New draft charter for the RIPE DNS WG

Dear DNS WG members,

the working group charter posted at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/dns/
is a bit out of date and no longer really accurate:

     The Domain Name System working group discusses current BIND versions.
     It is also concerned with potential pollution of the DNS and with domain
     name related issues. 

Jim and I have discussed this and we thought the charter should be adjusted
to better reflect what the WG has been dealing with during the past couple
of meetings and is going to do in the near future. Together with the meeting
agendas this may help (new) participants to decide whether to attend and
contribute ideas and questions. So, this is our suggestion for an updated
charter:

     The Domain Name System (DNS) working group discusses current DNS related
     issues in technology and operations. It supports deployment of newly
     developed DNS and DNS related protocol components by collecting
     experience and documenting current practice and recommendations.
     It is therefore also a feedback channel to the IETF.
     The WG also discusses DNS software implementations, especially security
     and scalability aspects as well as performance and interoperability.
     It does not try to ``support'' all these software products. Bugs in
     specific products are only discussed if they affect critical
     infrastructure or interoperability at a large scale (differential
     analysis).
     The DNS WG works as a contact for the Registry and Registrar community,
     watching DNS quality.
     It discusses registration policies only to the extent technical questions
     are concerned (e.g. pre delegation checks & quality control).

Please send comments to this list.

-Peter