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Internet Society Advisory Council BOF (ISOC)
Reported by George Clapp/Ameritech
Membership Status
The group briefly reviewed the statistics on the individual and
organizational members of the Internet Society (the information was
extracted from an e-mail distributed by Tony Rutkowski).
As of 2 February 1994, there are 121 ISOC Advisory Council
organizational members. As of 1 December 1994, there are 3741
individual ISOC members (from 141 countries). The countries with 1% or
more of the total members are:
Australia 60
Canada 100
Czech Republic 42
France 56
Germany 87
Italy 47
Japan 223
Netherlands 82
Spain 40
Switzerland 45
Thailand 87
United Kingdom 120
USA 1960
November ISOC AC Meeting
The group turned to a discussion of the following recommendations made
at a meeting of the ISOC AC officers in Reston, Virginia, on Wednesday,
16 November 1994. The participants of the meeting were: Rick Adams,
officer; George Clapp, officer; Mike Conn (by phone), officer emeritus;
C. Joe Pasquariello, officer; Nicholas Trio, officer; and Tony
Rutkowski, convener.
The following resolutions/recommendations were made:
1. A draft charter for the Advisory Council will be distributed for
comment.
2. The ISOC AC officers shall serve for a term of 3 years, after which
they are not eligible to serve for a consecutive term. After a
hiatus of one term, however, they are eligible to serve again.
3. The officers shall not bear titles (i.e., no Chair, Vice-Chair,
etc.).
4. Request the Board of Trustees (BoT) to modify the bylaws to seat
the four officers of AC as voting members of the BoT.
5. Recommend that the special status of the Charter ISOC Members be
revoked, while recognizing their contribution.
6. Funding for administrative tasks for the Internet presently comes
from multiple sources to multiple destinations. For better
coordination and to establish the role of the ISOC, this funding
should be channeled through the ISOC.
7. Tony Rutkowski will coordinate a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session
for the ISOC AC at the next IETF.
Discussion
Discussion focused on recommendations 4, 5, and 6.
There was general agreement of recommendation 4; no one voiced
opposition. A debate was related within the Board of Trustees over
whether the ISOC is an professional association of individuals or of
organizations.
There was general agreement of recommendation 5.
There was an attempt to clarify recommendation 6. The following
proposed objective of the ISOC was referenced (Tony Rutkowski, source):
``Coordinating and progressively funding all global internet
administrative infrastructure, such as naming and addressing,
standards secretariat, etc.''
The following points were made (in no particular order):
o We need to know where the funding is going. The benefit of the
funded work must have some significance to the organization and to
the country in which the organization resides. An illustrative
comment was, ``As long as it's global, it's fine.''
o Will the organizational dues increase?
o Will the funding organizations (e.g., NSF) consent to have their
funds administered by ISOC?
o The ISOC should assert that internet addresses are their
intellectual property and that they shall administer them. There
was debate whether this meant that the ISOC would directly
administer or oversee the administration of the addresses.
o The role of the ISOC was characterized as the following:
- Making sure ``it'' gets done (e.g., naming and addressing, RFC
editorship).
- Providing a place for liability.
- Acting as the focal organization as administrative
responsibility for the Internet shifts away from existing
bodies (e.g., US Federal agencies).
- Acting as a focal point for the general public for information
concerning the Internet. This was emphasized as perhaps the
prime purpose of the ISOC.
Recommendations and Decisions
o The ISOC should release an Annual Report.
o At the beginning of a calendar year, the ISOC should distribute an
agenda listing objectives for the year.
o The ISOC AC will convene a meeting at every IETF meeting.