New draft charter for the RIPE DNS WG

At 01:07 PM 7/11/02 +0100, Niall Richard Murphy wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 05:14:29PM +0200, Peter Koch wrote:
>
>Folks,
>
> >      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.
>
>All good. Perhaps some people would complain that "best" should be prefixed
>to "current practice", but I'm not one of those people :-)

Not to borrow too much from RIPE's (dis)functional distant cousin, IETF,
but it would generally make sense to have a WG enumerate, through consensus,
what the relevant "current practice" is before declaring, as a WG, what the
"best current practice" is.  If of course that's something the WG wishes to 
address.

DNS timeouts might be the wrong topic.  How within the RIPE community you
address the issue of TLD's dropping off the internet transiently, from 
odd-numbered
counties within the UK, like .to did last night, might be relevant.