Numerical Address Space Management Team
June 12, 2002 Meeting
10am-1am EST

Agenda: Preparation for Hierarchy Release

Attending:
Egon Verharen
Bert Andree
Megan Crabb
Tim Poe
Tyler Johnson

Discussion
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1. Release schedule at
http://www.unc.edu/video/videnet/version_3/release_schedule.html was
approved.

2. It was decided that each NASM member will have an account on each
global gatekeeper. The world will be divided by time zone. For example,
North, South and Central America would be managed by Tyler and Megan. If
Brazil requests connection to the hierarchy, Megan or Tyler would enter
that information not only in the US global root, but also in the
European and Australian global roots. Semaphores in the RADVISION
prevent data sync problems. MCM operation is an open question.

3. Policy on National Gatekeepers. It was decided that in the event that
a country could not host its own national gatekeeper, it may be
sponsored by another national gatekeeper. Thus, policy on surrogate
hosting will be made by the individual host. NASM will not provide this
service at the root level. Hosting might be divided along the same map
that Egon provides for NASM areas of responsibility.

4. Policy. The current policy of NASM addressing decisions being final
stands as is on the NASM website. We need to develop and publish more
policy in general.

5. Megan and Egon are available for the 1st brown bag munch.

Action Items
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1. Egon will find and mark up a world map denoting areas of
responsibility. Please forward to ViDeNet webmaster to post on NASM web
page.

2. Tyler will contact Victor Reijs about hosting the ECS global root for
Europe as Steve Williams seemed to indicate he may not provide this service.

3. Tyler will forward configs to Megan Crabb for OSU US root.

4. Tyler will create initial zones for the hierarchy using the ViDeNet
tool. Other NASM members will be added as they get their accounts.