I would like to share with you what I have been
doing as RIPE Chair since the last RIPE meeting in Warsaw in may
now that the RIPE 69 meeting in London is just some days away.
The agenda for the RIPE meeting as been published
at https://ripe69.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/
The Program committee has done a very good job in
putting together a program for the week, all working-groups have
published their agendas, and most working-groups have started
working on wg-chair procedures as agreed at the last wg-chairs
meeting.
The working-group chairs will meet as usual for
lunch on Thursday. The agenda for this meeting can be found at
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/cc/agenda/ripe-69-working-group-chair-meeting-agenda
As RIPE Chair I am invited as an observer to the
RIPE NCC exec board meetings in order to coordinate activities
between RIPE and the RIPE NCC. There have been board meetings in
June and September and minutes of the meetings are posted at http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/executive-board/minutes/2014
The theme of my first half-year as Chair, and
before that as Deputy Chair, has been to get to know the
community better, trough participating in regional meetings.
These
meetings have given me a better view of the current issues in
our region. While we in Western and Northern Europe have a
multitude of Internet exchanges to improve regional and national
connectivity, there are challenges in the Middle East and
further east. International connectivity is also a challenge -
limited by available international fibber, and with higher cost
than in areas with more competition between fibber providers.
Privacy issues were high on the agenda at ENOG. There was a
lively discussion on how to deal with government request. It is
great to see the participation of these meetings, both in
numbers and in content. The technical discussions in the meeting
and the corridors, to exchange ideas and solve problems.
The RIPE NCC also does outreach to governments in
our region. I participated at the High-level meeting in Brussels
the RIPE NCC arranged in close cooperation with CENTR, as well
as a Law enforcement meeting earlier this year in London.
During the summer I went to Toronto Canada for IETF
90, my primary interest was the discussions on the IANA
transition. In addition I attended most of the Operational
track.
The NRO Number Council appointed me to the ICANN
NomCom for 2014 and we completed our work and appointed ICANN
board members as well as ALAC, GNSO and ccNSO council members.
The report from the 2014 NomCom can be found at https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-16oct14-en.pdf
the was also an urgent appointment of a board
member to replace xxx who stepped down unexpectedly during the
ICANN week. I was not able to participate in this appointment
due to less than 24 hours notice for the meeting.
The NomCom also conducted a peer review of our
contributions to the committee. The report from this has been
published
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/360-review-members-15oct14-en.pdf
The Number Council was kind enough to reappoint me
to the 2014 Non-com, which started its work with a two day
meeting following the ICANN meeting in Los Angeles. The call for
nominations will be out shortly. This year the NomCom will be
appointing 3 board members. Looking at the board composition
there is particular need for board members from the African
region and the Latin American region, but good candidates from
Europe are also welcome.
The NRO NC will in addition to the NomCom
appointments, appoint one board member, see the announcement at https://www.nro.net/news/aso-ac-call-for-nominations-for-seat-9-on-the-icannboard
In order to better understand the Internet
Governance issues in a broader sense I have participated in
My
interest in Eurodig and IGF was the NTIA transition of the IANA
function. ICANN had a strong presence at IGF and there were
several good discussions on how ICANN accountability can be
improved.
The
Norwegian Ministry of Transportation and Communication invited
me to participate on the Norwegian delegation at the ITU
Plenipotentiary 2014 conference in Busan, with the trip funded
by the RIPE NCC. The RIPE NCC is a sector member of the ITU-D
and participating with its own delegation with Chris, Maxim and
Chadic.
There are excellent reports from the meeting by
Samantha Dickinson at http://linguasynaptica.com/ as well as
live twitter updates, see #Plenipot14
With this short report I hope I have given you some
insight into what the RIPE Chair has been doing since the last
meeting.
Sincerely,
Hans Petter Holen
RIPE Chair