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DateStatus InitiatedStatus Update

Update: 14December 2016 10:30 EST

Administrative Items

RSSAC Meetings

Ongoing

Last The most recent RSSAC Meeting teleconference was on May 07, 201501 December 2016.

Open Action Items

• • Carlos Reyes to draft the Board paper for appointing the new B-Root representation. [DONE]
  • Carlos Reyes to publish the approved revised draft minutes from 2 April 2015. [DONE]
  • Lars-Johan Liman and Wes Hardaker to revise the work statement for a potential work party on whether or not to DNSSEC sign the root-servers.net zone. [ONGOING]
  • Lars-Johan Liman to submit the revised work statement for a potential work party on whether or not to DNSSEC sign the root-servers.net zone to the RSSAC for an electronic vote. [ONGOING]
  • Steve Sheng to create a draft table to capture root server operator deployments of statistics recommended by RSSAC 002. [DONE]
  • Lars-Johan Liman to ask the Caucus to verify and assess whether or not root server operator deployments of statistics fulfill RSSAC 002 recommendations. [ONGOING]
  • Carlos Reyes to re-forward the request from the Finance and Project Management team for a meeting with RSSAC at ICANN 53. [DONE]
  • The RSSAC Co-Chairs and RSSAC Support Staff to draft an agenda for ICANN 53. [ONGOING]
  • Each root server operator to provide David Conrad with feedback on the MTU sizes in root server instances for UDP responses in IPv4 and IPv6. [ONGOING]
  • Carlos Reyes to work with Nominating Committee support staff to onboard Bill Manning. [DONE]

from Previous Teleconference(s)

• Staff to publish the minutes from the 4 November 2016 teleconference.
• Staff to send the published minutes from 4 November 2016 to the RSSAC Caucus.
• Staff to draft and submit a submission to the Board for the reelection of Tripti Sinha as an RSSAC co-chair.
• Staff and co-chairs to continue working on finding candidates for RSSAC endorsement for the 2nd Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS Review.
• Co-chairs to create and share a response to CCWG SO/AC accountability sub-group (CCWG-ACCT).
• Staff to send out a poll for RSSAC Workshop 4 dates.
• Staff to send an email to RSSAC with links and information on how to respond to current ICANN open public comment periods.

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  The next RSSAC meeting will be January 2017
  
  

Agenda Items:

 Next meeting is on June 09, 2015.

RSSAC Caucus Meetings

Ongoing

Last RSSAC Caucus Meeting was on 22 March 2015 (at IETF 92). Minutes and notes have been posted06 November 2016 at ICANN 57 in Hyderabad, India. The next RSSAC Caucus Meeting is in Chicago, IL at IETF.

RSSAC Mtgs at ICANN MtgsMeetings

Ongoing

ICANN 53 is in Buenos Aires, Argentina: 21-25 June. 

The most recent RSSAC Meeting at ICANN was on 04 November 2016 in Hyderabad, India

Action Items:

• Staff to publish minutes from the 06 October 2016 Teleconference (DONE)
• Staff to send the published minutes from the 06 October 2016 to the RSSAC Caucus (DONE)
• Staff to publish the History of the Root Server System document (DONE)
• Staff to publish the Key Technical Elements of Potential Root Server Operators document (DONE)
• Staff to publish the October 2016 Workshop Report document (DONE)
  
  ICANN 58 will be from March 11-16 20167 in Copenhagen, Denmark

RSSAC Travel Support

Ongoing

For FY15FY17, RSSAC requested has 6 slots (2 co-chair + 3 chairs and 4 RSSAC members travel to each ICANN meetings. UPDATE: This request has been granted and incorporated into the core budget.

Update: April 29: Marc Blanchet reached out to Steve and Carlos asking whether there is funding for IAB liaison to RSSAC to travel to ICANN meetings. How should we respond? [Liman and Tripti to discuss]

FY16 Special Budget Requests

) for ICANN meetings.

Travel Support requests for ICANN58 are in the process.

THE date for the 2016 RSSAC Workshop will be on May 2,3,4 in Reston, VA.

RSSAC 2015 Workshop

Teleconference on 07 July 2015 at 9:00/EDT - Draft agenda created and will be discussed on next RSSAC Teleconference 09 June 2015

Public Comments/Input

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

CWG Proposal For IANA Stewardship Transition

Comment period has ended

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

2015 Caucus membership committee are: Paul Vixie, Tripti Sinha, and Kaveh Ranjbar. Staff support: Carlos Reyes.

Action Items: Tripti to follow up on the SOI of Karl Reuss. [OPEN]

RSSAC 001

RSSAC001 is approved by SSAC and available at: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-001-draft-20nov14-en.pdf. It is waiting on draft-iab-2870bis-02 to be published together.  

Action Items Steve Sheng to work with Lars-Johan Liman on the publication of the IAB document.

Root Zone TTL

Work Party members: Duane Wessels (leader), Warren Kumari,

Jaap Akkerhuis, Shumon Huque, Brian Dickson, John Bond, Joe Abley,

Alejandro Acosta, Akira Kato and Matt Thomas. Staff Support: Steve Sheng.

The Work Party is meeting biweekly: None scheduled

Remember to send copy to SSAC when done, or possibly for review before publishing./Liman

Evolution of Root Server System

The RSSAC will focus this topic in its annual workshop. To prepare for the workshop, a background document to be produced on historical information about root server operational transitions.

Action Item: Lars-Johan Liman to encourage RSSAC members to send historical information about root server operational transitions to Steve Sheng. Also specify what additional historical information needs to be shared.

PROPOSED: Signing (or not) the root-servers.net zone

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.)

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.

12/14/2016 - The work party produced final reports

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.

12/14/2016: The document is published.

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.

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

6/6/2016 - The document is published. https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-002-measurements-root-06jun16-en.pdf

Publications

RSSAC000 v2

Ongoing

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

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

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.

Implementation Follow up

RSSAC 001 Implementation

Currently in holding pattern, waiting for RFC2870bis to be published.

RSSAC 002 Implementation

RSSAC002  Rec. 2: “RSSAC should monitor the progress of the implementation of these measures.”

Action Item: Steve Sheng to create a draft table to capture root server operator deployments of statistics recommended by RSSAC 002.

Possible Work Items Pending RSSAC discussion / resources resource availability

As Proposed at the RSSAC Caucus Kick Off Meeting on 22 March 2015:.

      - Test bed for RSSAC-001RSSAC001/RFC2870" compliance.

      - Writing easy-to-read, easy-to-find document about root servers. Incl. how to approach/reach the operators.

      - TCP/UDP counter not aligned in RSSAC-002.

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.

      - Finding metrics deciding where to deploy anycast instances. (Incl: how to define "underserved area").

      - Including more parties in root service.

As Proposed on RSSAC Caucus Mailing Lists

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