I would like to share with you what I have been doing as RIPE Chair
since the last RIPE meeting in Warsaw in may now that the RIPE 69
meeting in London is just some days away.
The agenda for the RIPE meeting as been published at
https://ripe69.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/
The Program committee has done a very good job in putting together a
program for the week, all working-groups have published their agendas,
and most working-groups have started working on wg-chair procedures as
agreed at the last wg-chairs meeting.
The working-group chairs will meet as usual for lunch on Thursday. The
agenda for this meeting can be found at
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/cc/agenda/ripe-69-working-group-chair-meeting-agenda
As RIPE Chair I am invited as an observer to the RIPE NCC exec board
meetings in order to coordinate activities between RIPE and the RIPE
NCC. There have been board meetings in June and September and minutes of
the meetings are posted at
http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/ncc/executive-board/minutes/2014
The theme of my first half-year as Chair, and before that as Deputy
Chair, has been to get to know the community better, trough
participating in regional meetings.
* MENOG 14 in Dubai, UAE
* SEE 3 in Sofia, Bulgaria
* ENOG 7, Moscow, Russia
* ENOG 8, Baku, Kazakhstan
These meetings have given me a better view of the current issues in our
region. While we in Western and Northern Europe have a multitude of
Internet exchanges to improve regional and national connectivity, there
are challenges in the Middle East and further east. International
connectivity is also a challenge - limited by available international
fibber, and with higher cost than in areas with more competition between
fibber providers. Privacy issues were high on the agenda at ENOG. There
was a lively discussion on how to deal with government request. It is
great to see the participation of these meetings, both in numbers and in
content. The technical discussions in the meeting and the corridors, to
exchange ideas and solve problems.
The RIPE NCC also does outreach to governments in our region. I
participated at the High-level meeting in Brussels the RIPE NCC arranged
in close cooperation with CENTR, as well as a Law enforcement meeting
earlier this year in London.
During the summer I went to Toronto Canada for IETF 90, my primary
interest was the discussions on the IANA transition. In addition I
attended most of the Operational track.
The NRO Number Council appointed me to the ICANN NomCom for 2014 and we
completed our work and appointed ICANN board members as well as ALAC,
GNSO and ccNSO council members.
The report from the 2014 NomCom can be found at
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-16oct14-en.pdf
the was also an urgent appointment of a board member to replace xxx who
stepped down unexpectedly during the ICANN week. I was not able to
participate in this appointment due to less than 24 hours notice for the
meeting.
The NomCom also conducted a peer review of our contributions to the
committee. The report from this has been published
https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/360-review-members-15oct14-en.pdf
The Number Council was kind enough to reappoint me to the 2014 Non-com,
which started its work with a two day meeting following the ICANN
meeting in Los Angeles. The call for nominations will be out shortly.
This year the NomCom will be appointing 3 board members. Looking at the
board composition there is particular need for board members from the
African region and the Latin American region, but good candidates from
Europe are also welcome.
The NRO NC will in addition to the NomCom appointments, appoint one
board member, see the announcement at
https://www.nro.net/news/aso-ac-call-for-nominations-for-seat-9-on-the-icannboard
In order to better understand the Internet Governance issues in a
broader sense I have participated in
* Annual meeting with the Norwegian regulator, Lillesand, Norway
* EuroDig, Berlin Germany
* IGF2014, Istanbul, Turkey
My interest in Eurodig and IGF was the NTIA transition of the IANA
function. ICANN had a strong presence at IGF and there were several good
discussions on how ICANN accountability can be improved.
* ITU Plenipotentiary 2014 in Busan, Korea.
The Norwegian Ministry of Transportation and Communication invited me to
participate on the Norwegian delegation at the ITU Plenipotentiary 2014
conference in Busan, with the trip funded by the RIPE NCC. The RIPE NCC
is a sector member of the ITU-D and participating with its own
delegation with Chris, Maxim and Chadic.
There are excellent reports from the meeting by Samantha Dickinson
athttp://linguasynaptica.com/ as well as live twitter updates, see
#Plenipot14
With this short report I hope I have given you some insight into what
the RIPE Chair has been doing since the last meeting.
Sincerely,
Hans Petter Holen
RIPE Chair
# The above text has also been posted at
_http://blog.hph.oslo.net/2014/10/ripe-chair-report-october-2014.html_
