Please submitt comments, additions & corrections to me. -hph ICANN ASO Meeting Informal meeting to discuss general ASO agenda Tuesday 12 September 2000 / RIPE 37 DRAFT MEETING NOTES Chair: Hans Petter Holen Scribe: Gerard Ross, APNIC Start 17.30 What is global policy? - Discussion of what constitutes global policy and what ASO needs to do, for example should it be rewriting RFC-2050 and publishing it as ASO#1. - Another possible role to discuss is the question of reviewing and aligning regional policies. IPV6Policies - Discussion of the role ASO should play in IPV6 policy and implementation. - WW - gave background to the development and redevelopment of the IPV6 allocation principles - WW said he sees no need for the ASO to get involved with this as the process is going well. It would only be necessary if the regions all disagreed - HPH sees ASO role to make sure IPV6 policy is duly debated in the regions and that IETF and IAB etc talk to RIRs. - Discussion that ASO has responsibility only if other process breaks down - DK added that if 3 RIRs agree on something completely different to IETF then there may still be a need for ASO to step in. Other issues Should ac do anything to speed introduction for IPV6 - DK said this is not within the terms of reference of the ASO. - Discussion that it is not the role of ASO to dictate business model of RIRs - HPH said it could be the ASO's role if the RIRs business model (eg fees) unreasonably influences the implementation of the policy. - WW said ASO not in business of favouring one technology over another. Very reluctant to interfere with RIR business model unless significant complaint from community that access becomes greatly harder on region compared to others - HPH said perhaps ASO should help to present a more consistent statistical picture of address consumption - Question raised as to the border between RIR/ICANN service agreements and global policy. - HPH said maybe ASO should produce annual report with useful figures. DK urged caution about releases figures that have not been comprehensively and accurately gathered. - There was a suggestion it would be OK to publish a preliminary report properly labeled as such and that this would be a good basis for building future better annual reports. Creating such a report gives community info needed for considering whether to start reclaiming address space. - WW stressed that only role of ASO is to document the situation but decisions flowing from the statistics are the responsibility of the RIRs. Emerging RIR - Generally agreed that this issue is global policy. - WW gave background. Said that the document is stable. Not formally submitted to ICANN yet. Plan is to publish and call for comments. - HPH noted that although it is a not an issue in this matter, there needs to be a way of determining whether issues are actually global policy issues or not. Miscellaneous - WW noted that communication within ASO has been improving and is quite good. Reasonably good communications channel with ICANN is now in place. Currently no real open issue that requires attention. Wrap up - Discussion that this format appears to be quite useful for working through issues before taking matters to the plenary. - General feeling from floor that this sort of meeting is of value for getting people with an interest and understanding of this area together. Close 18.30