CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Paul Mockapetris/ ISI

Minutes:

The DNS WG met at PSC on thursday, and worked on three issues:

  1. Future deployment of root name servers.
     Several parties believe that a better allocation of root servers is
     possible.  A review of the current set suggests that while it is
     not time for a change yet, the end of the ARPANET suggests that
     more emphasis should be placed on locating root servers close to
     NSSes.
     In addition, political and technical sentiment for root name
     servers in Europe (and probably the Pacific as well) is growing.
     This could lead to unfortunate technical results since root servers
     see a lot of traffic and current algorithms could easily load
     proposed "fat pipes" to Europe.  The political results could be
     unfortunate if root servers were deployed unwisely in Europe.
     The issues here are complicated.  Paul Mockapetris promised to
     write a white paper on the subject.
  2. Domain debugging tools.
     A new tool, called DOC, was described.  DOC examines database
     associated with a particular zone and checks to see if it is set up
     correctly.  This involves a lot of use of DIG and some grinding on
     the results.
     A test group for the new DOC and DIG tools was formed, with a
     mailing list at DANDY@ISI.EDU. The tools will be released to the
     general public after a beta test period.
  3. New chair.
     Paul Mockapetris resigned as chair because of new duties.  Phil
     Almquist (Almquist@jessica.stanford.edu) agreed to take over.



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ATTENDEES

    Philip Almquist           almquist@jessica.stanford.edu
    Dave Borman               dab@cray.com
    David Burdelski           daveb@ftp.com
    Curtis Cox                zk0001@wnyos14.navy.mil
    Bruce Crabill             bruce@umdd.umd.edu
    Ella Gardner              epg@gateway.mitre.org
    Jack Hahn                 hahn@umd5.umd.edu
    Kathy Huber               khuber@bbn.com
    Steve Hubert              hubert@cac.washington.edu
    Brad Johnson              bradcj@osf.org
    Phil Karn                 Karn@Thumper.Bellcore.Com
    Yoni Malachi              yoni@cs.stanford.edu
    Paul Mockapetris          pvm@isi.edu
    Tod Pike                  tgp@sei.cmu.edu ?
    Tim Seaver                tas@mcnc.org
    Bob Stafford              stafford@fac.cis.temple.edu
    Thomas Swazuk             swazuk@fac.cis.temple.edu
    Edward Vielmeth           emv@math.lsa.umich.edu
    Linda Winkler             b32357@anlvm.ctd.anl.gov



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