeting before October 31, 1998.
Action TLD-31-2: Niall O'Reilly
Finalise the minutes from the RIPE 30 meeting before October 31, 1998.
Action TLD-31-3: Niall O'Reilly
Obtain information from DB-WG on status of referral mechanism.
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