RIPE 31 TLD-WG Draft Minutes Place: Edinburgh, Scotland Date: 23 September 1998 Chair: Niall O'Reilly Scribe: Lars-Johan Liman Attendance:68 (including representatives of 18 ccTLD Registries) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 1. At large directors (9 persons) 2. Supporting organisations (also 9): + Domain Names supporting org (3) + Protocol supporing org (3) + Address supporing org (3) 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------