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- This is only a rough draft - Megan 04/20/92
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- Minutes of the IETF Domain Name System (DNS) Working Group
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- Meeting Date: March 18th, 1992
- Location: San diego, California
- Submitted by: Michael Reilly, DNS WG cahir
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- The announced purpose of the DNS working group meeting held at the San Diego
- IETF meeting was to discuss the DNS MIB proposed by Jon Saperia. A draft
- of the proposed MIB was circulated on the namedroppers mailing list
- approximately two weeks before the San Diego meeting.
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- The meeting opened with a proposal from Mike St. Johns that the WG write a
- policy statement describing the addition of subdomains to one of the
- existing top level domains. The policy would help answer such questions as
- "Should elementary and/or high schools be included in the EDU domain?" or
- "Should all businesses, regardless of size be subdomains of the COM
- domain?". He proposed that we work with Jon Postel to insure that domains
- which didn't meet the criteria for inclusion within a domain would be
- registered in a more general domain. Mike indicated that the MIL domain
- already had such a policy statement. He was asked to send a copy to the
- namedroppers mailing list as a starting point for further discussions. On
- behalf of the DNS WG, the WG chair will ask the IESG for help in determining
- if this is something we should pursue.
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- As we began discussion of the proposed MIB Rob Austein passed around copies
- of an alternative proposal. Since this new proposal had not previously
- been circulated the WG was not able compare it with the original proposal.
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- Much of the meeting was taken up by a discussion of the differences between
- the two documents. At the conclusion of the discussion the WG asked if a
- single proposal could be produced incorporating features of both of the
- original proposals. Rob and Jon agreed to work on a common proposal which
- they both could support.
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- Since the WG meeting the principle authors of the two MIB proposals have
- been Working together to resolve the differences between the proposals.
- It is expected that a revised proposal will be ready for discussion at the
- next WG meeting. Any remaining differences will be worked out at that time.
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