RIPE Chair report October 2014

I would like to share with you what I have been doing as RIPE Chair 
since the last RIPE meeting in Warsaw in may now that the RIPE 69 
meeting in London is just some days away.

The agenda for the RIPE meeting as been published at 
https://ripe69.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/
The Program committee has done a very good job in putting together a 
program for the week, all working-groups have published their agendas, 
and most working-groups have started working on wg-chair procedures as 
agreed at the last wg-chairs meeting.

The working-group chairs will meet as usual for lunch on Thursday. The 
agenda for this meeting can be found at
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/cc/agenda/ripe-69-working-group-chair-meeting-agenda


As RIPE Chair I am invited as an observer to the RIPE NCC exec board 
meetings in order to coordinate activities between RIPE and the RIPE 
NCC. There have been board meetings in June and September and minutes of 
the meetings are posted at 
http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/executive-board/minutes/2014

The theme of my first half-year as Chair, and before that as Deputy 
Chair, has been to get to know the community better, trough 
participating in regional meetings.

  * MENOG 14 in Dubai, UAE
  * SEE 3 in Sofia, Bulgaria
  * ENOG 7, Moscow, Russia
  * ENOG 8, Baku, Kazakhstan

These meetings have given me a better view of the current issues in our 
region. While we in Western and Northern Europe have a multitude of 
Internet exchanges to improve regional and national connectivity, there 
are challenges in the Middle East and further east. International 
connectivity is also a challenge - limited by available international 
fibber, and with higher cost than in areas with more competition between 
fibber providers. Privacy issues were high on the agenda at ENOG. There 
was a lively discussion on how to deal with government request. It is 
great to see the participation of these meetings, both in numbers and in 
content. The technical discussions in the meeting and the corridors, to 
exchange ideas and solve problems.

The RIPE NCC also does outreach to governments in our region. I 
participated at the High-level meeting in Brussels the RIPE NCC arranged 
in close cooperation with CENTR, as well as a Law enforcement meeting 
earlier this year in London.

During the summer I went to Toronto Canada for IETF 90, my primary 
interest was the discussions on the IANA transition. In addition I 
attended most of the Operational track.

The NRO Number Council appointed me to the ICANN NomCom for 2014 and we 
completed our work and appointed ICANN board members as well as ALAC, 
GNSO and ccNSO council members.

The report from the 2014 NomCom can be found at 
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-16oct14-en.pdf
the was also an urgent appointment of a board member to replace xxx who 
stepped down unexpectedly during the ICANN week. I was not able to 
participate in this appointment due to less than 24 hours notice for the 
meeting.

The NomCom also conducted a peer review of our contributions to the 
committee. The report from this has been published
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/360-review-members-15oct14-en.pdf


The Number Council was kind enough to reappoint me to the 2014 Non-com, 
which started its work with a two day meeting following the ICANN 
meeting in Los Angeles. The call for nominations will be out shortly. 
This year the NomCom will be appointing 3 board members. Looking at the 
board composition there is particular need for board members from the 
African region and the Latin American region, but good candidates from 
Europe are also welcome.

The NRO NC will in addition to the NomCom appointments, appoint one 
board member, see the announcement at 
https://www.nro.net/news/aso-ac-call-for-nominations-for-seat-9-on-the-icannboard 



In order to better understand the Internet Governance issues in a 
broader sense I have participated in

  * Annual meeting with the Norwegian regulator, Lillesand, Norway
  * EuroDig, Berlin Germany
  * IGF2014, Istanbul, Turkey

My interest in Eurodig and IGF was the NTIA transition of the IANA 
function. ICANN had a strong presence at IGF and there were several good 
discussions on how ICANN accountability can be improved.

  * ITU Plenipotentiary 2014 in Busan, Korea.

The Norwegian Ministry of Transportation and Communication invited me to 
participate on the Norwegian delegation at the ITU Plenipotentiary 2014 
conference in Busan, with the trip funded by the RIPE NCC. The RIPE NCC 
is a sector member of the ITU-D and participating with its own 
delegation with Chris, Maxim and Chadic.

There are excellent reports from the meeting by Samantha Dickinson 
athttp://linguasynaptica.com/ as well as live twitter updates, see 
  #Plenipot14

With this short report I hope I have given you some insight into what 
the RIPE Chair has been doing since the last meeting.

Sincerely,
Hans Petter Holen
RIPE Chair



# The above text has also been posted at 
_http://blog.hph.oslo.net/2014/10/ripe-chair-report-october-2014.html_

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