[dns-dir] proposed agenda for Maastricht dns-dir meeting
Peter Koch <pk@DENIC.DE> Thu, 22 July 2010 18:36 UTC
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Subject: [dns-dir] proposed agenda for Maastricht dns-dir meeting
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Dear members of the DNS Directorate, this is a proposed agenda for the upcoming DNS Directorate Meeting in Maastricht. It is composed of two parts, one focussing on progress, the other on an architectural question. Looking back a couple of months, there has not been much activity on the list and both the attempts to schedule face-to-face meetings at IETFs as well as holding in-between conference calls have not been too successful. There have been several automatic submissions from Olafur's "EW" system and also some requests for review forwarded to the dns-dir list, with little response in total. This suggests that the DNS directorate is not contributing to the document quality in a way it was supposed to and we should try to examine whether the Directorate works in a way the responsible ADs would like it to. One observation is that key personnel in the DNS community has, over the last maybe 9 months, been extremely bound by DNS related dayjob duties, which is both reflected by actual progress at the DNSSEC front at the root and elsewhere, but also by the lower presence or contribution level on working group mailing lists. This may or may not change over the upcoming months. Another observation is that with DNSSEC going production and with IDN TLDs in the root as well as IPv6 around the corner, the core protocol and recent extensions are done or about done, open work items in both DNSEXT and DNSOP nonwithstanding. What remains is the use of the DNS in other working groups, but again with several building blocks available (see RFC 5507 for examples), this might not be a bigger issue. Patrik's posting earlier today (see below for a link) as well as the experience of individual directorate members working in non-DNS WGs might suggest otherwise, but that is a separate topic. It is probably time to review the role of the DNS Directorate as a whole and the role of the individual members and here are three potential ways forward: 1) Close the DNS Directorate as moribund 2) Expand the membership of the DNS Directorate to be something more like a committed review pool, like secdir, OPS-DIR or GenART; this would basicly respond to ADs' requests for DNS specific reviews in I-Ds on or before the IESG's agenda 3) Expand the directorate like (2), but also address pro-actively architectural issues (see above) and advice to WGs where asked for The other topic for the agenda is the re-occuring issue of "service discovery" and "service location" through the DNS and - tied to that - the continuous re-invention of (sometimes badly shaped) wheels, as touched in <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg01614.html>, but addressing this makes more sense after a discussion about the meta issue. Andrew & Peter