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Advisory Council of the Internet Society
Document: 94-005
Title: Council IETF Meeting Report
Author(s): "George H. Clapp" <clapp@ameris.center.il.ameritech.com>
Date: 8 Dec 1994
Committee: ISOC Advisory Council
Revision: basic
Supersedes:
Status: Draft
Access: Unrestricted
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Summary of a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session of the Internet Society
Advisory Council (ISOC AC).
Monday, Dec. 5, 1994
San Jose, California
The group briefly reviewed the statistics on the individual and
organizational members of the Internet Society (the information was
extracted from an email distributed by Tony Rutkowski).
ISOC AC organizational members (as of 2/2/94)
121 members
ISOC individual members (as of 12/1/94)
3741 members (from 141 countries)
Countries with 1% or more of the total members:
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
The group turned to a discussion of the following recommendations made
at a meeting of the ISOC AC officers in Reston, Virginia, on Wednesday,
Nov. 16, 1994. The participants of the 11/16/94 meeting were...
Rick Adams officer
George Clapp officer
Mike Conn (by phone) officer emeritus
C. Joe Pasquariello officer
Nicholas Trio officer
Tony Rutkowski convener
Resolutions:
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 Birds of a Feather (BOF) session
for the ISOC AC at the next IETF.
Discussion focused on recommendations 4, 5, and 6.
Recommendation 4: There was general agreement; 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.
Recommendation 5: General agreement.
Recommendation 6: There was an attempt to clarify the recommendation.
The following proposed objective of the ISOC was referenced (source:
Tony Rutkowski):
"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):
- 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."
- Will the organizational dues increase?
- Will the funding organizations (e.g., NSF) consent to have their
funds administered by ISOC?
- 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.
- 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.
The following recommendations and decisions were made:
- The ISOC should release an Annual Report.
- At the beginning of a calendar year, the ISOC should distribute an
agenda listing objectives for the year.
- The ISOC AC will convene a meeting at every IETF meeting.
The following were present:
Guy Almes
Jon Becker
Brian Carpenter
John Chang
Kilnam Chon
George Clapp
Steve Cisler
David Conrad
Lile Elam
Gene Hastings
Geoff Huston
Priscilla Huston
Ole Jacobsen
Suzanne Johnson
Stev Knowles
Mark Laubach
Bob Lemley
Mark Lottor
Paul Love
Mike O'Dell
Dave Sincoskie
David Woodgate
Respectfully submitted,
George Clapp
voice: 708-765-2360
fax: 708-765-3350
email: clapp@ameris.ameritech.com
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