RSSAC Work Tracking

Work	Status	Update: 22 September 2016, 15:30 UTC
Administrative Items
RSSAC Meetings	Ongoing	The most recent RSSAC teleconference was on 01 September 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. The next RSSAC meeting will be 06 October 2016 Agenda Items:
RSSAC Caucus Meetings	Ongoing	Last Caucus Meeting was on 17 July 2016 at IETF 96 in Berlin, Germany.
RSSAC at ICANN Meetings	Ongoing	The most recent RSSAC Meeting at ICANN was on 30 June 2016 in Helsinki, Finland. Action Items: Kathy Schnitt to publish the minutes from the 2 June 2016 teleconference. Steve Sheng to send the published minutes from 2 June 2016 to the RSSAC Caucus. Carlos Reyes 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. ICANN 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.
RSSAC Workshop 2016	Open	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 Accountability	Ongoing	~~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 Scheme	Ongoing	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 Instances	New	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 System	Ongoing	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 v3	Ongoing	The 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 v1	Closed	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 v1	Open	IANA 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.

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