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[sig-dns] The IETF is ongoing this week
For those tuned to this mailing list, here is an update on events
impacting the DNS.
Starting on last Sunday and continuing until Friday is the 68th
meeting of the IETF in Prague, Czech Republic. For those interesting
in trying to find a way to listen or watch remotely, here is a link
to try http://videolab.uoregon.edu/events/ietf/. The IETF is a
global meeting of Internet engineers to work on tasks that build,
enhance, and determine operational practices for anything involving
the IP protocol.
So far there have been two DNS related sessions, apologies for not
sending this earlier. One is the ENUM WG and the other is DNSOP.
The latter covers operational but not protocol work in DNS. Coming
up on Wednesday is the DNSEXT WG session, which is chartered to cover
protocol design work.
The ENUM WG is in a state of potentially ending it's mission. There
is some work to add the kinds of data in an ENUM database but the
most important work is the development of instructions for extending
ENUM after the WG ends.
Perhaps I should explain a little about IETF WGs. A WG in the IETF
is not a permanent committee, a WG is supposed to be organized to
accomplish an engineering mission. Once the engineering is done the
WG disbands and the operation of the protocol moves elsewhere. In
most cases, this means an IANA run registry is created, with
instructions to IANA being a major deliverable.
The DNSOP WG is an ongoing effort to create documents covering the
problems with running a DNS service properly. There is on document I
would like to call this group's attention to:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnsop-reverse-mapping-considerations-02.txt
Upcoming is the DNSEXT WG meeting. This group was formed in the late
90's to cover extensions like DNSSEC. As much as DNSSEC is still
waiting to see deployment, the engineering work over it is pretty
much finished. A sign that this WG may be ready to conclude is that
one of the active documents is designed to give instructions to IANA
on how to assign new type codes.
At the meeting an anticipated discussion is whether the DNS protocol
is "complete." There are features of DNS that are desired, but these
features may not be possible with the current DNS design.
My one action item for the group is - if you have any protocol
concerns you would like voiced here this week, feel free to let me
know and I will see what I can do. This is the week to speak up
about DNS engineering and get feedback from a world-wide body of
experts.
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