From markd at ripe.net Wed Jan 5 16:13:40 2011 From: markd at ripe.net (Mark Dranse) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:13:40 +0100 Subject: [dns-wg] RIPE NCC to Discontinue Hostcount Message-ID: <4D248AA4.3060602@ripe.net> [Apologies for duplicates] Dear colleagues, For the past 20 years, the RIPE NCC has maintained Hostcount, a measurement of the number Address Resource Records (A RRs) in country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) in the RIPE NCC service region. The aim of this project has been to gain insight into the size and the growth rate of the Internet. It has been clear for some time though, that Hostcount no longer provides a reliable indication of these things. Therefore, as of January 2011, the RIPE NCC will discontinue Hostcount. More background information on this project and its closure can be found on RIPE Labs: http://labs.ripe.net/Members/markd/hostcount Kind Regards, Mark Dranse Information Services Manager, RIPE NCC From jim at rfc1035.com Fri Jan 7 16:25:46 2011 From: jim at rfc1035.com (Jim Reid) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:25:46 +0000 Subject: [dns-wg] RIPE 61 draft minutes Message-ID: <20A8883E-2739-4307-A86E-F97E5761BB61@rfc1035.com> Colleagues, a belated happy new year to you all and best wishes for 2011. Here are the draft minutes from the Rome meeting. Please let me know if there are any errors, inaccuracies or omissions. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: minutes.txt URL: -------------- next part -------------- From kzorba at otenet.gr Sat Jan 8 12:28:39 2011 From: kzorba at otenet.gr (kzorba at otenet.gr) Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:28:39 +0200 Subject: [dns-wg] RIPE 61 draft minutes In-Reply-To: <20A8883E-2739-4307-A86E-F97E5761BB61@rfc1035.com> References: <20A8883E-2739-4307-A86E-F97E5761BB61@rfc1035.com> Message-ID: <20110108132839.1022192odc1em63r@noc.otenet.gr> Quoting Jim Reid : > Colleagues, a belated happy new year to you all and best wishes for 2011. > Hi Jim, best wishes to everyone as well. > Here are the draft minutes from the Rome meeting. Please let me know > if there are any errors, inaccuracies or omissions. > A few minor points to mention, i the Reverse DNS Considerations for IPv6 section: - apart from Dave's mention of IRC as one application that mainly uses reverse DNS, one other I mentioned is eMail, with rDNS used in policies by mail admins - "On the subject of if putting a period between each HEX character would scale, Kostas said he had seen this happen in practice. Both speakers agreed that this all comes down to cost." I remember this conversation as a question I posed about whether a distributed rDNS large scale setup was used in practice by any Provider, using also Dynamic DNS updates and if this would scale. The audience co-speaker said that it would certainly scale since distribution is an essential DNS feature, but of course I also implied the operational costs involved and I guess we agreed. Regards, Kostas Zorbadelos