Re: [DNSOP] meta issue: WG to discuss DNS innovation (was Re: draft-hzhwm-start-tls-for-dns-00)

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Feb 17, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Why shouldn't that work go on in the WGs that want the innovations in
> question?  Why shouldn't people who know about the DNS involve
> themselves in the protocols that want to use these innovations so
> that, instead of being Defenders of the Protocol Faith, they are
> engineers trying to solve practical engineering problems that others
> have, but in a way consistent with the deployed architecture?

Sure.   If dnsop wants to do this work, that's fine.

As for the dysfunction of the dnsext working group, I agreed to close it because as an incoming AD I wasn't entirely clear on what to do when the chairs requested that it be closed.   If I had it to do over, I would probably instead have solicited new chairs and tried to fix the dysfunction, which I agree existed there.

Unfortunately, the dysfunction will arise wherever DNS improvements are suggested, so not trying to fix it is not an option.   And of course I realize that many good IETF contributors have been ground to a nubbin trying to fix the aforementioned dysfunction, and have no particular reason to think I would have been more able to fix it than my predecessors.