RSSAC Work Tracking

Work

Status

Update: 14 December 2016 10:30 EST

Administrative Items

RSSAC Meetings

Ongoing

The most recent RSSAC teleconference was on 01 December 2016.

Open Action Items from Previous Teleconference(s)

• Staff to publish the minutes from the 4 November 2016 teleconference.
• Staff to send the published minutes from 4 November 2016 to the RSSAC Caucus.
• Staff to draft and submit a submission to the Board for the reelection of Tripti Sinha as an RSSAC co-chair.
• Staff and co-chairs to continue working on finding candidates for RSSAC endorsement for the 2nd Security, Stability and Resiliency of the DNS Review.
• Co-chairs to create and share a response to CCWG SO/AC accountability sub-group (CCWG-ACCT).
• Staff to send out a poll for RSSAC Workshop 4 dates.
• Staff to send an email to RSSAC with links and information on how to respond to current ICANN open public comment periods.

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  The next RSSAC meeting will be January 2017
  
  

Agenda Items:

RSSAC Caucus Meetings

Ongoing

Last Caucus Meeting was on 06 November 2016 at ICANN 57 in Hyderabad, India. The next RSSAC Caucus Meeting is in Chicago, IL at IETF.

RSSAC at ICANN Meetings

Ongoing

The most recent RSSAC Meeting at ICANN was on 04 November 2016 in Hyderabad, India

Action Items:

• Staff to publish minutes from the 06 October 2016 Teleconference (DONE)
• Staff to send the published minutes from the 06 October 2016 to the RSSAC Caucus (DONE)
• Staff to publish the History of the Root Server System document (DONE)
• Staff to publish the Key Technical Elements of Potential Root Server Operators document (DONE)
• Staff to publish the October 2016 Workshop Report document (DONE)
  
  ICANN 58 will be from March 11-16 20167 in Copenhagen, Denmark

RSSAC Travel Support

Ongoing

For FY17, RSSAC has 6 slots (2 co-chairs and 4 RSSAC members) for ICANN meetings.

Travel Support requests for ICANN58 are in the process.

THE date for the 2016 RSSAC Workshop will be on May 2,3,4 in Reston, VA.

Public Comments/Input

Closed

Continuous Data-Driven Analysis of Root Server System Stability: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/cdar-study-plan-2015-12-02-en

FY17 Draft Operating Plan and Budget: https://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-op-budget-fy17-five-year-05mar16/msg00000.html

CCWG-Principles: Carlos Reyes drafting RSSAC Co-Chairs response to CCWG-Principles Co-Chairs.

Draft New ICANN Bylaws: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/draft-new-bylaws-2016-04-21-en

CLOSED: RSSAC submitted comments on 9 January 2015 and follow-up discussions ensued on proposed ICANN bylaws changes. RSSAC also submitted a congratulatory statement to ICG via Liman on 10 March 2016.

Work Parties/Committees

Membership Committee

Ongoing

Kaveh Ranjbar announced his intent to step down at ICANN55. Matt Weinberg will replace Kaveh. Jim Martin will remain on the Membership Committee (It is not required to be an RSSAC member to serve on the Membership Committee.)

Shepherd: Suzanne Woolf

Leader: John Bond

Work Party held a meeting at IETF95. John Bond has replaced Joe Abley as work party leader. Work continues.

12/14/2016 - The work party produced final reports

Steve Sheng sent the updated statement of work for review by Daniel Karrenberg on 3/15/2016.

ACTION ITEM: Daniel K to review and revise the updated statement of work.

12/14/2016: The document is published.

3/16/2016: The caucus review has finished. The RSSAC shepherd group will revise the document.

ACTION: Tripti to incorporate Ashley's input and revise the document.

The work party working on v3 of RSSAC002 continues to have meetings. On track for delivery by 1 June 2016 to the RSSAC.

6/6/2016 - The document is published. https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-002-measurements-root-06jun16-en.pdf

Publications

RSSAC000 v2

Ongoing

Kevin Jones is leading an effort to revise the RSSAC operational procedures. Carlos Reyes is providing staff support.

RSSAC001 has been approved by RSSAC and available at: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-001-draft-20nov14-en.pdf.

RFC7720 has been published as well: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7720

Closed

Ongoing

RSSAC002v2 has been approved by RSSAC and available at: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-002-measurements-root-07jan16-en.pdf

Deployment of statistics is being tracked and updated as of Q3 2016.

Possible Work Items Pending RSSAC discussion / resource availability

Proposed at the RSSAC Caucus Meeting on 22 March 2015.

      - Test bed for RSSAC001/RFC2870" compliance. Action Item: Lars-Johan Liman to ask DNS-OARC about public compliance of a test bed for RSSAC001/RFC2870bis.

      - Expand DITL to better see trends and avoid spikes. Action Item: Lars-Johan Liman to ask DNS-OARC about expanding DITL to better see trends and avoid spikes.