ARIN 33 Members Meeting Notes - Friday, 11 October 2013

Table of Contents

Opening And Announcements

Speaker: John Curran, ARIN President and CEO
Transcript

Highlights:

  • Head Table Introductions
  • Overview of meeting rules
  • Discussion moderator: Vinton G. Cerf, Chair, ARIN Board of Trustees
  • Overview of Members Meeting agenda
  • Overview of ARIN Meeting Materials

Attendees present in session room: approximately 90

Remote participants present: approximately 10

Unique webcast viewers: 89

Global Reports: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

Speaker: Elise Gerich, VP of IANA and Technical Operations at ICANN

Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Presentation Highlights:

  • Audit success
  • Performance
  • Delegated new gTLDs
  • Customer Service Survey
  • Review of Trusted Community Representation for Root Zone DNSSEC Key Signing Ceremony
  • Recap of IANA functions – domain names, number resources, protocol assignments

There were no questions or discussion topics following this presentation.

Global Reports: RIPE NCC

Speaker: Andrew de la Haye, RIPE NCC
Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Presentation Highlights:

  • Regional expansion overview – staff and new office in Dubai, staff in Moscow
  • IPv4 status update
  • IPv4 transfers increasing
  • Membership and IPv6 – 70 percent of membership has an IPv6 allocation or assignment
  • Increased hijacking risk
  • Protecting resources
  • Assisted Registry Check (ARC)
  • RPKI update
  • RIPE NCC policy highlights
  • Outreach update
  • Operational improvements underway
  • 25th anniversary of RIPE NCC – in Warsaw, Chairman Rob Blokzijl will step down after 25 years

Discussion transcript - Questions/Discussion Topics:

  • Praise for the ARC effort
  • Clarification regarding RPKI and path validation
  • RIPE NCC ROA creation tool overview
  • Clarification on the extent of the ARC effort

Global Reports: LACNIC

Speaker: Sergio Rojas, LACNIC
Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Presentation Highlights:

  • Membership report – 3,556 members
  • Resource update
  • IPv4 allocations and assignments
  • IPv6 allocations and assignments – 65 percent of members have IPv6 addresses
  • IPv6 deployment update
  • RPKI update
  • Ayitic program overview – Haiti island development
  • Previous and upcoming meetings – Cancun, May 2014

There were no questions or discussion topics following this presentation.

Global Reports: APNIC

Speaker: Guangliang Pan, APNIC
Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Presentation Highlights:

  • APNIC new vision statement
  • Membership update
  • IPv6 delegations
  • IPv4 delegations
  • IPv4 transfer statistics
  • ASN delegation
  • Whois updates
  • MyAPNIC improvements
  • Supporting Internet development in the Asia Pacific region
  • Policy update
  • IPv6 deployment update
  • Training update
  • Infrastructure capacity building
  • ISIF and Seed Alliance overview
  • Internet community collaboration
  • APNIC Labs update
  • Strategic engagement
  • IANA oversight transition
  • Invitation to attend APNIC 38 in Brisbane

There were no questions or discussion topics following this presentation.

Fee Structure Review Update

Speaker: John Curran, ARIN President and CEO
Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Presentation Highlights:

  • Fee Structure review panel overview and report – committee tweaking draft report that contains seven different approaches
  • Fee Structure review process – expect to release report for community comment by the end of May/early June; discussion at ARIN 34 in October

Discussion transcript - Questions/Discussion Topics:

  • Suggestion to raise fees to speed up development within ARIN Online
  • Clarification regarding the revenue neutrality of the Fee Structure review
  • Comment that end-users, some of whom are paying more with the current fee schedule than in the past, shouldn't be treated as second class citizens – they should be given membership

Registration Services Department Report

Speaker: Leslie Nobile, ARIN Director of Registration Services
Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Presentation Highlights

  • Trends and observations
  • Service level impact
  • Current IPv4 inventory and block size distribution
  • IPv4 Countdown Plan overview
  • IPv4 burn/churn rates
  • IPv4 waiting list overview
  • Specified Transfer Listing Services (STLS) overview
  • Specified transfers
  • Inter-RIR transfers
  • ISP members with both IPv4 and IPv6

Discussion transcript - Questions and discussion highlights:

  • Request for a transferred IP address block size histogram
  • Concern regarding RSD response times and the lack of adequate staff to handle the workload and the work involved in fraud investigation efforts
  • Clarification regarding whether there are IPv6-only ISP members
  • Concern regarding 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 transfer complexity
  • Clarification regarding transfer pre-approvals and how long they are valid for
  • Concern regarding the potential for over-dissection of large-scale policy changes 
  • Concern regarding legal involvement during a resource request documentation review cycle when it should be more of a technical issue
  • Clarification regarding the success of the global policy for unifying the ASN pool and its implementation at ARIN
  • Concern regarding the ASN pool policy change to issuing 4-byte ASNs by default

Engineering Department Report

Speaker: Mark Kosters, ARIN Chief Technology Officer
Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Presentation Highlights:

  • Staffing update – almost at full strength
  • 2014 efforts
  • Operational Test and Evaluation environment overview
  • Security audit overview
  • Database migration efforts – Oracle to Postgres
  • ARIN Online usage continues to increase
  • RESTful transactions and reports
  • RPKI usage – slow uptake
  • Whois queries over IPv4 and IPv6
  • IRR object statistics
  • Interops
  • Registry Data Access Protocol overview – ARIN leading the charge to make it available
  • Upcoming efforts
  • ARIN's code repository

Discussion transcript - Questions/Discussion Topics:

  • Praise for completing security audit
  • Clarification regarding unique REST users
  • Two-factor authentication

Advisory Council Report

Speaker: John Sweeting, Chair, ARIN Advisory Council
Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Presentation Highlights:

  • Advisory Council members
  • Role of the Advisory Council in ARIN's Policy Development Process
  • 2014 on-docket proposals
  • 2013 activities

There were no questions or discussion topics following this presentation.

Financial Report

Speaker: Paul Andersen, Treasurer, ARIN Board of Trustees
Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Presentation Highlights:

  • 2013 financial audit results – a clean audit
  • Functional expense comparison
  • Q1 financial results
  • Reserve and investment history
  • Reserve policy

There were no questions or discussion topics following this presentation.

Board Of Trustees Report

Speaker: Vint Cerf, Chairman, ARIN Board of Trustees
Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Presentation Highlights:

  • Board of Trustees activities since ARIN 32
    • Financial and fiduciary actions
    • Number resource policy actions
    • Other activities

Discussion transcript - Questions/Discussion Topics:

  • Acceptable number of candidates for each open Board and Advisory Council position
  • Clarification regarding the status of discussion surrounding Board and Advisory Council member term limits

Open Microphone

Moderator: Vint Cerf, Chairman, ARIN Board of Trustees
Transcript

Highlights:

  • Clarification regarding revenue increases since the last fee schedule change
  • Praise for ARIN staff
  • Status and future of 2-byte and 4-byte ASN distinction in the ARIN community
  • Meeting fellow thanks ARIN for the opportunity to attend ARIN 33 and thanks to the AC mentors

Closing Announcements and Adjournment

Speaker: John Curran, ARIN President and CEO
Transcript

Highlights:

  • Sponsor acknowledgement
  • Adjournment (12:38 PM)