[DNSOP] Re: Mahesh Jethanandani's Block on charter-ietf-dnsop-04-00: (with BLOCK and COMMENT)

[Jim Reid <[e-mail]>]

> On 25 Jun 2025, at 21:39, Mahesh Jethanandani via Datatracker <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> "DNSOP", paragraph 0
>> The DNSOP WG is also responsible for maintenance, updates, and extensions to
>> the DNS protocol.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer to the email that describes the sentiment behind why the
> WG is undergoing a recharter. In that sentiment is the desire to split the WG
> to move some of the protocol work out to another WG while keeping the focus of
> this WG on operations. How does the above statement jive with that sentiment?

The dnsop WG is pretty much the only place to do DNS protocol work until that new WG gets formed. Which means protocol work has to be in scope for dnsop until that happens. Once that new WG is created, we drop the above sentence from the dnsop charter: one quick, clean tweak. dnsop would then just be responsible operational stuff and the new WG takes charge of development and maintenance of the DNS protocol.

> What are the milestones that have to be achieved before the split can happen?

I think this might have to wait until the deleg WG is just about done. It's probably a bad idea to have "too many" DNS WGs on the go at the same time. YMMV.