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Surveillance
by Gordon Lennox 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

I have been talking to various people about an event last week in Brussels. It was called DemoSec and was the joint final event for three EU-funded projects. Details of the event can be found here: DemoSec: Democracy and Security http://www.jointfinalevent2014.eu Details of each of the three projects can be found here: IRISS: Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies http://irissproject.eu RESPECT: Rules, Expectations & Security through Privacy-Enhanced Convenient Technologies http://respectproject.eu SURVEILLE: Surveillance: Ethical Issues, Legal Limitation, and Efficiency http://www.surveille.eu The information available is very variable between the projects. But RESPECT alone received €3492687 funding. So a significant amount of work. SURVEILLE has though made available a number of reports. Their paper on a "Terrorism Prevention Scenario" and the related paper on NSA may be of particular interest. See: http://www.surveille.eu/index.php/research/publications/ :-) Gordon

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Key Developments From ICANN 51
by Chris Buckridge 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Dear colleagues, The 51st ICANN meeting was held in Los Angeles, USA, from 11-16 October 2014, with questions surrounding the IANA stewardship transition and the accountability of ICANN driving much of the agenda. More information about key developments from the ICANN 51 meeting is available at: https://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/news/announcements/icann-51-cont… Regards, Chris Buckridge Senior External Relations Officer RIPE NCC

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Fwd: arin-announce IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal Survey and Mailing List
by Hans Petter Holen 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Hi, This was circulated on the ARIN list earlier this month. It may be of interest to us to know the thoughts of ARIN community members. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [arin-announce] IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal Survey and Mailing List Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:38:37 -0400 From: ARIN <info(a)arin.net> To: arin-announce(a)arin.net As a part of the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) system, the ARIN community has been called to contribute to the ongoing global multistakeholder discussion on the IANA Stewardship Transition. The feedback from the ARIN community will be part of the contribution provided by the Number Resource Organization (NRO) to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) in response to their recent "Request for Proposals (RFP) for ?IANA? Stewardship Transition Proposal?. ???" https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-09-03-en We would also like your opinion on number of specific points detailed in a short survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/IANA_stewardship This survey will be open from 13 October to 20 October 2014, and the results will be made available to the community on 24 October 2014. We have also created a public mailing list (iana-transition(a)arin.net) to facilitate open community discussion in the region regarding the IANA Stewardship Transition planning process. We encourage you to subscribe and participate in this dialog by visiting http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/iana-transition To learn more about this and other mailing lists hosted by ARIN, visit the Mailing List page: https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/ Regards, John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

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Request for clarification of the process
by Richard Hill 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

I refer to the message at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/cooperation-wg/2014-October/000620. html It says "The RIPE community asks the RIPE NCC to complete the [IANA transition] proposal and to submit it to the ICG before January 15th 2015." Does RIPE NCC refer to the staff of the RIR? That is, is the proposal going to be written by the staff and directly submitted to the ICG? Or is the proposal going to be submitted for discussion to this (or some other) mailing list? Please recall that the IANA transition process is supposed to involve the global multi-stakeholder community, and not just the RIPE community. Best, Richard

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Initial Draft: RIPE Community IANA Stewardship Proposal
by Chris Buckridge 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC, working closely with the Cooperation Working Group Co-chairs and the RIPE Chair, has produced the following draft RIPE community proposal regarding the IANA stewardship. This text should not be regarded as final - it is intended to act as a basis for discussions in this working group over the coming weeks. There will also be a dedicated session at RIPE 69 in London on Thursday, 6 November, to discuss these issues. Remote participation will be available for those unable to be present. Best regards, Chris Buckridge, RIPE NCC RIPE Community IANA Stewardship Proposal [DRAFT] ———————————————————————— The RIPE community asks the RIPE NCC to work with the other RIRs to produce a common proposal for a legally binding agreement (such as a Service Level Agreement) between ICANN and the RIRs to replace the Internet number-related elements of the ICANN-NTIA agreement. This proposal should meet the requirements of the Request For Proposals (RFP) produced by the IANA Stewardship Transistion Coordination Group (ICG). The proposal should bring the provisions of the agreement related to the services and service levels up-to-date with current requirements where necessary. This work should be coordinated with the other users of the IANA function as much as practical, with the aim of producing a proposed arrangement that is compatible with the proposed arrangements of the other IANA users. The RIPE community asks the RIPE NCC and the other RIRs keep it informed about progress and content of the proposal. The RIPE community asks the RIPE NCC to complete the proposal and to submit it to the ICG before January 15th 2015.

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Test
by Richard Hill 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

I seem not to have received some messages posted to this list, so I'm sending this as a test. Richard

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RIPE NCC and CENTR Hold Joint Meeting With Governments
by Chris Buckridge 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC and CENTR, the European country code top-level domain (TLD) organisation, held a meeting on Wednesday, 1 October 2014, in Brussels, Belgium, for governments and regulators to discuss issues of relevance to both the RIPE and CENTR communities. The meeting was part of the CENTR General Assembly and was held adjacent to a meeting of the European Commission High Level Group on Internet Governance, attracting approximately 100 representatives from governments, industry and the Internet technical community. Dominating the agenda was a discussion of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) oversight transition process that is currently ongoing. Paul Rendek, RIPE NCC Director of External Relations, participated in a panel with Nominet’s Martin Boyle and Afnic’s Mathieu Weill, chaired by Peter Vergote, Chairman of the CENTR Board of Directors. This panel addressed the discussion process currently underway in the RIPE and TLD communities regarding both the IANA stewardship and ICANN accountability. The RIPE NCC presentation described the relationship between the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and IANA, the model of regional Internet number policy development, efforts to document the RIRs’ accountability to their stakeholders, the discussion of IANA stewardship in the RIPE community, and some of the key principles that have emerged from that discussion. These principles include a preference for minimal operational change and to build on existing structures and processes to formalise the RIR communities’ role as stewards of global Internet number registration. The panel was followed by vibrant discussion, with many governments and other attendees contributing. Many expressed concern about the timeline leading up to the expiration of the current contract in September 2015, and the challenge of reaching an agreement on a proposal for future IANA oversight upon which all affected communities can agree. RIPE NCC Chief Scientist Daniel Karrenberg was among those who stressed the importance of early and effective communication between all parties to assure the best chance of a widely accepted outcome to the process. Several governments also suggested the possibility of a neutral third-party assuming the oversight role currently held by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Others noted that such an arrangement would be contrary to preferences already expressed in the RIR and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) communities. The meeting also included discussion of upcoming Internet governance events, particularly the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary 2014 (PP14). Chris Buckridge presented on the RIPE NCC's priorities going into this event, and the focus on providing expert technical advice to ITU Member States, particularly when discussions touch on issues such as IP address registration, allocation and policy-making. Presentation slides delivered by the RIPE NCC are available online: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/roundtable/october-2014/presentations Additional information on the IANA oversight transition is available at: https://www.ripe.net/iana-oversight-transition/ The next RIPE NCC Roundtable Meeting for Governments and Regulators will be held in early 2015, with details to be announced closer to the event itself. Best regards, Chris Buckridge Senior External Relations Officer, RIPE NCC

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Principles for a RIPE Proposal on IANA Oversight
by Chris Buckridge 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC is working closely with the Cooperation Working Group Co-chairs and members of the RIPE community to draft a proposal on the future oversight of the IANA functions. To assist in the process, we developed a straightforward set of principles based primarily on the discussions in this working group at RIPE 68 and on the working group’s mailing list. Feedback from the working group on the three areas listed below, on whether to express agreement or otherwise, and on any other related issues or questions is a vital part of this process. We would appreciate this feedback by the end of September. At the beginning of October, we plan to present a rough draft proposal to the working group for further discussion ahead of the RIPE 69 Meeting in London. Further background information, including a detailed overview of the NTIA IANA functions contract and a timeline for the five RIR community discussion processes, was recently published on the NRO website: https://www.nro.net/iana-oversight Best regards, Chris Buckridge RIPE NCC -------------- Background The Regional Internet Registry (RIR) communities have successful, long-established processes for making Internet number resource policy at the global and regional levels. These processes are defined as being open to all interested parties, transparent in their processes and operations, and driven by the community themselves in a “bottom-up” fashion via consensus-based decision-making processes. These processes operate at the regional level to create policies that address regional needs and interests. More rarely, they serve to create global policies regarding the top level of the Internet number registration hierarchy. These global policies are implemented by the IANA operator, a role currently fulfilled by ICANN. RIR policy development processes pre-date ICANN and the current NTIA IANA functions contract. The NTIA plays no explicit role in making or directing policy for the operation of those IANA functions relating to Internet number resources. The current processes and structures have resulted in excellent operation of the IANA functions relating to Internet number administration by ICANN, under policy direction from the RIR communities. 1. The following are priorities for the RIPE community: - There should be minimal operational change. The current processes for IANA operation and related policy-making are effective and allow for the participation of all interested parties. - Any new oversight mechanism should incorporate and build on the existing RIR community policy-making processes. - The RIR communities are ultimately accountable for the management of those IANA functions relating to management of the global Internet number resource pools, and this should be reflected in any new oversight mechanisms defined in a global proposal to NTIA. 2. A model for IANA oversight endorsed by the RIPE community should include the following elements: - ICANN has historically managed operation of the IANA functions well, and should continue to do so at this time. - The IANA functions operator must be answerable and accountable to the communities that it serves. The number resource community is represented in such accountability processes by the membership-based RIR organisations. - Funding arrangements to cover the staff, equipment and other operational costs associated with operation of the IANA functions should be transparent and stable. - Efforts should be made to maintain the IANA functions as a “bundle”, managed by a single operator. - This does not necessarily imply a single, central point of oversight authority. Any proposed oversight mechanism should reflect the legitimate authority of different communities for specific functions as they relate to number resources, domain names and protocol parameters. 3. RIPE community input to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG), which is responsible for developing a global proposal to NTIA, will be developed according to the following process: - Discussion in the RIPE community is centralised in the RIPE Cooperation Working Group. - The RIPE community discussion will aim to produce an output document by 1 December 2014. - The RIPE Cooperation Working Group Chairs will be responsible for assessing community consensus on this output document. - This RIPE output document will be sent to the Number Resource Organization Executive Council (made up of the five RIR CEOs), who will compile a single NRO input to the ICG. - A representative of the NRO Number Council will confirm that text compiled by the NRO EC accurately reflects the output of the five RIR community discussions. - The NRO proposal will be shared with the five RIR communities ahead of submission to the ICG. - Any global proposal produced by the ICG will be conveyed back to the RIPE community via the RIPE Cooperation Working Group to allow for discussion of any objections or concerns.

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IGF community impressions of the IGF
by Chris Buckridge 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC funded the participation of several RIPE community members at the recent Internet Governance Forum in Istanbul. We have now published an article on RIPE Labs, compiling brief interviews with three of those RIPE community participants on their experiences and thoughts on the event: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/chrisb/ripe-community-impressions-of-igf-2014 Best regards, Chris Buckridge, RIPE NCC

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Call for nominations: IGF MAG
by Chris Buckridge 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Dear colleagues, Please note the email forwarded below - volunteers from the technical community are being sought to participate in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG). The MAG develops the programme and schedule of the IGF, and includes 55 members from governments, the private sector, civil society, and the academic and technical communities. More information about the MAG is available at: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout Best regards, Chris Buckridge, RIPE NCC > From: Elizabeth Oluoch <oluoch(a)isoc.org> > Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 5:58 AM > > > Dear All, > > Under-Secretary-General of UNDESA, Mr. Wu Hongbo, has issued a public request for nominations for the 2015 Multistakeholder Advisory Group, which will advise the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the programme and schedule of the IGF 2015 meeting. The aim is to rotate one third of MAG members. > > The Internet Society (ISOC) is coordinating a process leading to recommendations of representatives of the Internet technical community for the renewal of the MAG. > > Individuals interested in being suggested by the NomCom set up for this purpose are invited to read more about the process and to fill in a submission template by 1 October: http://www.internetcollaboration.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/09/20… > > Any questions or requests for additional information can be sent to: information.itcg(a)gmail.com. > > Useful links: > IGF website: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/ > About the MAG:: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout > > Thank you and best regards, > > Elizabeth Oluoch > Public Policy Coordinator > Internet Society

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