------------------------------------------------------- Title: Report of the 24 June 96 Council Meeting Author(s): C.Joe PASQUARIELLO Date: 1996.08.15 Body: Advisory Council Document: 96-003 Revision: basic Supersedes: Status: Maintainer: C.Joe Pasquariello Access: Unrestricted ------------------------------------------------------- NB: 1. This and other documents of the ISOC Advisory Council are posted on the ISOC gopher server at . 2. IF YOU RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE, AND ARE NOT YOUR ORGANIZATION'S PRIMARY REPRESENTATIVE OR ALTERNATE TO ISOC PLEASE ADVISE - SO WE CAN TAKE ACTION TO KEEP OUR COUNCIL MAILING LIST [cy below] CURRENT. [TRUSTEE RECIPIENTS EXCEPTED]. THANX! PREFACE: ======= I apologize for being somewhat late with this report. On the OTHER hand - why has no one complained!? I suggest we all try to do a little better in breathing more life into the Advisory Council discussions and the Council mail list. Va bene ?? ---------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION: ============= The Council met on Monday, 24 June in Montreal during the week of INET 96 - preceding the meetings of the ISOC Board of Directors. The meeting was well attended [list attached] and we were fortunate in having a number of the ISOC Board members with us including Chairman Landweber, Vint Cerf, and ISOC CEO Don Heath. Several members missed the meeting because of its being schedule so early in the week [INET proceedings didn't start till Tuesday evening]. We'll give this some further thought when scheduling the next face-to-face meeting. A large part of our discussions to date have dealt with organizational and administrative matters. I believe that this phase is now essentially behind us. We have settled on a draft charter, and there is now a full-time member of the ISOC staff working on Organizational Member support. Initiatives are also underway to improve the operations of the ISOC server and mail lists. So - we can now [hopefully] devote more emphasis to the discussion and development of more substantive inputs to the Board on matters of interest to the Organizational Members of ISOC, and/or that we feel are relevant to the general health of the Internet and of the Society. AGENDA: ====== The Agenda, as adopted, is attached below and posted as Council Document [96-004]. SUMMARY OF MAJOR DECISION AND ACTIONS: ===================================== 1. Council Charter. A consensus was reached on modifications to the last draft [96-002]. It was also decided to incorporate the changes agreed in a new final' draft and to submit the final draft to the Council for any last call' major comments, and then to the ISOC Board of Trustees for approval. ACTION: Chair ============= 2. Officer Vacancy. It was decided to retain the current practice of four [4] Officers of the Council, and consequently to fill the existing Council Officer vacancy through an election procedure similar to that of the last election of officers in 1994. ACTION: Chair & ISOC Staff ========================== 3. Council Representation to the Board. It was agreed that the current arrangements are satisfactory and in keeping with the philosophy of individually elected Board Members - ie Council Officers will continue to participate in Board discussions and meetings as non-voting participants. ISOC PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. ======================== Don Heath, the "not so new" President and CEO of ISOC shared some of his views and visions for strengthening the ISOC roles in Internet administration, education, standards, and policy formulation. He is now up to speed, and the ISOC staff is being expanded and stabilized. He is desirous of working closely with the Council. Let Don hear from you at: Don Heath ! ACTION: ALL =========== REPORTS: ======= 1. Poised Activity. Eric Huizer, the Chair of the IETF Poised Working Group reported on the package of [4] Internet-Draft documents produced. These cover a revision to the IETF Standards Process, IAB and IESG Nomination and Election Procedures, Organizations involved in the IETF process, and ISOC/IETF Roles and Relationships. The Council commended Eric and his Group for bringing these important and somewhat long-standing issue areas to closure. The Council encouraged timely acceptance and wide dissemination and community awareness of these important process documents. 2. Domain Name System [DNS] Evolution. One of our Council Officers, Nick Trio has been active on our behalf in this very active issue area. Nick led the discussion, and brought the Council members up to date. There have been several developments in the DNS arena that are directly related to ISOC. The first was an Internet draft put out by Jon Postel, Brian Carpenter, Larry Landweber and Nick Trio on creation and administration of new Top Level Domains. This proposal has created a large discussion on the viability of new TLDs and how the DNS for the Internet should be run. Jon Postel has followed up with his current draft . Another workshop on Coordination and Administration of the Internet will be taking place September 8-10, 1996 in Cambridge, Mass., sponsored by NSF, Harvard IIP, CIX, ITU and ISOC. The current Council consensus is to support the "Postel" draft. [NOTE: The ISOC Board, at their meeting, approved the draft in principal, and the roles proposed for ISOC, at their subsequent meeting - and requested its further refinement]. Nick is planning on attending the September workshop, and remaining active in this area on the Council's behalf. Those with specific comments/inputs on DNS administration matters should contact Nick at: Nick Trio . ACTION: Nick Trio/ALL ===================== 3. International Policy Issues. Vint Cerf outlined a number of policy and legal issue areas that are pertinent to Internet and to the Society. These include matters of privacy, security, intellectual property, etc. Also - the appropriate roles, if any, for WIPO and WTO? Vint suggested that there may be some fruitful areas here where the Council may contribute. We didn't get a chance for much discussion on this item. Vint indicated he would post some questions to the list that the Council may be willing to tackle. Views, suggestions, comments, are solicited from the Council members. Please give this some thought and post your ideas and suggestions to the Council list . ACTION: Vint Cerf/ALL ===================== ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS ==================== Council Chair. Nick Trio will be assuming Chairmanship of the Council. This is a rotating assignment amongst the Council Officers. Nick will Chair our next meeting. You can address the current Officers [Rick Adams, Nick Trio, C.Joe Pasquariello] at: ISOC Staff Support. There is a full-time staff member, Michelle Lecompte dealing with organizational membership matters. Also a System Administrator for the ISOC web site and document servers, Frank Brunotts . The Council Email list is being scrubbed' and updated. A current copy of the list constituents is attached. If you see any errors, please pass them directly to Michelle and Frank - with an info copy to me. Investigation of an automated list server is underway. Let us hear from you with your comments, suggestions, gripes etc via the Council or Officers lists! And - DON'T FORGET - encourage your organizational associates who have a stake in the Internet, and who are not members of ISOC to consider joining. Membership information is available on the ISOC Web Server . Best regards, C.Joe P--> US DoD Chair enclosures (3): Attendees Agenda [96-004] Advisory Council Mail List ADVISORY COUNCIL ATTENDANCE 24 JUNE 1996 Laura Abba CNR-CNVCE (Italy) Bernard Aboba Microsoft Guy Almes Advanced Network & Services Mary Burger ISOC Staff Vint Cerf MCI Steve Cisler Apple Computer Jim Conklin CREN (Corp. for Res'h & Educ. Networking) Michael E. Conn MCI John Curran BBN Mike Edelhart Softbank Expos (LS) Lisa Ernst ISOC Staff Shigeki Goto ISOC Board Terry Gray Univ. of Washington Frode Greisen UNI-C Don Heath Internet Society Rick Hronicer Pac Bell Internet (USA) Christian Huitema Bellcore Erik Huizer SURFnet Haruhisa Ishida Internet Association of Japan (IAJ) Masaki Itoh NTT Ole Jacobsen Interop (Softbank Expos) Bog Kahn CNRI Tomaz Kalin ISOC Board Larry Landweber ISOC Board Stepen Leicht Jean LeMezec France Telecom Kees Neggers SURFnet Tim O'Reilly O'Reilly and Associates Joe Pasquariello US/DOD Jean Amour Polly Freelance writer Mobuo Sakata Fujitsu Limited (Japan) Robert Shaw ITU Nick Trio IBM Sefano Trumpy Terena (NL) & CNVCE-CNR (IT) ------------------------------------------------------- Title: ISOC Advisory Council Agenda - 24 June 96 Author(s): C.Joe PASQUARIELLO Date: 1996.06.17 Body: Advisory Council Document: 96-004 Revision: Final Supersedes: 96-001 Status: Adopted at meeting Maintainer: C.Joe Pasquariello Access: Unrestricted ------------------------------------------------------- ISOC ADVISORY COUNCIL 24 June 96, 0800-1100 Montreal, Canada [Room 403 A/B - Convention Center] Agenda 1.0 Address by the President ISOC Don Heath ============================= 2.0 REPORTS ======= 2.1 Poised Activities - Eric Huizer Standards process, Organizational roles & relations, etc 2.2 Domain Name System [DNS] Evolution Nick Trio 2.3 Status of the ISOC Charter Members Chair 2.4 International Policy Issues Vint Cerf 3.0 ACTION ITEMS ============ 3.1 Council Officer Vacancy Chair Refill, or remain at three (3) Officers vice (4)? 3.2 Advisory Council Charter Chair For final adoption and submission to Board of Trustees. NB: Previous draft is 95-010. Revised draft to be posted as 96-002 3.3 Representation of the Council to the Chair ISOC Board of Trustees To confirm or modify Council position Of December 95 re: voting rights. 4.0 ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS -------------------- 4.1 Membership Staff 4.2 Mail List and Data Base Staff 4.3 Rotation of the Council Chair Chair C.Joe Pasquariello US DoD Chair " "Rick Adams" "James Allard" "Guy Almes" "Robert Anderson (alt.)" "Fred Aronson" "Toshiya Asaba (alt.)" "Cliff Bamford" "Keith Basil" "Andrew Bjerring" "Mark R. Boolootian" "Charles Brownstein" "David Cantrell" "Vint Cerf " "Srisakdi Charmonman" "Chris Chaundy" "Steve Cisler" "Michael Clore" "Avi Cohen" "Jim Conklin (alt.)" "Michael Conn" "David Conrad" "Jim Dolgonas (alt.)" "T. Michael Elliott" "Benjamin Epstein" "Francois Fluckiger" "Dave Frederickson " "Ira Fuchs" "Kaye Gapen (alt.)" "Antonia Ghiselli (alt.)" "Bill Godwin (alt.)" "Ben Golding (alt.)" "Masaki Itoh" "Terry Gray" "Frode Greisen (alt.)" "Erik Grimmelmann" "Mark Haas" "Anthony Hearn" "Anita Holmgren" "Steve Holmgren (alt.)" "Ryoichi Hosoya" "Richard Hronicek" "Kathy Huber" "Geoff Huston" "Ole Jacobsen (alt.)" "Ron Johnson (alt.)" "Suzanne Johnson" "Walter Johnston" "Dr. D. F. Hartley" "Cyndi Jung (alt.)" "Kevin Kahn (alt.)" "Robert Kahn" "Tomaz Kalin (alt.)" "Rafiq Khan (alt.)" "Kenneth King" "Tracy LaQuey Parker" Advisory Council Mail List (cont.) ========================== "Mark Laubach" "Yuet Lee (alt.)" "Stephan Leicht" "Jean Le Mezec" "Bob Lemley" "Donald Lindberg" "Robert Lucky (alt.)" "Richard Mandelbaum" "Olivier Martin (alt.)" "Daniel Masys (alt.)" "Alexander McKenzie" "Kees Neggers" "Seppo Noppari (alt.)" "Richard Nuttall" "Jeffrey Ogden (alt.)" "C. Joe Pasquariello" "Adam Peake" "Ole Carsen Pedersen" "Abraham Peled" "Paul Peters" "Richard Pethia" "John Phillips" "Larry Rapagnani" "Peter Rastl" "Steve Russell" "Nobuo Sakata" "Vichai Sathtachotinun (alt.)" "Martin Schoffstall" "William Schrader (alt.)" "Paul Severino (alt.)" "Shawn Sexton " "Ehud Shapiro" "Robert Shaw" "Tony Shaw (alt.)" "W. David Sincoskie" "David Spector" "Robert Steele" "Hermann Steinringer (alt.)" "Glenn Stewart (alt.)" "Leonard Swatski (alt.)" "Olle Thylander (alt.)" "Nicholas Trio" "Stefano Trumpy" "Klaus Ullmann" "Enzo Valente" "Peter Villemoes" "Hans Wallberg" "Bernie White" "Ray White" "Michael Zisman"