[cooperation-wg] Initial Draft: RIPE Community IANA Stewardship Proposal

Hi,
To get the discussion going on the principles outlined below, I have 
added my comments and is eager to see feedback from others,
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> RIPE Community IANA Stewardship Proposal [DRAFT]
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> The RIPE community asks the RIPE NCC to work with the other RIRs to produce a common proposal for a legally binding agreement (such as a Service Level Agreement) between ICANN and the RIRs to replace the Internet number-related elements of the ICANN-NTIA agreement.

I think this makes sense. It is important that the numbering community 
comes up with one joint proposal.
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> This proposal should meet the requirements of the Request For Proposals (RFP) produced by the IANA Stewardship Transistion Coordination Group (ICG).
That is wise. Even more important is that it meets the requirements from 
the US governments.
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> The proposal should bring the provisions of the agreement related to the services and service levels up-to-date with current requirements where necessary.
This is perhaps the bulk of the job. Without the US Governemet IANA 
contract - what provisions needs to be taken into the RIR-IANA 
agreements directly.
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> This work should be coordinated with the other users of the IANA function as much as practical, with the aim of producing a proposed arrangement that is compatible with the proposed arrangements of the other IANA users.
There has been a discussion on the IETF list on separability of IANA 
functions. As IP addresses is a protocol parameter that seems natural, 
but may not be a hard requirement. Coordination is good as long as we 
produce a good proposal that serves our community and internet users in 
general with regards to number resources.
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> The RIPE community asks the RIPE NCC and the other RIRs keep it informed about progress and content of the proposal.
This is very important.
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> The RIPE community asks the RIPE NCC to complete the proposal and to submit it to the ICG before January 15th 2015.

Sounds like a reasonable requirement.

I think one of the important principles we should add is that the 
proposal should build on our existing framework and governance structure 
as described in https://www.nro.net/about-the-nro/rir-governance-matrix 
for the RIPE NCC.

Hans Petter


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