Re: [dd] Back to the charter

[Wes Hardaker <[e-mail]>]

Havard Eidnes <he=[e-mail]> writes:

>  * I get the impression this group is trying to solve more than one
>    problem (at least two?), but that those problems are not explicitly
>    stated and justified in the above paragraph.  I think the two main
>    ones are:
> 
>    - There is a desire to introduce other DNS transport protocols than
>      DNS-over-port-53 for the communication between recursive
>      resolvers and publishing name servers.  An important part of the
>      justification for this desire is to further protect the transport
>      of DNS queries against eavesdropping, since these queries have up
>      to now has been sent in the clear.  This is however basically
>      impossible to do without introducing "additional signalling"
>      about the capabilities of a publishing name server at a
>      delegation point.
> 
>    - There is a desire to better support outsourcing most if not all
>      aspects of DNS publishing operations to a third party, a "domain
>      operator", as distinct from the "domain holder" and the
>      "delegating zone operator", and to either reduce or eliminate the
>      need for out-of-band exchange of information between the "domain
>      operator" and the "delegating zone operator" which today possibly
>      involves the "domain holder".  The goal is that the "domain
>      holder" does not need to be involved in the various technical
>      changes for the delegation of the domain, such as the addition or
>      removal of publishing name servers, IP address changes for
>      publishing name servers and updates triggered by periodic DNSKEY
>      rollovers.
> 
>    Perhaps the slightly different problems to be solved and their
>    justification should be stated more explicitly?

I agree these are the two cases that there is immediate interest to work
on first.  Do you think your two cases above are missing?  The existing bullets already cover these two cases.

- A specification for how to use the new delegation information to perform aliasing of delegation information. This is expected to be published as a standards-track RFC.

- A specification for facilitating the use of additional transports for DNS. This is expected to be published as a standards-track RFC.

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Wes Hardaker
USC/ISI