Re: [dns-wg] DNS Meeting in Amsterdam in September

[Patrik Fältström <]

On torsdag, jul 17, 2003, at 21:02 Europe/Stockholm, Patrik Fältström 
wrote:

> On torsdag, jul 17, 2003, at 15:01 Europe/Stockholm, Daniel Karrenberg 
> wrote:
>
> > I would like to have approx 30 minutes to present the pages
> > at dnsmon.ripe.net which will by then be in beta test moving to
> > production.
> Ack.
>
> Do you have any proposal what "deliverables" this can lead to? What 
> can the conclusions be? Recommendations on how/where to build DNS 
> servers, or a document on "trying to measure quality in these ways 
> does NOT reflect real world"?
>
> I.e. can we turn this recurrent presentation into some more general 
> task for the wg?
He he he...at last I managed to stir up some dust.

Let me clarify something in the text above. Just like Daniel has 
pointed out several times in all of his presentations, what Daniel 
tests is still only the quality of each one of the servers as viewed 
from the measuring points. It is extremely unclear what conclusions can 
be made (if any) about the DNS *SERVICE* which the servers deliver 
together to a random user on the Internet.

So, a proposed task might be for this wg is to look at the tool 
created, and many many other reports (including maybe the report 
Richard delivered at the last EOF about full service resolver 
behaviour), and deliver a paper which says _how_ to evaluate where DNS 
servers should be located.

People argue all the time what is "the best" location of servers.

Could this not be a good discussion? (It seems to be a good discussion 
point... ;-)

Any takers on being token holder for this "task"?

    paf