Domain Name System Operations (dnsop)

Last Modified: 2006-09-28

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Chair(s):

  • Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>

  • Peter Koch <pk@ISOC.DE>

    Operations and Management Area Director(s):

  • Dan Romascanu <dromasca@avaya.com>
  • David Kessens <david.kessens@nokia.com>

    Operations and Management Area Advisor:

  • David Kessens <david.kessens@nokia.com>

    Mailing Lists:

    General Discussion: dnsop@lists.uoregon.edu
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    Archive: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/dnsop/

    Description of Working Group:

    The DNS Operations Working Group will develop guidelines for the
    operation of DNS software servers and the administration of DNS zone
    files. These guidelines will provide technical information
    relating to the implementation of the DNS protocol by the
    operators and administrators of DNS zones. The group will
    perform the following activities:

    1. Define the processes by which Domain Name System (DNS) software
          may be efficiently and correctly administered, configured, and
          operated on Internet networks. This will include root zone
          name servers, gTLD name servers, name servers for other DNS
          zones, iterative DNS resolvers, and recursive DNS resolvers.
          As part of this effort, the group will produce documents
          explaining to the general Internet community what processes
          and mechanisms should be employed for the effective management
          and operation of DNS software.

    2. Publish documents concerning DNSSEC operational procedures.

    3. Publish documents concerning the IPv6 DNS operational
          procedures and DNS-related IPv6 transition and coexistence
          issues.

    4. Publish documents concerning the operations of the root and
          TLD services, and DNS resolvers.

    Goals and Milestones:

    Done  Submit I-D: revised Root Server Requirements.
    Done  Submit I-D: revised version of Key Handling.
    Done  Submit I-D: first version of Servers Sharing IP#.
    Done  Submit I-D: first version of Performance and Measuring.
    Done  Submit I-D: revised version of Key Handling.
    Done  Submit I-D: revised version of Servers Sharing IP#.
    Done  Submit Root Server Requirements to the IESG for consideration as Informational (BCP?).
    Done  Submit I-D: 2nd revised version of Servers Sharing IP#.
    Done  Distributing Authoritative Name Servers via Shared Unicast Addresses to the IESG for Informational
    Done  Submit Observed DNS Resolution Misbehavior to the IESG for Informational
    Done  Submit document describing the outstanding problems and issues with DNS discovery for IPv6 to the IESG for Informational.
    Done  Submit Operational Guidelines for 'local' zones in the DNS to IESG. Category to be determined.
    Done  Submit Operational Considerations and Issues with IPv6 DNS to the IESG for Informational
    Done  Submit Common Misbehavior against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses to the IESG for Informational
    Done  Submit DNSSEC Operational Procedures to IESG for BCP
    Aug 2006  Submit Identifying an Authoritative Name Server to IESG for Informational
    Sep 2006  Submit I-D: revised version of Encouraging DNS IN-ADDR Mapping
    Oct 2006  Submit DNS Response Size Issues to IESG for Informational
    Nov 2006  Submit I-D: revised version of Encouraging DNS IN-ADDR Mapping
    Feb 2007  Submit Encouraging DNS IN-ADDR Mapping to IESG for BCP

    Internet-Drafts:

    Requirements for a Mechanism Identifying a Name Server Instance (19218 bytes)
    DNS Referral Response Size Issues (25615 bytes)
    Preventing Use of Recursive Nameservers in Reflector Attacks (14955 bytes)
    Locally-served Zones (17143 bytes)
    Considerations for the use of DNS Reverse Mapping (20212 bytes)

    Request For Comments:

    Root Name Server Operational Requirements (RFC 2870) (21133 bytes) obsoletes RFC 2010
    Distributing Authorittative Name Servers via Shared Unicast Addresses (RFC 3258) (22195 bytes)
    DNS IPv6 transport operational guidelines (RFC 3901) (10025 bytes)
    Common Misbehavior against DNS Queries for IPv6 Addresses (RFC 4074) (13073 bytes)
    IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches (RFC 4339) (60803 bytes)
    Operational Considerations and Issues with IPv6 DNS (RFC 4472) (68882 bytes)
    DNSSEC Operational Practices (RFC 4641) (79894 bytes) obsoletes RFC 2541
    Observed DNS Resolution Misbehavior (RFC 4697) (45187 bytes)
    IETF Secretariat - Please send questions, comments, and/or suggestions to ietf-web@ietf.org.

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