IAOC Minutes 2012-04-19
IAOC Meeting
2012-04-19 14:00 UTC / 10:00 EDT
Bernard Aboba [PRESENT]
Bob Hinden [PRESENT, Chair]
Dave Crocker [PRESENT]
Lynn St. Amour [PRESENT]
Marshall Eubanks [PRESENT]
Ole Jacobsen [PRESENT]
Ray Pelletier [PRESENT, IAD]
Russ Housley [PRESENT]
Scott Bradner [PRESENT]
David Kessens [GUEST]
Mia McAuley [SCRIBE]
IAOC Agenda
1. Minutes
2012-03-28
2012-01-19
2. IANA SLA Action/Update
3. IT Update
Charter Milestone Management Development Clean Up
Agenda Scheduling RFP
Mail Archive RFI Results
YTD Status
Infrastructure Study - Dave
4. Meetings Update
Paris Update
Paris Survey
2015 Update
5. Bits and Bites Update
6. Retreat Agenda
7. AOB
1. Minutes
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The following minutes are ready for approval: 2012-03-28,
with modifications as proposed on the list. Marshall moves
adoption of the minutes as modified, Bob seconds. Without
objections the minutes were adopted. Karen plans to submit
the January minutes soon.
2. IANA SLA Action/Update
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Dave made two suggestions on the list re: the proposed 2012
IANA SLA regarding the Escalation Clause specifically that
the 7 days is too generous just for forwarding a request,
and that, allowing for a long weekend, 3 business days
should work; and, secondly, that notifications to Designated
Experts should be sent Return Receipt.
IANA responded that the 7-calendar day goal would
incorporate a 3-day weekend and would also allow any
investigation work by IANA required/needed before sending to
the expert, but that it is possible that 5 calendar days
could work. Their software does not support the use of
business days.
As to the second suggestion IANA responded that their
ticketing system does not support the use of "message
disposition notification -- MDN" return receipt at this time.
They will look into the possibility of adding it as a feature
in a future upgrade.
RESOLUTION
Russ moved adoption of the 2012 SLA with the change to 5
calendar days from 7-calendar days. Marshall seconded. A
roll call was taken.
Bernard [YES]
Bob [YES]
Dave [YES]
Lynn [YES]
Marshall [YES]
Ole [YES]
Russ [YES]
Scott [YES]
The motion passed unanimously.
Bernard suggested having a page consolidating IANA
information on the IETF website. There was general
agreement to take the details of what should be included to
the list and for Bernard to work with the Secretariat over
hammering out details as well.
3. IT Update
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a. Charter Milestone Management Development Clean Up
Ray reported that IOLA is developing the Charter Milestone
Management Tool for
per IAOC approval 1 December 2011. During the course of that
development IOLA encountered issues that require clean up,
specifically old code paths, which requires some rewrite,
porting and fixing a couple of issues. The cost of this work
would not exceed . The
project falls within IT Capital Investment 2012 Budget and is
recommended by the Tools Management Committee.
RESOLUTION
The IAOC approves IOLA to perform the Charter Milestone
Management Development Clean Up at a cost of
confidential> and requests the
Internet Society to enter into a Work Order to effect the
development of the project.
Russ moved and Marshall seconded the motion. A roll call
was taken:
Bernard [YES]
Bob [YES]
Dave [YES]
Lynn [YES]
Marshall [YES]
Ole [YES]
Russ [YES]
Scott [YES]
The motion passed unanimously.
b. Agenda Scheduling Tool Next Steps
Ray reported that there were no responses to the RFI. The
TMC has discussed the matter with the Tools Development
Committee and concluded the SOW needs to be modified to
attract the right vendors to the task. The plan is that the
TMC will return with an updated SOW
Bob added that there was discussion into splitting the work
up into 2 parts: one being a schedule service that allows one
to modify it like a virtual spreadsheet, the other would be
an actual schedule tool algorithm. There are plans to have
discussions with scheduling vendors to learn more. The RFI
proved useful as a learning experience. No one will bid on
this in its current form. The approach used in the past did
not work as desired so to move forward it will have to be
first decided in which modified approach.
c. Mail Archive RFI Results
Ray reported that the TMC received 1 reply, which was
responsive to the RFI. The TMC, after discussions with the
Tools Committee, desires to modify the SOW to include IMAP.
After modification, the TMC will request the authorization
of the IAOC to issue an RFP.
Russ elaborated on what it means to include IMAP. The RFI
response described an approach to solving the problem that
would create mail list files that would be in use by an IMAP
server. It's been suggested making an optional part of bid
to be inclusion of IMAP server that would give anonymous
access to those IMAP servers so that one would be able to
point to one's IMAP server. The different servers available
are being looked into.
d. Tools Year-To-Date Status
Ray reported that the 2012 tools development Budget is $215k.
Year-to-date 4 projects have been completed totaling $71k
and that there are 6 projects in work totaling $88k.
Projects Completed: $71k
DB Conversion WO #7
DB Conversion WO #8
Back End Specifications Requirements
Draft Tracking Support IETF Community Dev
Tools Awaiting Deployment
Community ID Tracking Tool
WG Charter
Current Projects: $88k
DB Conversion WO #9
Charter Milestone Management Development
Back End Development
Convert Secretariat Tools to new DB Schema
NomCom Tool Specs
Remote Participation Services Spec Dev
RFIs:
Mail Archive
Agenda Scheduling Tool
e. Infrastructure Study - Dave
Dave notes that the next step is to summarize the
configuration details from the meeting, which will be done
in the upcoming weeks.
4. Meetings Update
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Ray reported on the Paris numbers:
1. Registered: 1,529
2. Paid: 1,311
Actual Budget
a. Early Bird 1023 900
b. Full Rate 121 125
c. Student 78 50
d. Day Pass 89 60
3. Revenues Actual Budget Variance
$805k $725.5k $79.5k
4. First Meeting: 249 paid
5. Top 5 Countries (paid)
a. US 494
b. FR 121
c. CN 105
d. JP 83
e. DE 80
The financial statement may take 2-3 weeks to be produced as
most of ISOC is in Geneva for Global INET.
Ray reported on the Paris survey results:
1. 345 responses
2. Europe 149; North America 144
3. 231 "IETF workers" (leadership, authors)
4. Age
47 <40 14%
113 40's 33%
115 50's 34%
57 60's 17%
10 70's 3%
5. Return to Paris
Strongly Support 59%
Weakly Support 30%
Only if necessary 9%
No 3%
6. Facilities
Internet Service in Hotel 3.14 out of 5
F&B 3.22
7. Plenaries
Technical 4.1
Admin 3.9
Comments included:
I continue to wonder what we can remove from the
plenaries.
consolidate. Many of the reports could be made
available online, and then attendees could simply ask
questions.
make the administrative plenary more newcomer-friendly
(this is my fourth meeting and I still get lost amongst
acronyms).
too much presentation of stuff
Much can best be done as a very brief summary, with
details available on the web site.
The administrative plenary always seems like a 15
minute meeting crammed into 7 hours.
It is suggested to see during the IAOC retreat how much the
report can be consolidated down, down to 5 slides is one
possible target.
The general message is to use plenary time
better. However long the meeting, we need to make it more
relevant to the audience.
8. Sample Comments from the Attendee Survey
2015 Meetings Update
Ray discussed venues under consideration for IETF’s 92 and 93.
5. Bits and Bites Update
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Russ reported that a message was sent that an experiment
will proceed with the next 2 meetings. A couple people have
already indicated they might be interested in a table and
Drew is working with them. So far the floating figures
have been $10,000 and 2 hours, based roughly on the Beer
and Gear. Dave is concerned that there should be a written
proposal for which the details can be discussed before
committing. Scott agrees that a written proposal would
be useful. Bob asked Russ to prepare something to be sent
to the IAOC list and Russ agreed. Russ will write down all
the current tentative details/working hypothesis and send
it out for discussion.
6. Retreat Agenda
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Ray and Bob have been working on sending an agenda out for
comments by the end of this week. You should expect to see
things that have been raised over the course of the last 3
months. There is the expectation that the 2nd day will at
least go to 3:00. As of yet there are no conflicting
flights with the schedule.
7. AOB
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A discussion ensued that it was important to better
understand the Bits and Bites sponsorship environment and to
be able to approach possible sponsors. A study would cost
$30,000 based upon a proposal received by Dave. Russ
expressed concern about past experiences using outside
consultants which have been less than fruitful,
particularly one instance in which every proposal was
rejected within the first read. Someone raised the belief
that ISOC had done a study about sponsorship opportunities
with the IETF. Ray said he would look to see if there was
one that could be shared with the IAOC.
The May 3 call is staying as scheduled but has a significant
chance of being canceled or moved due to its proximity to
the May 8-9 retreat and the conflict with the IESG retreat.
Lynn reported on the endowment luncheon planned for the
Global INET with a purpose of seeing how some of the messages
resonate.
Bob adjourned the IAOC meeting at 11:04 EST.