Re: [dd] starting charter text for the DELEG BOF discussion

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024, Ralf Weber wrote:

>> To address these challenges, the working group will first develop the requirements for adding a new signaling mechanism that allows parents to return DNS delegation information to resolvers.
>
> Given that there is current work on actual protocol ideas that would stall that. I’m ok with a requirements document and changing the spec, but I don’t want to stall that work, so maybe delete “first” from that sentence.

What I would like to avoid see happening is that people have expectations
and desires for a solution expressed in the requirements doc that are
not covered by DELEG, and getting told "we cannot change it anymore,
it is too late".

A new WG still has a bunch of fundamental questions to answer, such as
whether to overload the DS or not, whether to create generic RRtypes
that resolve at the parent, and whether a new delegation type would
augment or obsolete NS/DS records, and whether nameserver properties
should be stored at the nameserver zone or the delegation of the
target zone.

So the phrase "stall the work" seems inaccurate. We are doing the work,
but the work is more than just finishing one currently proposed draft.

Paul