New draft charter for the RIPE DNS WG

I would just like to remind all that the more RIPE/NCC get diversified in
their focus, the less gets done in the areas that realy matter to us. I am
not disagreeing with the outline i just feel we need to evaluate how much of
what is discussed at the meetings is IP relavent. We can not complain at the
NCC about high wait times on requests if we the community are distracting
the NCC with none core function projects and fact finding.

Regards,

Stephen Burley
WorldCom EMEA Hostmaster
SB855-RIPE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Thayer" <rodney at declarator.net>
To: <dns-wg at ripe.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: 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is a bit out of date and no longer really accurate: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
>