Dear lir-wg, At the meeting in Praha we briefly discussed how to contribute to the global effort to revise RFC 2050. We were informed that ARIN had set up a working group for this, with a mailing list. It was suggested that we might join the mailing list hosted by ARIN to participate in this work, thus forming a truly global effort on the matter. Ray Plzak the President of ARIN invited the RIPE community to do so. After positive reactions from the participants, and no voices against, the chair declared consensus on this matter. The details of the list is: * List Address: 2050-wg@arin.net * Subscription is open to all interested parties * List is archived More information about the list is available at: http://www.arin.net/members/mailing.htm The charter from ARINs announcement: "The objective of the RFC 2050 Working Group is to address the issues relating to relevance of RFC 2050 to the needs of today's Internet registry system. The group will evaluate RFC 2050 and propose a method of replacing it with a new document or documents. Once consensus has emerged on the process that will be used to replace RFC 2050, the working group will cooperatively develop its replacement. The working group will work in coordination with the other Regional Internet Registries, who will conduct a similar review process in their respective regions. " Hans Petter Holen WG Chair ARIN announcement: http://www.arin.net/mailinglists/arin-announce/0121.html From: Member Services (memsvcs@arin.net) Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 11:24:00 EDT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- At the last ARIN Open Policy meeting in San Francisco concerns were raised about RFC 2050. It was noted that this document has aged and that certain portions of it no longer reflected the current state of RIR policy and operations. Similar concerns have been raised in the APNIC and RIPE NCC regions. Accordingly, ARIN is establishing a working group to further examine this issue. Mark McFadden has volunteered to chair the 2050WG. The charter for the working group follows: The objective of the RFC 2050 Working Group is to address the issues relating to relevance of RFC 2050 to the needs of today's Internet registry system. The group will evaluate RFC 2050 and propose a method of replacing it with a new document or documents. Once consensus has emerged on the process that will be used to replace RFC 2050, the working group will cooperatively develop its replacement. The working group will work in coordination with the other Regional Internet Registries, who will conduct a similar review process in their respective regions. An email list for the 2050WG has been established. Subscription information can be found at the following URL: http://www.arin.net/members/mailing.htm All interested individuals are encouraged to participate in this discussion. This will be an agenda item at the next ARIN Open Policy meeting in Miami. Ray Plzak President