I am now able to circulate draft minutes of the RIPE 32 TLD WG. This draft is for comment until 10 October 1999. In default of comment by then, this draft will become the official record of the meeting. Special thanks to Hans Niklasson, who took the notes. Niall O'Reilly DRAFT Minutes RIPE 32 TLD WG 1. Administrivia 1.1 Scribe: Hans Niklasson 1.2 Agenda: as drafted 2. Matters arising from RIPE 31 TLD-WG meeting 2.1 adoption of minutes RIPE 29 Only a summary was available. Wilfred Woeber proposed adoption of this as formal record; Mike Norris seconded. 2.2 adoption of minutes RIPE 30 Adoption of the minutes was proposed by Fay Howard 2.3 adoption of minutes RIPE 31 Adoption of the minutes was proposed by Daniel Karrenberg, seconded by Eva Froelich 2.3 review of action list TLD-31-1: Niall O'Reilly Finalise the minutes from the RIPE 29 meeting Completed (2.1 above) TLD-31-2: Niall O'Reilly Finalise the minutes from the RIPE 30 meeting Completed (2.2 above) TLD-31-3: Niall O'Reilly Obtain information on status of referral mechanism. Completed (4 below) 3. Review Workplan The group's workplan was found to need reorganisation, with merging if some sections. Chair agreed to prepare new draft for next meeting (Action: TLD-32.1). Activity relevant to the following particular work areas was noted. TLD Coordination Project Activity CENTR was expected to contines this as the successor to the RIPE CENTR project. Documentation and alignment of practices NIC-FR had developed a directory system. Philippe Renaud offered to demonstrate this at RIPE 33 (Action: TLD-32.4). DNS Infrastructure Resources DNS-WG was reported to be working on BCP document. Explicit reference to liaison with DNS-WG was needed in Workplan. DNSsec was expected in next version of BIND. Daniel Karrenberg offered to invite ISC presentation at next meeting if interest was sufficient. Chair undertook to make soundings on list (Action: TLD-32.2). 4. Whois referral feature Joao Luis Silva Damas gave a report on the database referral feature for domain names. Two ways to go, either leave it the way it is or another way to display. Four registries were believed to be using the RIPE whois and database code. Chair undertook to obtain firmer information (Action: TLD-32.3). It was agreed that the current implementation was just what was needed. 5. RIPE-CENTR Progress Fay Howard gave a report on current status of the RIPE CENTR Project. The creation of an independent CENTR organisation was under way, with an Executive Committee elected and incorporation expected shortly. This would allow the RIPE CENTR project to come to an end by 30 June 1999. 6. ICANN/DNSO Update Fay Howard reported developments to date in shaping of ICANN's Domain Names Supporting Organisation (DNSO), and described CENTR's position in this regard. CENTR was supporting ICANN, and was concerned to have continuity for ccTLD's and formalization of relationship between ccTLD's and ICANN. CENTR was participating in initative to form DNSO. A number of draft DNSO definitions had been proposed, including a draft from Ireland which had broad support from CENTR, but no consensus had yet emerged. Negotiations were continuing, most recently at and around a public meeting in Washington on 22 January and a closed meeting the day before. Negotiations were expected to continue in the near future, with ICANN pressing for conclusion by 5 February to allow a one-month notice period in advance of the Singapore ICANN meeting early in March. It was hoped to find ways for TLD-WG and CENTR to work together after resolution of the ICANN/DNSO issues and to maintain liason until then. 7. AOB Mike Norris suggested that it was timely to review the cocument RIPE-152, especially with regard to TLD registries, and agreed to co-ordinate this activity (Action: TLD-32.5). 8. Conclusions 8.1 revisit workplan priorities 8.2 summarize action list TLD-32.1 [Chair] Update Workplan TLD-32.2 [Chair] Determine DNS-SEC plans and need for support from DNS-WG TLD-32.3 [Chair] Advise DB-WG of number of registries planning to use RIPE whois code TLD-32.4 [Philippe Renaut] Present NIC-FR directory work at Vienna TLD-32.5 [Mike Norris] Co-ordinate review of RIPE-152 -- End -- -------- Logged at Fri Sep 24 12:11:36 CEST 1999 ---------