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Update:22 September 2016 07December2016, 15:30 UTC

 

Administrative Items

 

RSSAC Meetings

Ongoing

The most recent RSSAC teleconference was on 01 September December 2016.

Open Action Items from Previous Teleconference(s)

  • Staff to publish the minutes from the 4 August 2016 teleconference.
  • Staff to send the published minutes from 4 August 2016 to the RSSAC Caucus.
  • Staff to organize an online vote to publish the RSSAC Statement Concerning The Impact of the Unavailability of a Single Root Server after September 8.
  • Staff to send the Key Technical Elements of Potential Root Operators document to the RSSAC Caucus on September 6.
  • Staff to organize two RSSAC Caucus meetings on the Key Technical Elements of Potential Root Operators document for September 15th and September 22nd.
  • Kathy Schnitt to send an email to RSSAC members with hotel and other information on the October 2016 RSSAC Workshop.
  • Staff to organize an online vote on the Statement of Work and Scope for Best Practices for the Distribution of Anycast Instances of the Root Name Service document after September 8.
  • Andrew McConachie to gather input from John Crain, Elise Gerich, Lars-Johan Liman, Russ Mundy, Wes Hardaker and Tripti Sinha. Then continue working on developing a naming and numbering scheme for the RSSAC.
  • RSSAC co-chairs to discuss the Board Advice Registry during the September advisory committee and supporting organizations chairs meeting with the ICANN CEO.

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      The next RSSAC meeting will be
    • 06 October 2016
    • January 2017

    Agenda Items:

     

     

     

    RSSAC Caucus Meetings

    Ongoing

    Last Caucus Meeting was on 17 July 06 November 2016 at IETF 96 ICANN 57 in BerlinHyderabad, Germany.India

     

    RSSAC at ICANN Meetings

    Ongoing

    The most recent RSSAC Meeting at ICANN was on 30 June 04 November 2016 in HelsinkiHyderabad, Finland.India

    Action Items:

      Kathy Schnitt
    • Staff to publish
    • the
    • minutes from the
    • 2 June 2016 teleconference.
    • 06 October 2016 Teleconference
    • Staff
    • Steve Sheng
    • to send the published minutes from
    • 2 June
    • the 06 October 2016 to the RSSAC Caucus
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    • Carlos Reyes
    • Staff to publish
    • RSSAC000v2 on the RSSAC publications website.
    • Carlos Reyes to share a link to RSSAC000v2 with the RSSAC Caucus.
    • ICANN staff to email the document in the name of the co-chairs to the public comments inbox.
    • Carlos Reyes to publish the statement on Client Side Reliability of Root DNS data to the RSSAC publications site.
    • Carlos Reyes to share a link to the statement on Client Side Reliability of Root DNS data with the RSSAC Caucus.
    • Carlos Reyes to send materials on CSC liaison position to the RSSAC list.
    • Carlos Reyes to send John Bond's slides on the RSN work party to the RSSAC mailing list. Carlos Reyes to reaffirm that these are not to be shared outside of RSSAC at this time.
    • Steve Sheng to send the Anycast Instances SOW to the RSSAC list for comments.
    • Carlos Reyes to send board job description to RSSAC mailing list.
    • the History of the Root Server System document
    • Staff to publish the Key Technical Elements of Potential Root Server Operators document
    • Staff to publish the October 2016 Workshop Report document

      ICANN 58 will be from March 11-16 20167 in Copenhagen, DenmarkICANN 57 will be from November 03-10 2016 in Hyderabad, India

     

    RSSAC Travel Support

    Ongoing

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

    Travel Support requests for ICANN57 have been processed.ICANN58 are in the process

     

    RSSAC Workshop 2016Open

    TBD

     

    October 11-13, 2016 | University of Maryland, College Park, MD

    Planning underway. Support staff finalizing logistics. Planning Committee finalizing agenda.

     

    Public Comments/Input

    Closed

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

    FY17 Draft Operating Plan and Budget: https://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-op-budget-fy17-five-year-05mar16/msg00000.html

    CCWG-Principles: Carlos Reyes drafting RSSAC Co-Chairs response to CCWG-Principles Co-Chairs.

    Draft New ICANN Bylaws: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-new-bylaws-2016-04-21-en

     

    CCWG Proposal on Enhancing ICANN AccountabilityOngoing

    CLOSED: RSSAC submitted comments on 9 January 2015 and follow-up discussions ensued on proposed ICANN bylaws changes. RSSAC also submitted a congratulatory statement to ICG via Liman on 10 March 2016.

     

    Work Parties/Committees

     

    Membership Committee

    Ongoing

    Kaveh Ranjbar announced his intent to step down at ICANN55. Matt Weinberg will replace Kaveh. Jim Martin will remain on the Membership Committee (It is not required to be an RSSAC member to serve on the Membership Committee.)

     

    Root Server System Naming SchemeOngoing

    Shepherd: Suzanne Woolf

    Leader: John Bond

    Work Party held a meeting at IETF95. John Bond has replaced Joe Abley as work party leader. Work continues.

     
    Anycast InstancesNew

    Steve Sheng sent the updated statement of work for review by Daniel Karrenberg on 3/15/2016.

    ACTION ITEM: Daniel K to review and revise the updated statement of work.

     
    History of Root Server SystemOngoing

    3/16/2016: The caucus review has finished. The RSSAC shepherd group will revise the document.

    ACTION: Tripti to incorporate Ashley's input and revise the document.

     
    RSSAC002 v3OngoingThe work party working on v3 of RSSAC002 continues to have meetings. On track for delivery by 1 June 2016 to the RSSAC. 

    Publications

    RSSAC000 v2

    Ongoing

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

    RSSAC001 v1Closed

    RSSAC001 has been 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

    RSSAC002 v2

    Closed


    Ongoing

    RSSAC002v2 has been approved by RSSAC and available at: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-002-measurements-root-07jan16-en.pdf

    Deployment of statistics is being tracked and updated as of Q3 2016.

    RSSAC003 v1OpenIANA is studying the advice and to make a recommendation to ICANN Board.

    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.