IANA Committee (IC) Minutes | 9 February 2010

IC attendees: Harald Alvestrand – chair, Dennis Jennings, Thomas Narten, Katim Touray, and Suzanne Woolf.

Staff Members Present: Doug Brent – COO, David Conrad – IANA Executive Director (Acting) & VP Research and IANA Strategy; John Jeffrey – General Counsel, Kurt Pritz – SVP-Services; Joe Abley, Kim Davies, Samantha Eisner, Barbara Roseman, Diane Schroeder, Amy Stathos, and Leo Vegoda.

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The following is a summary of discussions, actions taken and actions identified:

1. Received update from staff of progress on action items identified at the previous meeting.
   • Actions:
     • Staff to provide IC with contextual information on the root glue policy, along with a proposal of possible steps forward, in preparation of public posting of the external review and proposals.
     • Once IC reviews staff’s summary of external review of root glue policy by email, staff to publicly post materials.
     • Staff to initiate work on standardizing documentation on process review.
     • Staff to provide target due dates for open action items, for IC review and consideration.
2. Received an operational status report from Staff on the roll out of DNSSEC and the status of work on ICANN’s generic signing infrastructure.
3. Received update from staff regarding failover and business continuity planning efforts within the IANA Functions department.
   • Actions:
     • Once completed, staff to forward to the IC the after-action report on the exercise.
     • Staff to provide IC with documentation of business assumptions included within the failover and business continuity exercise.
4. Received update from staff on the external review of the root zone management process and potential operational items to address arising out of the review. Discussed potential for future follow-on review of the RZM process focused on production of the process.
   • Action:
     • Staff to provide communication plan to IC by email.
5. Received an update from staff on the work to internally document IANA Functions Department current practice in delegations/redelegations and root zone management.
   • Action:
     • Staff to provide IC with information on potential issues in IANA request processing;
     • Staff to work to achieve agreement on publishing documentation of current practice.
6. Discussed potential ways that the IC can facilitate Board consideration and action on delegation and redelegation issues.
   • Action:
     • Staff to draft a proposal for IC assistance to the Board in considering delegation and redelegation requests, including timing of IC involvement.