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RSSAC Meetings

Ongoing

The most recent RSSAC meeting was on 3 December 2015.

Open Action Items from Previous Teleconference(s)

• Carlos Reyes to distribute an updated proposal for the RSSAC schedule at ICANN Meetings A, B, and C for 2016. 
• Kathy Schnitt and Carlos Reyes to work on transcripts and notes from the Caucus meeting at IETF94.
• Lars-Johan Liman and Tripti Sinha to draft RSSAC’s input to the CCWG-Accountability third proposal for RSSAC discussion.
• Elise Gerich to make a recommendation to the ICANN Board of Directors for implementing RSSAC003.Suresh Krishnaswamy and Andrew McConachie to submit a statement of interest to the Membership Committee for joining the Caucus mailing list.

Action Items from This Meeting

• Lars-Johan Liman and Steve Sheng to incorporate edits to the Workshop 2015 report and re-circulate draft to the RSSAC.
• Suzanne Woolf to follow-up with Root Servers Naming Scheme Work Party leader on status of its document.
• Carlos Reyes to follow-up with Elise Gerich on RSSAC003 implementation recommendations.
• Steve Sheng to track the status of the Root Server System history document.Kevin Jones and Carlos Reyes to track input for RSSAC000 revisions.
• Steve Sheng to invite Karen Lentz to the next RSSAC teleconference to brief the RSSAC about the Continuous Data-driven Analysis of Root Server System Stability study plan.
• Kathy Schnitt to draft a calendar of RSSAC teleconferences and meetings for 2016.

Next meeting is on 7 January 2015.

RSSAC Caucus Meetings

Ongoing

Last Caucus Meeting was on 1 November 2015 (at IETF94). Minutes and notes will be posted soon.

RSSAC at ICANN Meetings

Ongoing

ICANN55 will be 5-10 March 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco. Kathy Schnitt and Carlos Reyes have requested sessions and rooms.

RSSAC Travel Support

Ongoing

For FY16, RSSAC has 5 slots (2 co-chairs and 3 RSSAC members).

Travel support requests for ICANN55 are being processed: Travel requests have been processed for 4 supported travelers; 2 requests for 1 slot remain for processing.

RSSAC Workshop 2015

Ongoing

Post-Workshop teleconferences being scheduled and public report being drafted.

Public Comments/Input

CCWG Proposal on Enhancing ICANN Accountability: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-ccwg-accountability-proposal-2015-11-30-en

Continuous Data-Driven Analysis of Root Server System Stability: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/cdar-study-plan-2015-12-02-en

Work Parties/Committees

Membership Committee

Ongoing

Members: Paul Vixie, Jim Martin, and Kaveh Ranjbar.

Shepherd: Suzanne Woolf

Leader: Joe Abley

Deadline for draft submission (20 November) has passed.

Publications

RSSAC000RSSAC000v2

Open

Kevin Jones is leading an effort to revise the RSSAC operational procedures. Carlos Reyes is providing staff support.

RSSAC001 is approved by RSSAC and available at: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-001-draft-20nov14-en.pdf.

RFC7720 has been published as well: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7720

Possible Work Items Pending RSSAC discussion / resource availability

Proposed at the RSSAC Caucus Meeting on 22 March 2015.

      - Test bed for RSSAC001/RFC2870" compliance. Action Item: Lars-Johan Liman to ask DNS-OARC about public compliance of a test bed for RSSAC001/RFC2870bis.

      - Expand DITL to better see trends and avoid spikes. Action Item: Lars-Johan Liman to ask DNS-OARC about expanding DITL to better see trends and avoid spikes. 

      - Finding metrics deciding where to deploy anycast instances. (Incl: how to define "underserved area"). Action Item: RSSAC to explore the need draft work statement for a work party (after the Workshop) on finding metrics to decide where to deploy anycast instances and how to define 'underserved area'.