RIPE Tools Working Group

Minutes from RIPE 45

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The Tools Working Group 
Wednesday 14 May, 14.00 - 15.00.

Draft Minutes v 1:

A. Administrative Matters:

  Chair:  Manuel Valente
  Scribe: Tiago Antao

  Participants list circulated
  Previous minutes approved
  Agenda maintained

  Rob Blokzijl (RB): There are working groups changes. LIR working group
split, there is a services group from that split that will probably include the
tools groug. It might make sense to end this group. Discussion on the
BOF. DNS presentations can go to the DNS group.



B. ZoneCheck II: a DNS zone checking tool
Stephane D'Alu, AFNIC
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-tools-zonecheck/

ZoneCheck II is a tool to check the correct configuration of DNS servers, as
  Zone configuration (DNS records, consistency between nameservers and flags),
Practical usage:
  Deciding the delegation on technical criteria
  Monitoring domain name or tls
  New version has among others support for IPv6, better interfaces and
    implementation of different policies)

An online demonstration of the web interface was done.

URL: http://zonecheck.nic.fr/v2

Manuel Valente(MV): You can try it here online

No questions



C. Whois Database Updates & Software Development
Denis Walker
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-tools-dbupdate/

The Architecture and Implementation of the new version of dbupdate
  was presented.

No questions.



D. LIR Portal Update
Manuel Valente
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-tools/

    * Public Key Infrastructure

Randy Bush(RB): Cannot plain html be used?
MV: Certificate generation is browser dependent, there is no standard.

    * Inetnum Allocation Updates

Ulrich Kiermayr(UK): Problems with allocation editors, crashes mozilla browsers
MV: Please send feedback to email address lirportal-feedback@ripe.net

    * Future Plans



E. Ongoing Tools Projects at RIPE NCC
Manuel Valente
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-45/presentations/ripe45-tools/
    * asused
    * new resource request forms

No questions.

Z. AOB

  There was no AOB