Address & Protocol Councils
Moderator: Ole Jacobsen
Introduction: Partick Greenwald
Rapporteur: Keith Mitchell
About 20 attendees
Address Council
Lack of consensus on whether users should be represented directly in councils
If yes, by what mechanism ?
IP number space is different from name space: finite resource, technical constraints
Need appeals/dispute resolution process for address council/RIR decisions
Need to distinguish between cases specific to particular regions from general issues
Don't forget routing identifiers (AS#s) and
in-addr.arpa
domain !
Protocol Council
IETF/IAB as supporting organisation
RFC 2026, 2027 describes IETF/IAB structure and democratic processes
Opportunity for input into this process via Chicago IETF meeting 24-28th
Should other Internet-relevant standards bodies e.g. W3C, ISO, ITU be represented ?