Re: [nscp] Welcome (and proposed charter)

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 15 September 2010 15:30 UTC

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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:30:42 -0700
To: Jelte Jansen <jelte@isc.org>, nscp@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [nscp] Welcome (and proposed charter)
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At 11:28 AM +0200 9/15/10, Jelte Jansen wrote:
>Objective
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>Specify an interoperable mechanism to monitor, control and configure common
>functionality of DNS nameservers.

Probably the most common functionality is updating zone files. Is this in scope, out of scope, or not determined yet? There is clamoring for secure updating that is easier to configure and than SIG0 and its friends, and almost no one cares if this is done in the DNS protocol, so this WG might or might not be the right place for that.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium