RSSAC Work Tracking

Work

Status

Update: 19 May 2016, 13:00 UTC

Administrative Items

RSSAC Meetings

Ongoing

The most recent RSSAC teleconference was on 05 May 2016.

Open Action Items from Previous Teleconference(s)

• • Kathy Schnitt to publish the minutes from the 14 April 2016 teleconference. [DONE]
  • RSSAC members to read and send comments on the RSSAC Workshop 2 plan by 9 May. Steve Sheng will collect these comments and provide to RSSAC admin by night of 9 May EDT. [DONE]
  • The RSSAC Co-Chairs to draft a statement on harassment and code of conduct at ICANN meetings after receiving input from RSSAC members.[DONE]
  • RSSAC members to review the draft ICANN56 schedule and highlight any issues.
  • Kevin Jones to discuss latest RSSAC000 draft with the RSSAC Co-Chairs.
  • Tripti Sinha to revise the Root Server History Document.
  • Steve Sheng to work with Daniel Karrenberg, Matt Weinberg, and RSSAC Caucus members on drafting a statement of scope for a work party on anycast instances/underserved areas.
  • The RSSAC Co-Chairs to meet with every RSSAC member individually. Will begin reaching out and planning individual meetings soon.
  The next RSSAC meeting will be 02 June 2016

DRAFT Agenda Items:

RSSAC Caucus Meetings

Ongoing

Last Caucus Meeting was on 1 November 2015 (at IETF94). Next Caucus meeting is on 17 July 2016 at IETF 96 in Berlin, Germany.

RSSAC at ICANN Meetings

Ongoing

The most recent RSSAC Meeting at ICANN was on 8-9 March 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco.

Action Items:

• Carlos Reyes to work with the Membership Committee on a survey of caucus and Kaveh's transition.
• RSSAC Support staff to set up a calendar for the Caucus.
• Carlos to work with the Communications team on creating an infographic for the root server history document.
• Steve and Carlos to work with Suzanne on exploring why the Board still appoints RSSAC members/co-chairs (compared to GAC and ALAC)

• The RSSAC will ask the caucus to discuss and decide on: 1) how RSSAC and RSSAC Caucus should engage new comers, 2) expectations on how RSSAC should engage the caucus, 3) working practices of the caucus. 

• RSSAC co-chair to remind work party chairs to engage all work party members. 

• RSSAC to discuss how to better communicate with ICANN.  Some ideas include: 1) regularize RSSAC meeting with ICANN CTO at ICANN meetings, 2) RSSAC chairs to have a call with CTO ahead of ICANN meetings, 3) RSSAC support staff flag ICANN projects that might be interested to RSSAC, 4) ICANN and the community should be talking to RSSAC to engage in root server operators where responses from multiple root servers are needed, 5) ICANN should work with RSSAC to compile root server operators contact for emergency and security purposes, and 6) or a general contact for all the root server operators, 7) for operational issues concerning specific root server operators, ICANN should not contact RSSAC. 

• David Conrad to provide RSSAC with a one-two page description of the Board advice registry process. 

ICANN56 will be from June 27-30 2016 in Helsinki, Finland.

RSSAC Travel Support

Ongoing

For FY16, RSSAC has 5 slots (2 co-chairs and 3 RSSAC members) for ICANN meetings.

Travel Support requests for ICANN56 have been processed.

May 10-12, 2016 | Verisign Headquarters in Reston, VA

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

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.