ARIN XXX Members Meeting Notes - Friday, 26 October 2012 [Archived]

Opening and Announcements

Presenter: John Curran, ARIN President and CEO

Transcript

John Curran opened the meeting with announcements and thanked terremark, a Verizon company, for sponsoring network connectivity for ARIN XXX. He reminded all eligible voters to cast their ballots in the Advisory Council and Board elections.

ARIN Updates: Registration Services

Presenter: David Huberman, ARIN Principal Technical Analyst

Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Highlights included:

• Staff overview
• Current tasks and focus
• ARIN’s IPv4 Countdown Plan (currently in phase 2)
• Internet number resource transfers in 2012
• IPv4 Churn (returned and reclaimed space)
• Current IPv4 Inventory
• Recovered resourcs since 2007
• Legacy RSA requests as of September 2012
• IPv4 RSA coverage
• Total organizations served by ARIN
• IPv4 vs IPv6 subscribers

At the conclusion of the presentation, comments and questions were taken from the floor. Discussion highlights included:

• Clarification regarding the IPv6-only customers
• Clarification of phases 3 and 4 of ARIN’s IPv4 Countdown Plan
• Question regarding the proposed new fee structure’s impact on multiple organization records which may need to be consolidated

ARIN Updates: Human Resources and Administration

Presenter: Mary K. Lee, ARIN Director of HR & Administration

Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Highlights included:

• Staff overview
• Current tasks
• Employee tenure overview
• Staffing and recruitment

There were no comments or questions from the floor at the conclusion of the presentation.

ARIN Updates: Government Affairs and Public Policy Support

Presenter: Cathy Handley, ARIN Exec. Director Gov’t Affairs & Public Policy

Transcript

Highlights included:

• World Telecomunnication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) overview
• WTSA study topics
• World Conference on International Telecommunication Regulations (WCIT) overview
• WCIT issues and outcomes
• What’s next
  • Increasing interest in the Internet,
  • Government discomfort with a community-driven model and would prefer an ITU-type venue

There were no comments or questions from the floor at the conclusion of the presentation.

ARIN Updates: Financial Services

Presenter: Bob Stratton, ARIN Chief Financial Officer

Presentation: PDF
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Highlights included:

• Staff overview
• ARIN Online experience
• Planninf for the upcoming new fee schedule
• 2012 operational experience
• Payment types
• Registration revenue
• ARIN asset and liabilities balance sheets
• World GDP overview
• S&P 500 stock index

There were no comments or questions from the floor at the conclusion of the presentation.

ARIN Updates: Engineering

Presenter: Mark Kosters, ARIN Chief Technology Officer

Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Highlights included:

• Staff overview
• Operations tasks
• Whois-RWS traffic loads
• Web traffic over IPv4 IPv6
• Development and QA work
• Initiatives currently underway
• ARIN Online Usage overview
• Reg-RWS (RESTful Provisioning)
• RPKI Pilot overview
• Production RPKI usage and results
• IRR usage statistics
• RPKI upcoming challenges
• Schedule pressure

At the conclusion of the presentation, comments and questions were taken from the floor. Discussion highlights included:

• Clarification regarding staffing fluctuation
• Question regarding host-level Whois-RWS statistics

ARIN Updates: Communications and Member Services

Presenter: Susan Hamlin, ARIN Director of Communications and Member Services

Presentation: PDF
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Highlights included:

• Staff overview
• ARIN membership statistics
• Organization services
• Social media update
• Materials overview
• Upcoming outreach activities

At the conclusion of the presentation, comments and questions were taken from the floor. Discussion highlights included:

• Thanks for removing the registration fee for upcoming public policy meetings

ARIN Advisory Council Report

Presenter: John Sweeting, ARIN Advisory Council Chair

Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Highlights included:

• 2012 Advisory Council election
• The AC’s role in the PDP
• 2012 policy activity update

There were no comments or questions from the floor at the conclusion of the presentation.

ARIN Financial Report

Speaker: Paul Andersen, Treasurer, ARIN Board of Trustees

Presentation: PDF
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Highlights included:

• 2012 YTD financial summary results
• August financial results

There were no comments or questions from the floor at the conclusion of the presentation.

ARIN Board of Trustees Report

Speakers: John Curran, ARIN President and CEO

Presentation: PDF
Transcript

Highlights included:

• Recent Board of Trustees activities since ARIN XXIX
  • Review of the proposed fee schedule
  • Annual workshop overview
  • Return of IPv4 address space to IANA

At the conclusion of the presentation, comments and questions were taken from the floor. Discussion highlights included:

• Clarification regarding current inventory policy and procedure regarding returns to IANA
• Clarification of the update made to the ARIN mission statement

Open Microphone

Moderator: John Curran, ARIN President and CEO

Transcript

John Curran moderated the open microphone session.

Highlights included:

• Encouragement for the community to participate in discussions regarding how communications might be improved within the ARIN region
• Question regarding ARIN’s signed routes and how legacy resource holders

Closing Announcements and Meeting Adjournment

Speaker: John Curran, ARIN President and CEO

Transcript

John Curran made closing announcements and thanked all of the meeting attendees, the members of ARIN and members of the community for participating. John concluded by adding that ARIN hoped to see everyone at ARIN 31 in Barbados (22-25 April 2013).

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