[ipv6-wg] Report from ITU Study Group 20 meeting 3-13 December 2018 in Wuxi, China

Marco,

thank you very much for your work and your summary from ITU SG 20.

As I understood, there will be a new version of the draft. I would expect, 
that there will also be another chance for the RIPE community to comment.

> Unfortunately, the RIPE community’s feedback was only taken into
> consideration as a high-level conclusion that the current text does not meet
> the technical standards expected  [...]
How can we make sure, that the comments will not be interpreted by the ITU the 
same way again?

Regards,
Markus

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Von:		Marco Hogewoning <marcoh at ripe.net>
Datum:	Freitag, 14. Dezember 2018, 03:34:25
An:		ipv6-wg at ripe.net
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Betr.:	[ipv6-wg] Report from ITU Study Group 20 meeting 3-13 December 2018 in 
Wuxi, China

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> The meeting of ITU Study Group 20 in Wuxi, China, just finished and I’d like 
to give you a brief report on the discussions of the work on a draft 
Recommendation on IPv6 addressing.
> 
> This meeting was the group's first face-to-face meeting since our discussion 
of the draft Recommendation at RIPE 77 in May 2018 and the July 2018 draft 
review deadline.  The RIPE community's comments were brought to the meeting 
as a Liaison Statement. 
> 
> Several other parties also submitted their own Contributions, including the 
RIPE NCC in its role as an ITU Sector Member. The proposal in our 
Contribution, with reference to earlier discussions and your review, was to 
discontinue this particular Work Item. The United States Government and ARIN 
made Contributions along similar lines, seeking to stop the work developing 
this particular Recommendation. This position was also supported by the 
United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and several sector members.
> 
> I’d like to highlight that both in their Contribution and interventions, the 
US expressed their gratitude to the RIPE community for their extensive review 
and feedback on the draft Recommendation.
> 
> The main author of the draft submitted a Contribution with their account of 
our discussions at RIPE 77 and the review process, as well as a joint 
Contribution with the Beijing University for Post and Telecommunications 
providing a case study of an IPv6 address plan. 
> 
> Having taken all of these contributions and interventions into 
consideration, the focus of the meeting discussion was on whether or not the 
work should continue. Unfortunately, the RIPE community’s feedback was only 
taken into consideration as a high-level conclusion that the current text 
does not meet the technical standards expected, and the actual text of the 
draft was not reviewed or revised during this meeting.
> 
> Unable to reach consensus, the question of whether the work should continue 
was deferred upwards to the meeting of the Working Party and finally to the 
closing plenary. 
> 
> During the closing plenary, the Chairman of Study Group 20 proposed 
continuing the work for at least one more meeting on the premise that the 
draft’s main author would come back with a Contribution addressing the 
concerns raised with the current draft. He emphasised that the work item 
would be dropped unless there were contributions and agreement to advance the 
text at the next meeting. 
> 
> The RIPE NCC accepted the Chairman’s proposal as a constructive way forward. 
We look forward to the contributions at the next meeting with the expectation 
that they will address the concerns raised during your review.
> 
> We would like to thank you again for the constructive comments raised during 
the review process. We would also like thank the Question’s rapporteur, 
associate rapporteur and the Study Group’s management team for all their time 
and assistance, and of course all the member states and sector members that 
participated in this discussion.
> 
> The next meeting of Study Group 20 is scheduled to take place in mid-April, 
in Geneva, Switzerland.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marco Hogewoning
> RIPE NCC
> 

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Markus de Brün
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI)
Federal Office for Information Security, Germany
Mail: markus.debruen at bsi.bund.de