Please let me know if I'm misquoting or mis-hearing...
Thanks!
Spencer
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1930-2200 Plenary - IETF Business Meeting - Grande Ballroom
- Welcome, and introduction - Harald Alvestrand
Wednesday is state of the union, Thursday is planning for the future
1511 registered attendees, 40 countries, about half are US
Fall IETF is in Washington, DC with Alcatel as sponsor
- Thanks to the Tech Team - Jim Martin
The network that almost wasn't - no local host, 80% of equioment lost in
shipping,
current network built entirely out of last second replacement equipment from
Cisco, Priotity Networks, and others.
Peaks of 17 Mbps in both directions, with IPv6 and IPv4 multicast
Down from 35 G access points to 20 B access points, with three networks (Open,
WEP, 802.1X)
Using 4 remote probes with AirMagnet for monitoring
1532 unique MACs, peak of 890 simultaneous users, peak of 143 associations on
one AP
Network entirely done by volunteers this time, with entirely donated equipment
(Cisco gave twice!)
- Jon Postel Award (ISOC) - Steve Crocker
This year's recipient is Phil Gross, co-founder of the IETF, for his
contribution to the Internet standardization process
Letter, globe, check for $20,000
Being chair of IETF is like being mayor of New York - 60 percent approval is
good, but every good decision is a different
60 percent
IETF started different - idea was that technologists could work for the common
good and base choices on technical merit
Our areas were working groups in the beginning - and everybody wanted to go to
all the working group meetings
IETF is going through issues now, and they aren't small, but IETF has gone
through difficult times before - remember the
first time we invited industry? charged admission? created the IESG? the
protocol wars? ANSI S3X3 could have been the
IETF - things could have been very different!
- State of operations:
RFC Editor report
IANA report
IESG operations (Allison Mankin, Bill Fenner)
Reporting trends since 2003, measuring intervals between IETFs (so some
measurement anomolies, because time period varies
Data shows IESG and community both becoming more responsive - timeliness seems
to be positive feedback loop
More WG recharters this year than in all of 2003 - could we be paying more
attention to charters?
Want to make monthly data available
- Update from the PROTO (Process Team) work (Margaret and Henryk)
http://www.mip4.org/proto
Goal is WG chair shepherding through document review and approval process
Small changes, don't require modifications to 2026 or 2418
AD still has review and approval roles - shepherding role is delegated
draft-ietf-proto-shepherding-00.txt describes shepherding role
draft-ietf-proto-wgchair-doc-shepherding-01.txt describes process changes
Moving to a larger-scale experiment of this change
- Who's in charge of the Internet: The WSIS Deliberations (Robert Kahn, CNRI)
US and other developed nations think things are just fine
Other developing nations think somebody needs to be in charge of the Internet -
they think UN is best suited to provide leadership
Very decentralized system of cooperation, coordination and interaction
"If UN controlled ICANN, they would control the Internet"
Standardization mostly ignored, at least so far
Phase I of WSIS in December 2003 had about 12,000 attendees - finally took
Internet Governance off the agenda
UN working group to look at this in preparation for Phase II of WSIS in
November 2005, in Tunis
Interim activities taking place throughout 2004 - theme meetings on topics like
spam
Bob asking for research community reengagement
IETF now in the gunsights
Difficult to get agreement on definition of "Internet Governance" - UN isn't
monolithic, either
Lots of reading materials available
ICANN being attacked because they aren't part of the UN
- Review of Architectural Activities
IAB Chair report
Most recent published document (in queue) is on research funding (see IAB
website)
Planning messaging workshop in September/October timeframe
Also working on liaison mechanics (see drafts) - will be coming out for
community last call
IRTF Chair report
13 groups now in IRTF
ASRG related to MARID WG meeting at this IETF
CryptoForum RG actually supports IETF WGs with crypto questions
DTNRG showing a lot of activity (and meeting at this IETF)
HIP RG working on indirection infrastructure, operation over NATs, rendezvous
mechanisms, API
MOBOPTS also working closely with IETF mobility WGs
Network Management Research Group focused on XML-based management, SMIng specs
published
Routing RG focused on scalability, BGP stability, requirements for next-gen
routing, history of routing protocols
Services Management actively looking for participants
- IAB Open Plenary
No questions at all - amazing!
- IESG Open Plenary
Are we doing better? (applause) - we're trying to get somewhere
Recent changes in Internet Draft submission requirements - "semi-bounced" with
"does not conform" - doesn't help discussion
We're tardy in reflecting RFC 3667/3668 changes, and even more tardy in telling
you about the changes
We need to have the IPR copyright boilerplate right, even in IDs - this has
already been a problem, and we're reacting
Experience is much better than several years ago (when working on SLP)
There have been significant and important improvements
Does OPS sub-area not develop protocols? Is this a real rule? In general, this
is true, but we listen to reason
ID Nits document is really an RFC Nits document - formatting restrictions, etc.
don't matter early in the process
There are two documents, and we're not good at point out which is which - and
the only real requirement is copyright
IDs are read and reviewed - make them as reviewable as possible
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