RIPE 42

DNS Working Group Agenda

The DNS Working Group session will be held on Thursday, 2 May 2002 from 09.00-12.30.

Draft Agenda for RIPE 42
Chair: Jim Reid

A. Welcome and Agenda Bashing - Jim Reid (5 minutes)

B. IETF Reports

DNSEXT & DNSOPS
Lars-Johan Liman, Autonomica (10 minutes)
IDN & ENUM
Patrik Faltstrom, Cisco (10 minutes)
DNSSEC: DS & Opt-in
Roy Arends, Nominum (20 minutes)

C. Documentation

Using SRV records to locate Whois servers
Marcos Sanz, DENIC (15 minutes)

D1. Invited Talk 1

DNS Damage: Measurements at a Root Server
kc claffy, CIADA (30 minutes)

An analysis of the DNS traffic at f.root-servers.net

Coffee Break (30 minutes)

D2. Invited Talk 2

Authoritative Servers: specifics, problems and techniques
Alexis Yushin, NLNet Labs (35 minutes)

D3. Invited Talk 3

A Comparison of Answers and Performance beween NSD and other DNS Server
Implementations
Daniel Karrenberg, RIPE NCC (35 minutes)

This presents the results of extensive testing work performed
during the validation and tuning of NSD. It compares the
answers of various implementations to DNS queries observed in
actual Internet operations at a root server and a number of
TLD servers. The talk describes and classifies notable
differences in the answers observed and gives an overview on
the responsiveness of various implementations under different
load conditions.

E. WG Administrivia (15 minutes)

Z.AOB (5 minutes)

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