FW: Moving Forward: Call for Volunteers

[Mark McFadden]

I posted this to the 2050-wg list that is working on redrafting RFC
2050.  I'm also posting a copy here to the public policy mailing list so
that it gets wider distribution.  I hope that, if you are interested,
you will volunteer to be a part of the small editing teams mentioned
below.

Mark

Mark McFadden
21st Century Texts
Internet Infrastructure Consulting for a New Century
Madison Wisconsin
mcfadden at 21st-century-texts.com


-----Original Message-----
From: 2050-wg-request at arin.net [mailto:2050-wg-request at arin.net] On
Behalf Of Mark McFadden
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:57 AM
To: 2050-wg at arin.net
Subject: Moving Forward: Call for Volunteers (editing/drafting)


All:

With the conclusion of the RIPE meeting last week in Amsterdam there
have been presentations at each RIR and the ASO General Assembly on the
plan for redrafting RFC 2050.

In each case I've made a call for comments on the proposed principles
and the proposed series of documents.  It's easy to summarize the
comments on the document series: there was very little.  Instead, many
comments surrounded how to publish the documents.  Some suggested that
the resulting documents be presented as IETF Informational RFCs.

It seems to me, based on the input I've received, that we can proceed
with the drafting of some of the documents BEFORE we agree HOW they are
to be published.

What I'd like to do now is put out a public call for volunteers to work
on small editorial teams to draft initial versions of the new documents.
The goal would to be to draft initial versions, submit them to this and
other appropriate lists, and present them at upcoming RIR meetings. I've
listed below the entire series of documents that have been proposed.

Now, I'd like to build small, volunteer groups who would be willing to
work on drafting initial documents for the series.  In particular, I'd
like to have volunteers for:

IP-ADDRdoc 1: INSTRUCTIONS TO EDITORS AND AUTHORS OF IP-ADDRdocs;
IP-ADDRdoc 2: A GUIDE TO ADDRESSING POLICY, ALLOCATION, AND PRINCIPLES;
IP-ADDRdoc 3: THE PRINCIPLES OF IP ADDRESS ALLOCATION FOR IPv4; and,
IP-ADDRdoc 5: THE PRINCIPLES OF AS NUMBER ASSIGNMENT

If you would like to volunteer for work on the drafting/editing of these
documents -- and I hope you do -- please reply to this email with an
indication of which of the documents you would like to work on.  I hope
to have small teams assembled in a week or so.

Thanks, the entire document series is pasted below.

Mark

Mark McFadden
21st Century Texts
Internet Infrastructure Consulting for a New Century
Madison Wisconsin
mcfadden at 21st-century-texts.com





To review, the proposed document series has the following documents:

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RFC 2050 REPLACEMENT DOCUMENT SERIES (ADDRESSING POLICY AND RIR
FRAMEWORK) "IP-ADDRdocs"
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IP-ADDRdoc 1: INSTRUCTIONS TO EDITORS AND AUTHORS OF IP-ADDRdocs A
document describing the purpose of the documents.  How each document is
to be formatted, written, approved and published.  A METAdocument for
the IP-ADDRdoc series.

IP-ADDRdoc 2: A GUIDE TO ADDRESSING POLICY, ALLOCATION, AND PRINCIPLES A
guide intended to provide an introduction to IP addressing policy, the
organization of the regional registries, and the RIR hierarchy to
individuals and organizations not intimately connected to the RIRs.
Tutorial in nature, this document would also provide a glossary to
commonly used terms at the RIRs and in addressing policy in general.
Much of the content for this section replaces Section 1 of RFC 2050 and
puts it into a "readable," user-friendly form.

IP-ADDRdoc 3: THE PRINCIPLES OF IP ADDRESS ALLOCATION FOR IPv4 This is
also part of the original RFC in section 1, but could easily stand on
its own. The document would also describe (or provide pointers to
information about) addressing decisions that address special cases in
IPv4.  This will certainly include private address space (with a pointer
to the appropriate RFC) and multicast.  It might include other instances
where special or reserved assignments have been made (either by IANA or
by the RIRs).

IP-ADDRdoc 4: THE PRINCIPLES OF IP ADDRESS ALLOCATION FOR IPv6
Self-explanatory, but in the wake of a recent RIPE meeting, a
potentially challenging document to write.

IP-ADDRdoc 5: THE PRINCIPLES OF AS NUMBER ASSIGNMENT Self-explanatory.

IP-ADDRdoc 6: CRITERIA GUIDELINES FOR IPv4 ADDRESS ALLOCATION This is a
reworking of Sections 2 through 4 of RFC 2050.  Special attention would
be paid to the common criteria used in all registries with pointers to
RIR operational documents.  This document would also define critical
terms, such as "engineering plans," "assignment history," "utilization
rate," and so forth.

IP-ADDRdoc 7: REVERSE MAPPING SERVICES FOR IPv4 Self-explanatory.  This
document would be a replacement for RFC 2050's section 5 and document
the architecture and maintenance of IN-ADDR.ARPA.

IP-ADDRdoc 8: ADDRESSING AND NUMBERING ORGANIZATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
This document would include a description of the RIRs, IANA, ICANN, and
the IETF.  The document would document the relationship between the
RIR's and ICANN (a pointer to the MoU and explanatory text), the
mechanism by which new registries come into existence (or a pointer),
the relationship between RIRs and the ASO, and the relationship between
the RIRs and the IETF.  This document would also replace the "Right to
Appeal" section of RFC 2050's Section 6.  The document would also
provide pointers to previously published documents regarding the
procedures under which the ICANN Address Council and Address Supporting
Organizations work.  These pointers may include documents that define
the relationship between the AC, ASO and the RIRs.