New draft charter for the RIPE DNS WG

That sounds fine, except the WG also discusses operational
and procedural issues, for example how to sign zones.

How about, as a replacement sentence...


   "The WG also discusses DNS software implementations, especially security
   and scalability aspects as well as performance, interoperability, and
   operational procedures needed by newly developed and deployed DNS features."

That covers new things for DNSSEC whilst being general.

At 05:14 PM 7/10/02 +0200, Peter Koch wrote:

>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is a bit out of date and no longer really accurate: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