DNS Working Group Draft Agenda

A. Administrative Matters

• Minutes of last meeting
• Agenda bashing

B. Action Points from RIPE 48 & RIPE 49

• 48.1 - Dealing with Large-scale Lameness
  Peter Koch, DeNIC (10 mins)
• 48.2 - AXFR integrity checks
  Mans Nilsson, KTH (10 mins)
• 48.4 - AAAA Resolution Issues
  David Malone, Trinity College Dublin (5 mins)
• 49.1 - Hostcount Requirements
  Peter Koch, DeNIC (5 mins)
• 49.2 - DNS Migration document
  Fernando Garcia, Eurocommercial (5 mins)
• 49.3 - Sitefinder Update
  Jaap Akkerhuis, NLnetLabs (15 mins)
• 49.? - Anycast Placement for K
  Andrei Robachevsky, RIPE NCC (5 mins)

C. IETF Updates

• DNSEXT
  Olaf Kolkman, RIPE NCC
• DNSOP
  Lars-Johan Liman, Autonomica

D. DNSSEC and .se
Jakob Schlyter, rfc.se

An update on the status of NIC-SE's plans for deploying DNSSEC

E. NCC News
Changes to reverse DNS
Olaf Kolkman, RIPE NCC

This presentation will cover the changes in the RIPE NCC's server set-up; the update to the delegation checker and an update of the DNSSEC deployment plans.

Sessions Two

F. BIND News
João Damas, ISC

BIND 9.3 & 9.4 news
Recent BIND 8 & 4 advisory (explanation)
BIND Forum meeting at IETF 63
New anycast F-root nodes

G. LDAP Back-End For BIND9
Stig Venaas, Uninett

An overview of an LDAP back-end for BIND9, the LDAP schema used and related tools.

H. Using In-Bailiwick Nameservers in .ARPA:
Improving Reverse DNS Lookup Performance
Masato Minda, JPRS

In June 2004, the JP TLD carried out a change in handling of the way glue records. Although this change was technically correct, some domains encountered difficulties in name resolution.

This presentation explains the problem with old BIND implementations and suggests recommended way to configure nameservers in .ARPA domain. This configuration of DNS will improve reverse DNS lookup performance.

I. Metrics for DNS Infrastructure
Suzanne Woolf, ISC

An update on OARC research to characterize DNS activity at the root and TLD levels, including a brief demo of query analysis with DNS Stats Collector and a preliminary look at stability metrics.

J. Dynamic Zone File Updates in .uk (20 mins)
Jay Daley, Nominet

A run-through of how we implemented dynamic updates for the .uk ccTLD, the problems we overcame on the way and how it works now.

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Z. AOB

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