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Update: 14December 2016 10:30 EST

Administrative Items

RSSAC Meetings

Ongoing

Last The most recent RSSAC Meeting teleconference was on 6 August 201501 December 2016.

Open Action Items from Previous Teleconferences

• • • Lars-Johan Liman to ask the Caucus to verify and assess whether or not root server operator deployments of statistics fulfill RSSAC 002 recommendations. (OPEN)

Action Items from ICANN53

• • • Lars-Johan Liman to ask DNS-OARC about public compliance of a test bed for RSSAC001/RFC2870bis. (OPEN)
    • Lars-Johan Liman to ask DNS-OARC about expanding DITL to better see trends and avoid spikes. (OPEN)
    • RSSAC to explore the need for a work party (after the Workshop) on finding metrics to decide where to deploy anycast instances and how to define 'underserved area'. (DEFERRED)
    • RSSAC Support Staff to track issues for consideration in review of RSSAC000. (ONGOING)

Action Items from 9 July 2015 Teleconference

• • • Jim Martin to draft a work statement for the RSSAC002 Work Party to investigate the issue of TCP/UDP counter misalignment with RSSAC002. (OPEN)

Action Items from 6 August 2015 Teleconference

• • • Carlos Reyes to publish the minutes from the 4 June and 9 July teleconferences. (DONE)
    • Carlos Reyes to notify the Caucus applicants, subscribe them to the mailing list, notify the Caucus, and update the Caucus webpage. (DONE)
    • Steve Sheng to send both the redline and clean versions of the Root Zone TTLs Work Party report to the RSSAC. (DONE)
    • Kathy Schnitt to schedule the first root-servers.net Work Party teleconference. (DONE)
    • Daniel Karrenberg, Russ Mundy, and Suzanne Woolf to closely review the CCWG-Accountability second draft proposal and, if necessary, draft an RSSAC response. (DONE)
    • Suzanne Woolf will draft a potential statement on the ICG consolidated proposal on behalf of the RSSAC. (DONE)
    • Tripti Sinha to solicit candidate volunteers from the Caucus for the RSSAC Liaison to the Nominating Committee role. (DONE)

Next meeting is on 3 September 2015.

RSSAC Caucus Meetings

Ongoing

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:

RSSAC Caucus Meetings

Ongoing

Last Caucus Meeting was on 06 November 2016 at ICANN 57 in Hyderabad, India. The next RSSAC Caucus Meeting is in Chicago, IL at IETF.

RSSAC at ICANN Meetings

Ongoing

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 at ICANN Meetings

Ongoing

RSSAC Travel Support

Ongoing

For FY16FY17, RSSAC has 5 6 slots (2 co-chairs and 3 4 RSSAC members) for ICANN meetings.

Travel support requests for ICANN54 have been processed.

FY16 Special Budget Requests

Pending

RSSAC received funding to support 2 travelers to IETF94 in November 2015 and 2 travelers to IETF95 in April 2015.

Travel support request process to resemble ICANN meeting request Support requests for ICANN58 are in the process.

Ongoing

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

Public Comments/Input

N/A

CWG Proposal For IANA Stewardship Transition

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-enComment 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

Members: Paul Vixie, Tripti Sinha, and Kaveh Ranjbar.

Action Items: Tripti to follow up on the SOI of Karl Reuss. (OPEN)

RSSAC 001

Ongoing

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. (OPEN)

Root Zone TTL

Ongoing

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. The Caucus has reviewed the draft. The draft will be sent to the RSSAC soon for consideration.

Remember to send copy to SSAC when done, or possibly for review before publishing. [LJL]

Evolution of Root Server System

Ongoing

The RSSAC will discuss this at its upcoming workshop. To prepare for the workshop, background documents may 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. (ONGOING)

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

Ongoing

Implementation

RSSAC 001 Implementation

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

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.

RSSAC 002 Implementation

Possible Work Items Pending RSSAC discussion / resource availability

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

      - Test bed for RSSAC-001RSSAC001/RFC2870" compliance. Action Item: Lars-Johan Liman to ask DNS-OARC about public compliance of a test bed for RSSAC001/RFC2870bis.

      - Writing easy - to-read, easy-to-find document about root servers. Incl. how to approach/reach the operators.Information already available at root-servers.net.

      - TCP/UDP counter not aligned in RSSAC-002. Action Item: RSSAC to explore the need for a work party to investigate issue of TCP/UDP counter misalignment with RSSAC002. 

      - 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 for a work party (after the Workshop) on finding metrics to decide where to deploy anycast instances and how to define 'underserved area'.

      - Including more parties in root service. Issue to be discussed at Workshop.

As Proposed on RSSAC Caucus Mailing Lists