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Update: 14December 2016 10:30 EST

Administrative Items

RSSAC Meetings

Ongoing

The most recent RSSAC meeting teleconference was on 12 November 201501 December 2016.

Open Action Items from Previous Teleconference(s)

• Staff Carlos Reyes to publish the minutes from the 1 October 2015 4 November 2016 teleconference. (DONE)
• Carlos Reyes to begin the ICANN55 travel support application and selection process.  (DONE)
• Carlos Reyes to distribute an updated proposal for the RSSAC schedule at ICANN Meetings A, B, and C for 2016. (ONGOING)
• Kathy Schnitt and Carlos Reyes to work on transcripts and notes from the Caucus meeting at IETF94. (ONGOING)
• Lars-Johan Liman and Tripti Sinha to coordinate RSSAC’s input with the CCWG-Accountability Co-Chairs. (OPEN)
• Carlos Reyes to notify the RSSAC when the CCWG-Accountability third draft proposal is published for public comment. (DONE)
• Lars-Johan Liman and Tripti Sinha to draft RSSAC’s input to the CCWG-Accountability third proposal for RSSAC discussion. (OPEN)
• Lars-Johan to circulate the current draft public report from Workshop 2015 to the participants. (DONE)
• Kathy Schnitt to coordinate the next Workshop Participants teleconference. (DONE)
• Steve Sheng will distribute the draft to the contributors for a final call, then the Caucus, and finally, the RSSAC. (DONE)
• Carlos Reyes to notify the two Caucus applicants, subscribe the applicants to the mailing list, notify the Caucus, and update the Caucus webpage. (DONE)
• Steve Sheng to prepare the reappointment paper for consideration by the ICANN Board of Directors. (DONE)
• Lars-Johan Liman to follow-up with Jari Arkko on the status of RFC2870bis. (OPEN)
• Duane Wessels to distribute a revised draft of edits to RSSAC002 to the Caucus. (DONE)
• Elise Gerich to make a recommendation to the ICANN Board of Directors for implementing RSSAC003. (OPEN)
• Kevin Jones to send an email to the RSSAC beginning the process of revising RSSAC000. (DONE)
• Suresh Krishnaswamy and Andrew McConachie to submit a statement of interest to the Membership Committee for joining the Caucus mailing list. (OPEN)
• Carlos Reyes to notify the RSSAC when the Root Stability Study methodology proposal is published for public comment. (DONE)

Next meeting is on 3 December 2015.

RSSAC Caucus Meetings

Ongoing

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

• 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 Support requests for ICANN55 are being processedICANN58 are in the process.

Ongoing

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

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

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-enRoot Stability Study

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

OngoingMembers: Paul Vixie, Tripti Sinha, and

Kaveh Ranjbar .

One applicant under consideration for 3 December 2015.

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 Deadline for draft submission (20 November) has passed.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

OpenOngoing

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.

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