Domain Name System Operations (dnsop)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 2005-11-08

 Current Status: Active Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Rob Austein  <sra@hactrn.net>
     Peter Koch  <pk@ISOC.DE>

 Operations and Management Area Director(s):
     Dan Romascanu  <dromasca@avaya.com>
     David Kessens  <david.kessens@nokia.com>

 Operations and Management Area Advisor:
     David Kessens  <david.kessens@nokia.com>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:dnsop@lists.uoregon.edu
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     Archive:           http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~llynch/dnsop/

Description of Working Group:

The DNS Operations Working Group will develop guidelines for the
 operation of DNS software servers and the administration of DNS zone
 files. These guidelines will provide technical information
 relating to the implementation of the DNS protocol by the
 operators and administrators of DNS zones. The group will
 perform the following activities: 

 1. Define the processes by which Domain Name System (DNS) software
       may be efficiently and correctly administered, configured, and
       operated on Internet networks. This will include root zone
       name servers, gTLD name servers, name servers for other DNS
       zones, iterative DNS resolvers, and recursive DNS resolvers.
       As part of this effort, the group will produce documents
       explaining to the general Internet community what processes
       and mechanisms should be employed for the effective management
       and operation of DNS software. 

 2. Publish documents concerning DNSSEC operational procedures. 

 3. Publish documents concerning the IPv6 DNS operational
       procedures and DNS-related IPv6 transition and coexistence
       issues. 

 4. Publish documents concerning the operations of the root and
       TLD services, and DNS resolvers.

 Goals and Milestones:

   Done         Submit I-D: revised Root Server Requirements. 

   Done         Submit I-D: revised version of Key Handling. 

   Done         Submit I-D: first version of Servers Sharing IP#. 

   Done         Submit I-D: first version of Performance and Measuring. 

   Done         Submit I-D: revised version of Key Handling. 

   Done         Submit I-D: revised version of Servers Sharing IP#. 

   Done         Submit Root Server Requirements to the IESG for consideration 
                as Informational (BCP?). 

   Done         Submit I-D: 2nd revised version of Servers Sharing IP#. 

   Done         Distributing Authoritative Name Servers via Shared Unicast 
                Addresses to the IESG for Informational 

   Done         Submit Observed DNS Resolution Misbehavior to the IESG for 
                Informational 

   Jun 2004       Submit Identifying an Authoritative Name Server to IESG for 
                Informational 

   Jun 2004       Submit Requiring DNS IN-ADDR Mapping to IESG for BCP 

   Done         Submit document describing the outstanding problems and issues 
                with DNS discovery for IPv6 to the IESG for Informational. 

   Sep 2004       Submit Requirements for Automated Key Rollover in DNSsec to 
                IESG for Informational 

   Done         Submit DNS Response Size Issues to IESG for Informational 

   Done         Submit Operational Guidelines for 'local' zones in the DNS to 
                IESG. Category to be determined. 

   Oct 2004       Submit Operational Considerations and Issues with IPv6 DNS to 
                the IESG for Informational 

   Done         Submit Common Misbehavior against DNS Queries for IPv6 
                Addresses to the IESG for Informational 

   Jan 2005       Submit DNSSEC Operational Procedures to IESG for BCP 


 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised         I-D Title   <Filename>
------ ------- --------------------------------------------
Nov 2001 Apr 2006   <draft-ietf-dnsop-bad-dns-res-06.txt>
                Observed DNS Resolution Misbehavior 

May 2002 Jun 2006   <draft-ietf-dnsop-serverid-07.txt>
                Requirements for a Mechanism Identifying a Name Server Instance 

Jun 2003 Aug 2006   <draft-ietf-dnsop-respsize-05.txt>
                DNS Referral Response Size Issues 

Oct 2003 Mar 2006   <draft-ietf-dnsop-dnssec-operational-practices-08.txt>
                DNSSEC Operational Practices 

May 2006 Jun 2006   <draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-01.txt>
                Preventing Use of Nameservers in Reflector Attacks 

Jun 2006 Jun 2006   <draft-ietf-dnsop-default-local-zones-00.txt>
                Locally-served Zones 

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------
RFC2870BCP  Jun 2000    Root Name Server Operational Requirements 

RFC3258 I    Apr 2002    Distributing Authorittative Name Servers via Shared 
                       Unicast Addresses 

RFC3901BCP  Sep 2004    DNS IPv6 transport operational guidelines 

RFC4074 I    May 2005    Common Misbehavior against DNS Queries for IPv6 
                       Addresses 

RFC4339 I    Feb 2006    IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information 
                       Approaches 

RFC4472 I    Apr 2006    Operational Considerations and Issues with IPv6 DNS