From pk at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE  Sun Jan 21 17:46:44 2001
From: pk at TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE (Peter Koch)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:46:44 +0100
Subject: New version of "server setup guide" posted
Message-ID: <200101211646.RAA19899@grimsvotn.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>


Dear fellow WG members,

I have just submitted a new version of the "very long" document (the last in
our trilogy) to the Internet Drafts archive.
The name will be draft-koch-ripe-dns-setup-guide-01.txt. Please note that
the version currrently available with that name is only the expiration
notice for the "00" version submitted last February.
Until the document will have shown up at the ID-archive and its mirrors you'll
find a copy with this URL:

http://www.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE/~pk/dns/draft-koch-ripe-dns-setup-guide-01.txt.gz

Changes are mostly editorial and filling some gaps (those marked TBD earlier).
I have now put in some words about IPv6, DNSSEC and IDN. The first three
sections should be complete now, some text is still missing for the
reverse mapping and 'popular mistakes' sections.

What I'd like to discuss next week (if there's a time slot available):

o Status of and further roadmap for the document

  Especially in the light of DNSSEC and, even more, IDN, it seems a bit
  difficult to prepare a single, fixed document to inform the target
  audience. A living document, i.e. a ``web site'' would be better and
  more up to date - if there's someone/somegroup periodically taking care.
  I think the IETF's experience with the "weird" wg teach some lesson here.
  On the other hand, just pointing everyone to the DNS resources directory
  and the IETF to find ``everything'' is not a helpful advice IMHO.

o How to perform the "Grandma test"?

  Should we decide to go on with this document it should be exposed to some
  target audience people and *feedback* be collected and reported.
  Volunteers?

Here are two further suggestions for the agenda:

o Review of RIPE 203

  Has anyone successfully referred customers to this document?
  Are their any changes suggested/needed?

o DNS traffic and ~ distribution

  Does anyone have recent data on what percentage of backbone traffic is
  DNS traffic and how this DNS share is split between e.g. RR types?

-Peter