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- Editor's Note: Revised minutes 9/4/92
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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Win Treese/DEC
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- Minutes of the Domain Name System Working Group (DNS)
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- Win Treese chaired the meeting, as the regular Chair, Mike Reilly, could
- not attend.
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- Agenda
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- o The proposed DNS MIB. (Jon Saperia, DEC)
- o The NSAP resource record proposal. (RFC1348)
- o Possible guidelines for the assignment of names in top-level
- domains. (Mike St. Johns, Dept. of Defense)
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- DNS MIB
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- Jon Saperia handed out copies of the Internet Draft DNS MIB, which had
- previously been sent to the namedroppers mailing list. Jon had made
- several changes based on comments from the meeting in San Diego. There
- were a few minor comments, which Jon agreed to incorporate.
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- There was some discussion of whether or not SNMP should be used to
- update authoritative date in a server. Jon Saperia and Rob Austein
- pointed out that this is a hard problem. Adding a new host, for
- example, involves adding new address and pointer records, and possibly
- HINFO and MX records. Should the server store the updated information
- in its permanent database? How are all replicas updated? Is the update
- protocol atomic for all replicas? Is it atomic at a single replica?
- How are changes authenticated and authorized?
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- The Group awaits a proposal on updates; the MIB will be moved forward as
- it is now.
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- NSAP Resource Records
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- Bill Manning presented RFC1348, which proposes new resource records for
- NSAPs to support RFC1347 (the TUBA proposal). There were some minor
- suggestions for modifications to the proposal. We also discussed having
- a wildcard address query for any type of addresses. The Group concluded
- that it was best not to create a new class for extended addresses of any
- type, since the class mechanisms are not well-understood in practice.
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- Naming Guidelines
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- Mike St. Johns proposed establishing some naming guidelines for the
- top-level domains (e.g., COM, EDU), because they are growing quite
- rapidly, and may eventually overwhelm the capabilities of both humans
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- and computers to use them. There was quite a bit of discussion on this
- issue, but very little was resolved. A detailed proposal of guidelines
- is probably needed to further the discussion.
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- Attendees
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- Robert Austein sra@epilogue.com
- David Borman dab@cray.com
- Lida Carrier lida@apple.com
- Walter Lazear lazear@gateway.mitre.org
- Bill Manning bmanning@rice.edu
- Michael Patton map@lcs.mit.edu
- Mike St. Johns stjohns@umd5.umd.edu
- Jon Saperia saperia@tcpjon.ogo.dec.com
- Win Treese treese@crl.dec.com
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