CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Michael Reilly/DEC DNS Minutes Administration We began this meeting of the DNS Working Group by discussing administrative details. The group decided to merge the current DNS Working Group mailing list with the namedroppers mailing list. (This was completed during the week following the Atlanta meeting.) The proposed DNS Working Group charter was discussed and resulted in a decision to state the operational and protocol goals of the Working Group in separate paragraphs. This will serve to emphasize both aspects of the charter. The working group has begun an examination of some of the security aspects of the DNS. In working with this sensitive information, many questions were raised. It was noted by some WG members that this type of information has not been made widely available in the past. It was asked whether there were any existing Internet or IETF policies either limiting or encouraging wide dissemination of this type of security information. The WG Chair will attempt to answer this question and will edit the proposed charter as appropriate. An edited version of the charter will be posted to the namedroppers mailing list before the end of August. Splitting the DNS Working Group A proposal to split the current DNS Working Group into two separate groups was discussed. The proposal calls for a WG responsible for the operational aspects of the DNS in the Internet and a second WG responsible for additions and changes to the existing DNS RFC's (aka a protocol group). The members of the Working Group present felt that the current group should not be split. It was noted that should the Working Group be split the membership of each new group would consist mostly of the members of the current DNS WG. It was also noted that commitments to other Working Groups may prevent many from attending two DNS related Working Groups. Current Operational Problems The Working Group then began discussions of problems which have been observed in the operation of the DNS in recent months. As a part of this discussion Philip Almquist spent a few minutes presenting an overview of the changes he has made to the current version of BIND (4.8.3) to solve some of the more critical problems. Philip is engaged in a project to produce a version of BIND which closely follows the DNS RFC's while being more robust and easier to configure than the current version. All of his work is based on the freely available BIND source code released by the University of California at Berkeley. The results of Philip's work will also be freely available. Philip expects his version of BIND (current known as BIND version 4.8.4) to begin beta testing in September or October. 1 A DNS MIB Joseph Peck presented his ``strawman'' proposal of the DNS information which should be made available via SNMP. Several useful comments and suggestions were made by members of the Working Group concerning the contents of a DNS MIB as well as a proposal for organizing the MIB into a generic and an implementation specific portion. A revised proposal will be posted to the mailing list within a few weeks. Several WG members expressed an interest in working on the MIB document itself. This effort will be organized via the mailing list as soon as the revised proposal has been discussed. Several people suggested that the DNS MIB may need to contain variables which should be ``settable'' i.e., ``flush the cache'' or ``reload the database from permanent storage''. The revised proposal mentioned above will include a separate section of these settable variables. A proposal for the DNS MIB is expected to be presented at the next IETF meeting. Attendees Philip Almquist almquist@jessica.stanford.edu Stevan Belair swbelair@sprintf.merit.edu Thomas Brisco brisco@rutgers.edu Mats Brunell mats.brunell@sics.se Stephen Crocker crocker@tis.com John Curran jcurran@bbn.com James Ellis jte@cert.sei.cmu.edu Johnny Eriksson bygg@sunet.se Erik Fair fair@apple.com Russ Hobby rdhobby@ucdavis.edu Steven Holt Alton Hoover hoover@nis.ans.net Tim Howes Tim.Howes@umich.edu. Tom Kessler kessler@sun.com Darren Kinley kinley@crim.ca Richard Larkin rblarkin@sprintf.merit.edu Walter Lazear lazear@gateway.mitre.org John Lekashman lekash@nas.nasa.gov Louis Leon osll@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu Louis Mamakos louie@ni.umd.edu Bill Manning bmanning@rice.edu April Marine april@nisc.sri.com Paul Mockapetris pvm@darpa.mil Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu Michael Patton map@lcs.mit.edu Joe Peck peck@ms1.pa.dec.com Jon Postel postel@isi.edu Michael Reilly reilly@nsl.dec.com Jan Michael Rynning jmr@nada.kth.se Jonathan Saperia saperia@tcpjon.enet.dec.com Erik Sherk sherk@nmc.cit.cornell.edu Keld Simonsen keld.simonsen@dkuug.dk 2 Bernhard Stockman boss@sunet.se Glenn Trewitt trewitt@nsl.dec.com Rudiger Volk rv@informatik.uni-dortmund.de 3