Technical Committee Meeting Minutes 28/09/04

Attendees: Brendan Murray (Chair), David Harris, Rodney Prescott, Bill Parkin, Michael Sutton, Simon Riley, Don Stokes, Peter Macaulay, Gale Blikshavn (minutes)

Apologies: Keith Davidson

Welcome and Confirmation of Committee Structure

Peter gave a short demonstrated of the Mimio Electronic Whiteboard. Brendan welcomed everyone to the meeting and it was noted there was no objection to including Gale on the technical committee mailing list for posting of relevant communications.

Brendan noted he was comfortable with the size of the committee and welcomed Rodney on board. It was noted that no communication had been received from Nick Wallingford therefore it was decided not to include him on the committee. Action: GB Nick Wallingford to be removed from the tech committee mailing list. It was noted that John Russell had indicated interest in relation to IPv6 and no objection was raised therefore Michael Sutton nominated him to be part of theIPv6 working group and committee. Carried U

[ Since the meeting Nick has been back in touch. He had been out of email contact and had not been near his voice mail. He indicated a keeness and willingness to continue on Tech. He is back on board. Gale has been asked to add John Russell to the list. ]

Simon noted a need to confirm terms of reference. Action: BM Brendan to speak with Frank and Debbie about technical committee relationship with NZOC and DNC. Brendan moved to adopt terms of reference with some fine tuning prior to submitting to October Council meeting. Carried U

The committee structure of Brendan as Chair, David as Deputy Chair and Michael being responsible for ENUM, IPv6 and Multicast reporting was tabled. Carried U

NZCS Scholarship Modules

Peter updated the committee on the initiative where InternetNZ will provide funds to NZCS who will administer an Internet related scholarship for year 3 university or technical college undergraduates. After some discussion it was agreed six $1500 scholarships to support students studying internet networking technology and related subjects for the 2005/06 scholastic year. Applications to include a written submission. Technical committee will approve final selections after student presentation. Action: PM Peter to write a paragraph on the scholarship for NZCS to initiate.

Election Interface Specifications

It was agreed any releases should be open source and available on the website under "free downloads". Action PM Peter to ascertain the history of the election interface code whether we own it and provided we do then will [most likely] be a GPL licence, promote on the website and members announce.

SSL servers

It was noted the Certificate server is starting to produce high value multimedia certificates. There was some discussion and Action: DH David to put together an exploratory discussion paper laying down the pros and cons of InternetNZ being the CA for Council. Action DS/RP Don noted the next step was to complete a business case and Rodney volunteered to assist with this. Peter noted a previous action point to contact Komodo had been parked.

Meeting Schedule

It was agreed to aim for six meetings per year in between Council meetings and one workshop. Action: GB Gale to schedule, and provide template for workplan. Noted that the January meeting be held around NZNOG at Waikato University.

Investigation of new spyware - positioning paper

David noted further clarification from Exec was needed to ascertain specific requirements of such a paper but that he was happy to write it once specifics were available.

Pgp/Gnupg for Councilors /Committees

After some discussion on the pros and cons Action:BM Brendan to prepare paper on signing of public statements and wider issues pertaining. It was noted by Simon it's an end user issue whether it will be used, if it doesn't reward the user then people won't use the site.

Video Conferencing

Michael was still waiting for the non-commercial licence to appear. He noted that everyone would have to run Java and it required a BT piece of software to convert multicast into unicast and he was waiting for it to be released to us. Currently we are using public domain software. Peter was informed RAT (video) and VIC (audio) would be used.

DNSsec

Peter noted can't go anywhere with it at the moment. Don updated the committee that there was no solution to walk-through expected in the near future. Action: BM Brendan to note to Council that Tech Committee will keep a watching brief on DNSsec.

Travel Fund

It was agreed that any travel fund applications will only be accepted from members of InternetNZ. It was agreed to request $5k for this financial year to be allocated for those putting NZ perspective either by way of presentations or panel attendance. Brendan noted events in Australia worth attending. Simon noted need to start to prepare for next year and nominating an NZNOG speaker and contributing to cost may enable speaker to engage in other initiatives whilst here.

Internet Innovation Fund

Noted this fund is for supporting internet community in pilot type projects and Tech committee would seek approval in principle from Council for $20k over next financial year Action: RP/SR Rodney and Simon to prepare business case for Innovation Fund. The fund would be announced at NZNOG and Rodney was voted to be NOG Relationship Manager. He noted potential conflict of interest with WISPs but this was not seen as a conflict by the committee. The Relationship Manager is responsible for contact details, getting InternetNZ speaker in right place at right time and connect with Citylink for webcast. Envisaged speaker would only need 10mins at NOG to speak to Fund.

Wildcard DNS Entries

Agreed this was not an acceptable practice for NZ, Don noted there are good technical assessments of it and that it breaks end to end. Action BM Brendan to write crib card for Peter Dengate-Thrush on DNS Entries.

General Business

Interop Lab

Brendan noted Keith had stated project now operational. Peter related that components of it needed to be cleared by Technical Committee and Simon suggested that Tech Committee could take ownership of the technical stream. Peter suggested he do dual reporting to both Exec and Tech committees.

There was a query why the lab was in Canterbury and noted there had been no bites from Waikato and Canterbury had expressed interest, plus there was more of a technical community in Canterbury.

Peter suggested that Michael attend next meeting in Christchurch to represent Technical committee and meet with Ray Hunt.

Simon noted he was happy to draft a proposal for $5k funding for "TechNZ".

IPv6 gateway access was discussed. Noted Telecom networking had made reaching gateway impossible. Michael suggested setting up an external pipe for telco or set up our own gateway. Action: PM Peter to engage with Citylink/Telecom to advise what they need to do re gateway access, Action: MS Michael to supply wording. Action: PM Peter to discuss closing funding for testbed with Citylink. Action: MS Michael to obtain printout of gateway traffic, meet with Andy Linton and provide debrief to Tech committee.

ENUM

The list had been set up and meeting with Catalyst completed, they are willing to support the process inside corporate time as appropriate. Next steps were to populate the list.

Technical Library

Noted this initiative a good one to go ahead, for members only and the Secretariat to administer. The Uniforum library may be made available to incorporate. Also noted that electronic versions i.e. safari licence be investigated Action: GB contact O'Reilly publishers about Safari and possible sponsorship.

Singapore IPv6

We had received some information about an IPV6 Applications conference in Singapore. At first glance it seemed interesting, but then it looks more like how IPV6 might be applied to 'things' more than what we would consider 'applications Action: RP Rodney to investigate further.

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