[dnsext] 2 new drafts relevant to DNS-EXT

DNS-EXT members,

   We have recently submitted two internet drafts for review at the Paris IETF meeting.  

   The first document, "draft-gersch-dnsop-revdns-cidr-01" describes a reverse-DNS naming method to specify CIDR address blocks.  We will be presenting this proposal, its motivation and its purpose at the DNS-OP session on Friday, March 30.

  The second document, "draft-gersch-grow-revdns-bgp-00" was also submitted.  It describes two new DNS record types that can be used to specify BGP route origins in the reverse DNS.  It uses the domain naming method described earlier.   We will be presenting this at the GROW session on Friday, March 30, and possibly at the SIDR session on Wednesday, March 28 as well.

  Although neither of these drafts were directly submitted to DNS-EXT, they do propose a DNS naming convention and new DNS record types that could benefit from the expert review by the members in DNS-EXT.  We encourage you to review these internet drafts  and to submit comments to the DNS-EXT mailing list.  

  If you want to know more about the use of the names and record types, a live testbed is available at the web site "rover.secure64.com".  This web site contains various documents and slide sets explaining the BGP publishing and verification methods, as well as the testbed itself with over 390,000 routes published in an in-addr.arpa shadow zone.  You can submit your own BGP data into the shadow zones if you wish.   The web site also lets you perform queries to verify the origin authenticity of a BGP announcement.
If anyone wants a demo of the testbed during the IETF week, we will be happy to show how it works; or you can simply create an account and try it out for yourself at any time.

 Thanks,

Joseph Gersch
Dan Massey
Eric Osterweil
Lixia Zhang