ARIN 33 Members Meeting Notes - Wednesday, 16 April 2014 [Archived]

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
  • Network Connectivity sponsor: ServerCentral and RCN Business
  • Happy Hour sponsor: ServerCentral
  • Webcast sponsor: Google
  • ARIN Social Event sponsor: Level4 Hardware
  • Refreshment Break sponsor: ServerHub
  • Reminder to complete meeting survey
  • Invitation to all to attend ARIN 34 in Baltimore, 9-10 October 2014
• Adjournment (12:38 PM)

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