DNS IXFR, Notification, and Dynamic Update (dnsind) Charter
NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 37th IETF Meeting in San Jose. It
may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working
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Chair(s)
- Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Internet Area Director(s):
- Frank Kastenholz <kasten@ftp.com>
- Jeffrey Burgan <jburgan@baynetworks.com>
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Description of Working Group
The DNS Incremental Transfer, Notification, and Dynamic Update Working
Group is concerned with three areas of future DNS protocol
development:
1. Incremental Zone Transfer - As the sizes of some zone files have grown
quite large, it is believed that a protocol addition to allow the
transfer of only the changed subset of a zone will reduce net traffic
and the load on critical servers.
2. Change Notification - There can be large time intervals during which
at least one secondary has data that is inconsistent with the primary.
The proposed ``notify'' mechanism (where the primary sends a message
to known secondaries) facilitates fast convergence of servers
vis-a-vis consistency of data in the zones.
3. Dynamic Update - The need to frequently update small portions of a
large zone and to have those updates propagate is perceived.
Goals and Milestones
- Done
- Consolidated review of draft-ietf-dns-ixfr-01.txt.
- Done
- Submit Incremental Transfer and Notify Internet-Drafts.
- Done
- Submit revised Incremental Transfer and Notify Internet-Drafts.
- Apr 96
- Submit Dynamic Update, Incremental Transfer, and Notify Internet-Drafts to the IESG for consideration as Proposed Standards.
Current Internet-Drafts
Request for Comments