Re: New draft charter for the RIPE DNS WG

[Brad Knowles <]

At 5:14 PM +0200 2002/07/10, Peter Koch wrote:

>  Jim and I have discussed this and we thought the charter should be adjusted
>  to better reflect what the WG has been dealing with during the past couple
>  of meetings and is going to do in the near future.
	I think that you've come up with a much better charter for this group.

	Out of curiosity, do you think that the group should also help 
sponsor the development of open source tools to help monitor 
DNS-related issues, or evaluate DNS-related tools (either open source 
or commercial)?


	I ask because I am the current maintainer for "doc" (a DNS 
debugging tool) and I am (theoretically) also a co-maintainer for 
dnswalk (another DNS debugging tool).  I say theoretically because I 
have not yet started to actively work with the dnswalk code, and I 
don't think that Dave Barr has done anything with it since moving the 
project to SourceForge.

	If I could get some sponsorship for some work like this, that 
would help me justify to my employer my work in this field, and would 
help me deliver improved tools to the community.


	In addition, I am aware of some upcoming commercial tools that I 
think that at least some DNS WG members might be interested in.  What 
about inviting spokespeople from the respective companies to attend 
future meetings, and perhaps get involved with the DNS WG (if they 
are not already)?

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