This is an updated and final summary of the last call and conclusion from the
IESG processing of this draft. Two minor editorial changes are being made in a
-09 that will be posted shortly, and the approval announcement comes out after
that.
This document has attained rough consensus of the IETF Working Group and of the
IETF community as a whole, as judged first by the working group chairs and then
by the sponsoring Area Director, and then by the IESG in accordance with RFC
2026 in the December 18 IESG telechat. The IESG has approved the draft, and as
noted the formal approval announcement is due as soon as the new version is
uploaded.
Over the course of the development of the document, several suggestions were
raised that did not enjoy sufficient support to be included. Two main ones
worth mentioning include
• A suggestion for a stronger statement over what terms the IAOC should
negotiate.
• A suggestion that "iana.org" and other associated marks be
transferred to the IETF trust.
At the end of the working group process, although there was not unanimous
support for the results, the working group chairs concluded that rough
consensus existed in the working group. The document shepherd’s summary of the
WG consensus for this document can be found here:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ianaplan-icg-response/shepherdwriteup/
During IETF last call, additional people voiced support for the document. There
were several editorial comments that resulted in changes, as well as some
discussion of more substantial comments some of which resulted in text changes.
There was some discussion of comments already discussed earlier in the process,
and but no new objections were raised during the IETF last call. A summary of
the last call comments can be found from the end of this e-mail.
New draft versions had been prepared by the editors per discussions on the
mailing list and with the sponsoring AD. The new versions and associated
changes can be found here:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ianaplan-icg-response-07 (primary
changes after last call)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ianaplan-icg-response-08 (text from
the IAB, description of the level of consensus)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ianaplan-icg-response-09 (two
editorial corrections)
http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url1=draft-ietf-ianaplan-icg-response-06&url2=draft-ietf-ianaplan-icg-response-09
(all changes)
During the IETF last call and IESG evaluation, the following points were made:
• Positive evaluation from Christer Holmberg, Melinda Shore, Alissa
Cooper, Richard Barnes, and Ted Lemon. Currently, there is a Yes position from
12 Area Directors.
• Editorial comments from Brian Carpenter, Sean Turner, Pete Resnick,
Adrian Farrell, Spencer Dawkins, Alissa Cooper, Alia Atlas, Richard Barnes, and
Christer Holmberg. These have resulted in text changes.
• A comment from Pete Resnick around the use of full text from IETF
mission statement RFC. This has resulted in a text change.
• A comment from Sean Turner about some missing parts in the response.
This has resulted in text changes.
• Agreement with the general message, but a question and a concern from
John Levine around roles in policy disputes, and contracts in case of changes
in who is the IANA operator. These were resolved through discussion with Eliot
Leor, Brian Carpenter, and Jari Arkko. This resulted in text changes.
• Discussion on the availability of text for Section 5 and how that can
be handled process-wise, started by Adrian Farrell. Suggested resolution is to
use the text that IAB wants to indicate, "The IAB supports the response in this
document". The text is now out in the working group list, which it was not
before. A new document version is needed to add this text.
• Discussion on the role of the document after IESG approval, and
whether the goal was to get IESG review or approval. The sponsoring AD believes
that it is important to use our normal approval process, and ensure that the
IESG agrees with the consensus assessments in this case. Whether the document
gets published as an RFC or not is somewhat immaterial, because the main
purpose of providing an IETF view on the matter is to collect several views
together from different organisations to gather a complete transition proposal.
• Discussion of the rationale for concluding rough consensus from
Richard Hill (responses from Marc Blanchet, Andrew Sullivan, Milton Mueller,
Jari Arkko, Brian Carpenter, John Curran, and Jefsey). Richard was requesting a
justification (beyond information already available) for why the conclusion was
what it was, and deferring the IESG decision.
• Recommendation to the IAOC to create stronger supplemental or
replacement agreements between the IETF and ICANN, by Milton Mueller and the
Internet Governance Project. The recommendation recognises the rough consensus
behind the current proposal that specifies requirements but does not call out
explicit agreement mechanisms, but suggests that the stronger agreements would
be extremely significant. The recommendation goes on to "provide information to
the IETF's leadership regarding what the unresolved issues were, why it is
important to resolve them, and how it might respond to them with supplemental
agreements". The recommendation also states that the advocated actions are in
line with the current IANAPLAN draft. The IAOC has taken this input for
consideration. It should be noted that these recommendations were discussed as
part of the WG deliberations, however. The WG consensus did not agree with the
recommendations.
• Jefsey has noted that he intends to file a future appeal on this
topic, around the responsibilities of the IETF and RFC 6852. Jefsey notes "My
point will not be to change it, but to make sure that the IESG, and IAB, and
ISOC, fully and publicly declare that they understand, accept and decide that
this is what they mean." It is not clear that there is anything to do about
this at the moment, particularly when at least the sponsoring AD does not
understand the provided feedback; this is an IETF document that will, as it
gains approval, will have been processed by the IESG and will explicitly note
that the IAB supports the described transition. Response by Andrew Sullivan on
December 15 indicates that he does not believe any changes to the document or
the summaries produced by the WG officials were necessary.
• The IAOC has indicated that they are comfortable with the direction
the document gives for the IAOC.
Jari Arkko, the sponsoring Area Director for draft-ietf-ianaplan-icg-response
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