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Update: 14December 2016 10:30 EST

Administrative Items

RSSAC Meetings

Ongoing

The most recent RSSAC meeting teleconference was on 3 01 December 20152016.

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. 
• Elise Gerich to make a recommendation to the ICANN Board of Directors for implementing RSSAC003.

Action Items from This Meeting

• Suzanne Woolf to follow-up with Root Servers Naming Scheme Work Party leader on status of its document.

• 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 7 January 2015.

RSSAC Caucus Meetings

Ongoing

Last Caucus Meeting was on 1 06 November 2015 (at IETF94). Minutes and notes will be posted soon2016 at ICANN 57 in Hyderabad, India. The next RSSAC Caucus Meeting is in Chicago, IL at IETF.

RSSAC at ICANN Meetings

OngoingICANN55 will be 5-10 March 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco. Kathy Schnitt and Carlos Reyes have requested sessions and rooms.

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

Travel support requests for ICANN55: Travel requests have been processed for 4 supported travelers; 2 requests for 1 slot remain for processingSupport 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

Closed

Continuous Data-Driven Analysis of Root Server System StabilityCCWG Proposal on Enhancing ICANN Accountability: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draftcdar-ccwgstudy-accountabilityplan-proposal-2015-1112-3002-enContinuous Data-Driven Analysis of Root Server System Stability

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/cdardraft-studynew-planbylaws-20152016-1204-0221-en

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, Jim Martin, and Kaveh Ranjbar.

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 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

RSSAC000v2RSSAC000 v2

OpenOngoing

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

RSSAC001 is 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 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'.